But the
might-have-been is but boggy ground to build
on. And , certainly, in tr foresight as with respect to the large larger issue of an
encounter, and anxious anxious preparations for it—
sounding and buoying the perilous deadly deadly way and
mapping it out, as at Copenhagen—few
commanders have been so painstakingly
circumspec circumspect as this re same unrecking reckless reckless ^ declarer
of his person in battle fi in fight.
Personal prudence even when
dictated by quite other than selfish considerations
surely is no special virtue in a military
man; while an excessive such as was Nelson's love of glory,
energizing to impassioning a less vital burning impulse the utter most the honest his the honest
heart-felt English sense of duty, is the first.
If the name of Wellington is not so
much of a trumpet to the blood as the simpler
might-have-been is but boggy ground to build
on. And , certainly, in tr foresight as with respect to the large larger issue of an
encounter, and anxious anxious preparations for it—
sounding and buoying the perilous deadly deadly way and
mapping it out, as at Copenhagen—few
commanders have been so painstakingly
circumspec circumspect as this re same unrecking reckless reckless ^ declarer
of his person in battle fi in fight.
Personal prudence even when
dictated by quite other than selfish considerations
surely is no special virtue in a military
man; while an excessive such as was Nelson's love of glory,
energizing to impassioning a less vital burning impulse the utter most the honest his the honest
heart-felt English sense of duty, is the first.
If the name of Wellington is not so
much of a trumpet to the blood as the simpler
But the
might-have-been is but boggy ground to build
on. And , certainly, in tr foresight as with respect to the large larger issue of an
encounter, and anxious anxious preparations for it—
sounding and buoying the perilous deadly deadly way and
mapping it out, as at Copenhagen—few
commanders have been so painstakingly
circumspec circumspect as this re same unrecking reckless reckless ^ declarer
of his person in battle fi in fight.
Personal prudence even when
dictated by quite other than selfish considerations
surely is no special virtue in a military
man; while an excessive such as was Nelson's love of glory,
energizing to impassioning a less vital burning impulse the utter most the honest his the honest
heart-felt English sense of duty, is the first.
If the name of Wellington is not so
much of a trumpet to the blood as the simpler
might-have-been is but boggy ground to build
on. And , certainly, in tr foresight as with respect to the large larger issue of an
encounter, and anxious anxious preparations for it—
sounding and buoying the perilous deadly deadly way and
mapping it out, as at Copenhagen—few
commanders have been so painstakingly
circumspec circumspect as this re same unrecking reckless reckless ^ declarer
of his person in battle fi in fight.
Personal prudence even when
dictated by quite other than selfish considerations
surely is no special virtue in a military
man; while an excessive such as was Nelson's love of glory,
energizing to impassioning a less vital burning impulse the utter most the honest his the honest
heart-felt English sense of duty, is the first.
If the name of Wellington is not so
much of a trumpet to the blood as the simpler
Transcribed by: John Bryant