Of a General, and a Colonel, and Army.
A General of a hundred thousand men, sounds loud in the ears of the world; when a Captain of a Brigade, is hard∣ly taken notice of, although his conduct in ordering his Brigade,
The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.
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- The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.
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- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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- 1655.
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hath been as skilful, and as prudent, and his Courage and his Onset as daring as the Generals; yet such advantages and ods hath numbers, as it makes great reckoning in the World, when the Actions of a few are never measured.