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BEP(F.758.021
17 Apr 1758:11,12,21 (1181)
Extract from the Monitor, or British Freeholder. No. CXXIX.
[Jan. 7.] . . . [11, para. 7] In the first place, the
statesmen are answerable to their country for the persons
they recommend to military [posts]; they know very well that
no man is fit for a commission, who does not make the life
of a soldier and the military art his chief care and study;.
. . Is it not a droll contrast to hear of a country whose
laws oblige an apprentice to serve seven years to make a
drum, and will permit vicious illiterate hectors, taken from
a herd of rakes or pampered beaus, instantaneously to
commence officers fit for their King and country ? . . .
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