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PGCJ.768.003
9 Jan 1768:11,12 (209)
Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania
To such a wonderful degree were the antient Spartans, as
brave 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 . . .
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