Of National Characters (1748) [ Concepts ]
… set of men to converse often together, without acquiring a similitude of manners, and communicating to each other their vices as well as virtues. The propensity to company and society is strong in all rational creatures; and the same … promiscuously from among the citizens; but having once entertained a notion, that they were the best troops in the service, this very opinion really made them such. As a proof how much courage depends on opinion, we may observe, that, of …
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