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1 12| OF BOLDNESS~It is a trivial grammar– 2 12| Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what 3 12| civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? 4 12| what second and third? boldness. And yet boldness is a child 5 12| third? boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance 6 12| action, than soon after; for boldness is an ill keeper of promise. 7 12| they have the perfection of boldness) they will but slight it 8 12| and to the vulgar also, boldness has somewhat of the ridiculous. 9 12| doubt you not but great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. 10 12| well to be weighed; that boldness is ever blind; for it seeth 11 55| strange thing to see, that the boldness of advocates should prevail