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th'e whole firft rank of the enemy : And when it did not kill, it 

 embarrafled the enemy fo much by flicking in their fliields, that 

 the Helvetii, in the battle which they fought with Julius, threw 

 away their Ihields, and fought without that defence. Then they 

 had the perfed ufe of the fword, with which they may be faid to 

 have conquered the world ; but of which our foldiers have no ufe at 

 all. And, accordingly, cur foot foldiers do not now carry any 

 fword, though formerly they did ; and our horfemen, though they 

 wear a fword, do not, I am afraid, make the ufe of it they fhould 

 do. I therefore think, that our foldiers fhould praclife other exer- 

 cifes, befides their military, in order to give them a good habit of 

 body, and to prevent the great deilrudion of them by difeafe, great- 

 er, as I have obferved *, than by the Iwoid of the enemy. 



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