SKETCHES

OF THE

HISTORY OF MAN.

VOLUME II.

Printed for W. CREECH, Edinburgh; and for
W. STRAHAN, and T. CADELL, London,

MDCCLXXIV.

SKETCHES

OF THE

HISTORY OF MAN.

BOOK II.

Progress of MEN in SOCIETY.

SKETCH IX.

MILITARY Branch of GOVERNMENT.

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URING the infancy of a nation, every member depends on his own industry for procuring the neceffaries of life he is his own mafon, his own tailor, his own phyfician; and on himself he chiefly relies for offence as well as defence. Every favage can fay, what few beggars among us can say, Omnia mea mecum porto; and hence the aptitude

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