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answer the arguments employed to prove, that Richard is superior to Macbeth in personal courage. Equal, not to say superior, firmness under equal trials, will refute some of them; some will be invalidated by showing that the carriage objected to in Macbeth, as a proof of timidity, is precisely the same as that of Richard in like circumstances; and some, it will be made appear, rest altogether on careless misstatement of fact, or mere misapprehension of sentiment
Because Macbeth is not more pusillanimous than Richard, it will not, it may be said, conclusively follow, that he is a brave man: This is true: But this could not be objected
