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For, my Lord, 'tis in Knowledge as in War; Open Places are easily taken in, and Towns not strongly fortified make but a weak Resistance; but where Art and Nature conspire to render any Fortress impregnable; it must be won by the most powerful Assaults, and noblest Resolution. Brussels and Louvain are easy Conquests, they do not so much resist, as admit the Victor; but if the Duke of Marlborough, or Prince Eugene had expected other Towns would have made them the same Complements, Lisle had still remained to the French, and Mons, and Tournay might still have been thought im-