...effeminate race of coxcombs, the future leaders of our armies, defenders and protectors of our great and free nation ! You bid me avoid Fort William, because...principles of an absolute commander, or giving way insensible to the temptations of power, till I become proud, insolent, and intolerable : — these...

...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother: " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiTOL....

...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother : " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment...

...writes to say that the motive which inspires him to apply for leave of absence is the desire to obtain a "change of conversation, the fear of becoming a mere...principles of an absolute commander, or giving way insensible to the temptations of power, till I become proud, insolent, and intolerable: — these considerations...

...writes to say that the motive which inspires him to apply for leave of absence is the desire to obtain a "change of conversation, the fear of becoming a mere...principles of an absolute commander, or giving way insensible to the temptations of power, till I become proud, insolent, and intolerable: — these considerations...