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BEP(F.768.005
11 Jan 1768:11 (1685 Supplement)
[Within Letter III. from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the
inhabitants of the British colonies]. . . 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 battels
the use of trumpets, and other instruments, for excititing
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. . . [continues for 2 more columns]
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