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 a few Years (40) (viz. from four to fix Years) acquired a fixt dislike and contempt for those useful employments by which they were formerly enabled (whilst a mere militia) to earn their bread, so that they now acknowledged no profession but that of arms, and consequently were now become a regular standing army of mercenaries, with a separate interest of their own from the rest of the nation (41); and a standing