This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1780 Excerpt: ...Patience and Courage: of that true undaunted Fortitude, that inspires the real Hero, Who ajks no Omen, but bis Country's Cause. Distrust and Danger vanish at its Radiance: Constancy and indefatigable Perseverance crown it with the noblest Success, and with immortal Honour. Even the Weakness of constitutional Cowardice ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1780 Excerpt: ...Patience and Courage: of that true undaunted Fortitude, that inspires the real Hero, Who ajks no Omen, but bis Country's Cause. Distrust and Danger vanish at its Radiance: Constancy and indefatigable Perseverance crown it with the noblest Success, and with immortal Honour. Even the Weakness of constitutional Cowardice may be relieved by it, from a thousand anxious Fears: and raised, upon any extraordinary Occasion, into an absolute Disregard of all those unreal unreal Evils, which so swell the sickly List of Apprehension In Friendship, a mutual Confidence is of so absolute Necessity, that it is scarcely possible it should subsist, for any Time, without it. When once upon Reason, and Experience, we have given Persons an allowed Title to our Esteem, it is the highest Injury both to them, and to ourselves, to remove it upon less than an entire Certainty: and there are some Degrees of Esteem, that ought to outweigh the very strongest Appearances. In such Cases we should misdoubt all Judgments of our own, rather than suspect the Fidelity of a tried Friend: and never give it up till we have allowed them the fullest Opportunity for vindicating themselves, if Appearances have injured them. By this Means, nothing will remain perplexed or uneasy upon the anxious Mind, but every Thing will be fair, clear, and honest. When Truth is presupposed as the Foundation, this Dependence follows of Course, even when the Circumstances do not admit of a present Explanation. "Appearances "would give me Reason to be uneasy at "your Behaviour, if Friendfliip did not "forbid - forbid my suspecting you." "It is "very true: and I cannot yet explain those "Appearances."-What a World of Trouble, and Distrust, would such short Explanations ...
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