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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: one of that great poet's sonnets, was properly named Alister, or
Alexander M'Donnell, by birth a Scottish islesman, and related to
the Earl of Antrim, to whose patronage he owed the command
assigned him in the Irish troops. In many respects he merited
this distinction. He was brave to intrepidity, and almost to
insensibility; very strong and active in person, completely
master of his weapons, and always ready to show the example in
the extremity of danger. To counterbalance these good qualities,
it must be recorded, that he was inexperienced in military
tactics, and of a jealous and presumptuous disposition, which
often lost to Montrose the fruits of Colkitto's gallantry. Yet
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