The multiplication of military works is at once the sign, the necessity, and the evil of the present age - the necessity, because professional knowledge is now happily a condition of the tenure of a commission in the army of the Queen and the east-india Company - the evil, because it neither corresponds with the means nor the convenience of the great body of ofiicers that they should be burthened with a voluminous library.

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