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NG.778.021
14 May 1778:11,12,13,21 (2/69)
Reflections upon the military preparations which are making
at present in Scotland. (Said to be written by Sir John
Dalrymple.)
. . . [Discussion of motives behind raising troops,
including the following references:]
[:11] When Quin, the player, while acting the part of
Agamemnon, was told that he had drawn tears from the eyes of
the field Marischal Duke of Argyle, he answered, "His grace
would fight nothing the worse for that."
[:21] Sir Adolphus Oughton, not a new, but an old soldier,
who gained his rank and his ribbon by fighting, not by
recruiting; and at the first beat of whose drum, although he
is no Scotsman, many thousands in Scotland would start up to
follow wherever he and honor led the way.
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