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the day and hour for takghis degree his callg to have e; suppose the day of battle tohave arrived, when they vest hi with the doctor&039;s cap ade of lt,to nd bullet-hole, perhaps, that has gone through histeples, or left hi with a crippled ar or leg or if this does nothappen, and rciful heaven watches over hi and keeps hi safe andund, it ay be he will be the sa poverty he was before,and he t go through ore engants and ore battles, and evictorio out of all before he betters hiself; but iracles ofthat rt are seldo seen for tell , sirs, if you have everreflected upon it, by how uch do those who have gaed by war fallshort of the nuber of those who have peri射d it? no doubt youwill reply that there can be no par, that the dead cannot benubered, while the livg who have been rewarded ay be sud uith three figures all which is the reverse the case of n ofletters; for by skirts, to say nothg of sleeves, they all fd anf support; that though the ldier has ore to endure, hisreward is uch less but agast all this it ay be urd that it iseasier to reward o thoand ldiers, for the forr ay bereunerated by givg the places, which t perforce be nferredupon n of their callg, while the latter can only be repensedout of the very property of the aster they serve; but thisipossibility only strengthens y argunt

&ot;puttg this, however, aside, for it is a puzzlg estion forwhich it is difficult to fd a tion, let return to thesuperiority of ars over letters, a atter still undecided, anyare