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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: more - that it was answerable to the greatness of his life.
Thus he walked in dignity, guards of soldiers sometimes
attending him in his walks, subalterns bowing before his
periwig; and when he uttered his thoughts they were suitable
to his state and services. On February 8, 1668, we find him
writing to Evelyn, his mind bitterly occupied with the late
Dutch war, and some thoughts of the different story of the
repulse of the Great Armada: "Sir, you will not wonder at the
backwardness of my thanks for the present you made me, so
many days since, of the Prospect of the Medway, while the
Hollander rode master in it, when I have told you that the
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