Original sentence: Gustavus owed much of his success as an empire-builder to the religious and patriotic zeal of the Swedes, and their willingness to sacrifice
Edited sentence: And to the honour of the Swedish people be it said that, from first to last, they showed a religious and patriotic zeal which shrank from no sacrifice.It was to this national devotion quite as much as to his own qualities that Gustavus owed his success as an empire-builder