Other related topics at: Money 201. Soldiers; Supply and Value The peculiar respect paid to the military character in France was mentioned. Boswell: "I should think that where military men are so numerous, they would be less valued as not being rare." Johnson: "Nay, Sir, wherever a particular character or profession is high in the estimation of a people, those who are of it will be valued above other men. We value an Englishman highly in this country, and yet Englishman are not rare in it." Boswell: Life Link