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Som E perhaps may be of opinion, that the Maxims of the prefent Age, which forbid Kings to appear in Perfon at the head of Armies, and injoin them rather to delegate their Power to others, render military Talents leis neceitary in the Rulers of Nations. But tho' this be in reality a very wife Policy, and excellently calculated to prevent thofe unjull Wars, which have no other Foundation but the perfonal Ambition and Glory of Princes, yet does it by no means difpenfe with the Obligation of applying to the Study of Arms. The due modelling of the Army, the introducing a preper Difcipline among the Troops, and the Difpofal of military Preferments, are intirely in the Email of.
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