There is fomething fo irrefiftibly bewitch- 
ing in perfonal courage, that we have hardly 
an inftance of a truly brave General or Ad- 
miral, who was not adored by every foldier, 
or failor, under his command. Shakefpeare, 
who was no novice in the knowledge of hu- 
man nature, makes the young and beautiful 
Defdemona violently enamoured of a gallant 
foldier, a Moor, and already 
declined 
Into the vale of years. 
But, fays this amiable heroine, 
Ifaw Othello's vij/age in his mind. 
And to his honours and his 'ualliant parts 
"Did I my foul and fortunes confecrate. 
Ariftotle, if I remember right, in his Ethics, 
afligns to Courage the firft place in his enu- 
meration of moral virtues; and with rea- 
fon; for there is nothing more precarious 
than the virtue of a coward : he (brinks at 
the approach of danger or difficulty, and 
yields to temptation, for want of refolution 
to refift it. The beft proof of a man's real 
Courage., is to dare, in every fituation, to 
be juft to his own principles, to himfelf, to 
his 
