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Vol. i. p. 447, 448.
10
Vol. ii. p. 298.
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It would seem that Charles II. would have surprised him, on one occasion, in the company of the Countess; but, to save her credit with the King, he leaped through the window at the risk of his life; in return for which she presented him with £5000. With reference to this latter part of the business may be noted a diversity between two of Marlborough's biographers. Archdeacon Coxe ludicrously attempts to explain this splendid present of £5000, on the ground of Churchill's being in some way
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Macaulay, 256, note.
13
Alison, i. 22.
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Mahon, i. 21, 22.
15
Lectures in Modern History, delivered in the University of Cambridge, (Lecture xxiii.)
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Alison, ii. p. 300.
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"Even the great William," says Professor Smyth, "trained up amid a life of difficulties and war, with an intrepid heart and a sound understanding, was able only to stay the enterprises of Louis; successfully to resist, but not to humble him. It was for Marlborough to teach that unprincipled monarch the danger of ambition, and the instability of human grandeur; it was for Marlborough to disturb his dreams of pleasure and of pride, by filling them with spectres of terror and images of desolation." The lecture from which this is taken is well worthy of a careful perusal.
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Alison, ii. p. 347.
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In Sir James Stephen's
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Alison, i. p. 108.
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Alison, i. p. 92-3.
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Alison, i. p. 125.
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Alison, i. p. 159.
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Alison, i. 247.
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Alison, i. 277, 278.
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Alison, i. 406.
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Alison, i. 448.
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Alison, ii. 125.
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Alison, vol. ii. p. 185, note.
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Alison, ii. 199, 200.
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Alison, ii. 263, note.
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Alison, ii. p. 305.
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Marlborough had received the sacrament with great solemnity at the midnight preceding the day of the battle of Blenheim; and shortly before, divine service had been performed at the head of every regiment and squadron in the Allied army. After the battle he said, that "he had prayed to God more frequently during its continuance than all the chaplains of both armies put together which served under his orders." —
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Alison, i. 14, 15, note.
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Alison, i. 211, note.
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A very happy idea is embodied in a work recently published, and which has quickly reached a second edition – Mr Creasy's