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half-confessing, the guessing, lying, deceitful, 
the palavering equivocation 4 , squeamishness, 
and nonsense of “ don't know," many disasters ori- 
ginate. Stammering, hackering 4 — and so forth; 
it’s shameful to relate! A soldier should be 
sound, brave, firm, decisive, true, honourable ! 
— Pray to God ! from him comes victory and 
miracles ! God conducts us ! God is our Ge- 
neral! — For the “ I don't know,” an officer is put 
in the guard — A staff-officer is served with an 
arrest at home. Instruction is light / Not in- 
struction is darkness / The work fears its master ! 4 * 
— If a peasant knows not how to plough, the 
corn will not grow ! One wise man is worth 
three fools ! and even three are little, give six ! 
and even six are little 8 , give ten ! One clever 
fellow will beat them all — overthrow them — 
and take them prisoners ! 
In the last campaign, the enemy lost 75,000 
well-counted men — perhaps not much less than 
(4) The words here are, some of them, not to be translated, and 
seem to be the coinage of his own fancy. The Russians themselves 
cannot affix an explication to them. 
(5) A Russian proverb. 
(6) Here Suvorof is a little in his favourite character of the buffoon. 
He generally closed his harangues by endeavouring to excite laughter 
among his troops ; and this mode of forming a climax is a peculiar 
characteristic of the conversation of the Russian Boors. In this man- 
ner : “And not only of the Boors, tut the Gentry ! — and not only of the 
Gentry, hut the Nobles! — and not only of the Nobles, hut the Emperor 
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