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Rh more importance than a personal quarrel; he therefore persisted in his purpose, by saying, "strike, again, if you will but hear me." And—let us not omit the Great Captain of the age, who is eminently distinguished by this virtue in the field: but if the appeal is to those that wore the diadem, and more especially to our own annals, it becomes difficult to name any monarch in the list, from Egbert the Great, excepting Alfred, and (perhaps) Edward VI., worthy of being placed with George 3rd at the same elevation in the temple of honour. Charles II. being ungovernably incensed, on an occasion totally different, and by no means reputable, has never been acquitted of participating in the murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey; and the