Mere bull-dog resolution and endurance is here lifted, by a generous ardor of soul, into something other than a passive virtue.

The elasticity of spirit which it shows might be trained to any performance within the compass of human endowment.
*1* Two ships of fifty guns; five of twenty-eight; 1 of twenty-six and a bomb-vessel.

Moultrie, vol.1 pp.

174-5.
*2* Weems says 100.

*3* British account.
*4* Moultrie, Memoirs, Vol.