1 I 1. The fuperior Excellency :a n1an hazard his honour, as well as other things, ·when occafi..0n calls for it. !\low, if the celebrated actions of the · Heathens con1e ihort oftrue cout;age, .what fuall we fay of the furious boldnefs of the Hectors ofour age, who pretend to prowefs and gallantry by far lds reafonable n1e- · thods? when, blinded with p~ffion, and a– nimated with wine, they are ready enough, on hs.lfa quarr·el, tohazard their own, and their neighbour's life, and foul too, ina duel? they will not fl:and to brave heaven itfelf, and to provoke the Al1nighty by their horrid oaths and blafphe1nies. And one fuould think, that thei'e mufl: needs be the hardiefl: and moft valiant people in the world , if they are not afrard of the Almigh– ty, fure nothing elfe fuould fright thetn. And yet you fhall find thofe very perfons, when cafl: on a bed by fiicknefs, or brought to the fcaffold by juftice, to betray a mife– rable faintnefs and pufillanimity : they are forced now to think on the terrors of death, and the n1ore terrible confequences of it; · and their counterfeit courage, being defH- , . tute of thofe props which forn1erly fufl:ain– ed. it, cloth now difcover its weaknefs. Nor is it any ' wonder: for what !hquld make a ·.n1an .,
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