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GG(J.768.014
10 Feb 1768:11,12,21 (229)
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of
the British Colonies. Letter III.
. . . [near bottom of 1st column]
To such a wonderful degree were the antient Spartans, as
brace and free a people as ever existed, inspired by this
happy temperature of soul, that rejecting even in their
battles the use of trumpets, and other instruments for
exciting heat and rage, they marched up to scenes of havock
and horror with the sound of flutes, to the tunes of which,
their steps kept pace--"exhibiting," as Plutarch says, "at
once a terrible and delightful sight, . . . [signed] A
Farmer
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