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IT is a perillous weakness in a State, to be slow of resolution in the time of Warr: To be irresolute in determina∣tion is both the sign, and the ruine of a weak State: such affairs attend not Time: Let the wise Statesman there∣fore abhor delay, and resolve rather what to do, than advise what to say: Slow deliberations are symptoms, either of a faint courage, or weak Forces, or false Hearts.