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| | Chapter 32 - Lannes |
 | | The parents of Lannes were poor, and intended him for some mechanical pursuit; but he listened only to his own martial temper, and at an early age enlisted into the army. |
 | | Lannes instantly sprung on the horse of an Austrian officer, killed the rider, placed himself firmly in the saddle, and fought his way through the cuirassiers, killing two or three, and severely wounding more. |
 | | Sometimes, indeed, Lannes could exhibit uncommon generosity; but he had no fixed principles, and being led by the impulses of a mind in which ferocity was strangely combined with grandeur, committed, or what is the same thing, allowed to be committed, many actions of a cruel, vindictive character. |
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