... College, and though he attended Cambridge for a short time, he realized his aptitude lay in military service when he joined the Grenadier Guards at age eighteen. He inherited the family title in his early twenties, becoming a member of the House of Lords. His uncle was a general, and his brother William served in the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary War, so there ... leader was much like that of George Washington. He was completely committed to being a soldier. The military was his life, not just a profession. He did not believe in conceit, or a title, accepting as true that reputati...

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In the subject of the previous sketch, our attention was directed to one whom native tendencies and favoring circumstances so combined to lead to the chosen pursuit, that her engagement in it was, from childhood, almost a ... there was no one of her own sex to whom she and other like sufferers could resort for treatment. There were women who had assumed the medical title, but without authority, and with little claim to confidence. Most of them, also, were of disreputable character, and their practice not only unreliable, ... Blackwell's abilities, and knowing that she had yet no settled aim i...

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