"'Tis a question which is the greatest.
They are men of a very different stamp.

Tilly is a soldier, and nothing but a soldier, save that he is a fanatic in religion.

He is as cruel as he is brave, and as portentously ugly as he is cruel.
"Wallenstein is a very different man.

He has enormous ambition and great talent, and his possessions are so vast that he is a dangerous subject for any potentate, even the most powerful.

Curiously enough, he was born of Protestant parents, but when they died, while he was yet a child, he was committed to the care of his uncle, Albert Slavata, a Jesuit, and was by him brought up a strict Catholic.