SECT. II.

OF COURAGE AND TIMIDITY

l. Courage is the happy result of consitutution and reflection.

2. No qualification whatever can supply the want of courage in a military person.

3. He is the greatest hero who triumphs over himself.

4. Spirit and zeal give life to the service.
5. There can be no true valour, where there is no public spirit.

6. The more confident a man is of his own power and capacity, with so much the greater resolution he will act.

7. Confidence of success begets resolution.

8. The more that private men can be brought to hold their enemy in contempt, the more resolute they become.

9. Knowledge of support re-animates the man.

l0. Nothing is to be omitted which can invigorate men to a discharge of their duty.

ll. No difficulty seems invincible to the resolute.

l2. Motion giveds spirit as well as force.

l3. That which serves to encourage one man, will serve to intimidate his opponent at the same time.

l4. Nothing makes a man more vigilant than the apprehension of danger.

l5. All men will shun danger where there is no incentive.

l6. Nothing propagates fear more than darkness and suprize.

l7. Of all the senses, none more effectually disturbs the mind, agitates the passions, and subverts the understanding, than that of the hearing.

l8. The best troops, if not properly prepared and disposed, are liable to panics.

l9. Nothing can dishearten a man more, than a knowledge or supposition of his not being upon equal terms with his adversary.