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Dedication.
Republic ſo happily ſituated, could have nothing to fear but from itſelf; and therefore, if its Members made Arms their Study, it muſt be rather with a View of keeping alive that martial Ardour, and that generous Spirit, which become Liberty ſo well, and ſerve to maintain a due Reliſh for it, than thro' any Neceſſity of providing for their Defence.
I ſhould have ſought out for a Country, where the Legiſlative Power was common to all its Inhabitants; for who can be ſuppoſed to know better than the Members of a Society, upon what Terms it is propereſt for them to
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