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 life of a modern oldier is ill repreented by heroick fiction. War has means of detruction more formidable than the cannon and the word. Of the thouands and ten thouands that perihed in our late contets with France and Spain, a very mall part ever felt the troke of an enemy; the ret languihed in tents and hips, amidt damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, piritles, and helples; gaping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeles miery; and were at lat whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholeome tations, where courage is ueles, and enterprie impracticable, fleets are ilently dipeopled, and armies luggihly melted away.

is a people gradually exhauted, for the mot part with little effect. The wars of civilized nations make very low changes in