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tem, quàm tempeftiva abftinentia. Intemperantes homines apud nos, fibi cibi tempora, modum curantibus dant. Rurfus alii tempora medicis pro dono remittunt, fibi ipfis modum vendicant. Liberaliter agere fe credunt, qui cætera illorum arbitrio relinquunt, in genere cibi liberi funt; quafi quæratur, quid medico liceat, non quid ægro falutare fit: cui vehementer, nocet, quoties in ejus quod affumitur, vel tempore, vel modo, vel genere peccatur.

men, amongst us, chufe for them felves the feafonsof eating, and leave the quantity of their food to the phyficians. Others again compli ment the physicians with the times, but referve the quantity to their own determination. Thofe fancy themfelves to behave very genteely, who leave every thing elfe to the judg ment of the phyficians, but infift upon the liberty of chufing the kind of their food; as if the queftion was, what the phyfician has a right to do, not what may be falutary for the patient; who is greatly hurt, as often as he tranfgreffes in the time, measure, or quality of his food.

Whoever has fufficient leifure, and difpofition, for an attentive perufal of this work, must perceive it has cost the Tranf lator much time, care, and ftudy; while the competent, the candid, and unprejudiced, we imagine, will admit, upon the whole, that Dr. Grieve has fhewn himself a gentleman of literature and application. How neceflary an English tranflation may be thought by fome phyficians and furgeons of our days, is a different confideration: Since we may reasonably fuppofe, that from the addition of a few important articles to our Materia Medica; from the difcoveries in natural philofophy and anatomy; and from the augmented experience of time itself, phyfic and furgery are arrived at a ftate of greater maturity, than they had attained in the time of Celfus. We may venture, however, to affirm, that as many can now recur to him, who could not in the original, fo even fome phyficians may find many of thofe difficulties removed, or leffened, which have formerly rendered him lefs current. And as some reasonable practitioners may undoubtedly have experienced inconveniences from a more limited education, fuch will enjoy an opportunity of observing the state of phyfic and furgery, at, and before, his time; while every fenfible and ingenious reader must admire his candour and manliness, his excellent and diftinguishing judgment, (as often as it intervenes on difputable points) and his unaffected elegance. Neither can we fuppofe a tranflation of him as useless as fome may have fuggefted; fince we have accidentally learned, that an ingenious and emiREVIEW, Oct. 1756.

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nent operator has declared Celfus's method of reducing the luxated humerus (fee p. 510, 511) very adroit and eligible. For ourfelves, as we have a pretty adequate notion of the dif ficulty of this work, (which is extended to 519 pages, exclufive of the preface, contents, and index) and as we always intend that impartial and difinterested investigation of truth, which Celfus himself happily profeffes, in his Sine ambitione verum fcrutantibus, we cannot forbear giving Dr. Greive our atteftation of his having competently tranflated a truly valuable book, which has been defired by fome, may be useful to many, and which can injure no one, except its confequences fhould fail to reward himself, fufficiently. But if inftead of this, he fhall hereafter rencounter any cavilling brethren, who, regardless of its merit, fhall ungeneroully infift on, or even ag"gravate, a few trivial inaccuracies, he may refer them to the difficulties which the feveral reputable Editors of Celfus have confefledly experienced. He may pretty fecurely invite even themfelves to effect a better English translation than his own, entirely independent of it, and conclude, with Martial,dgjord Carpere vel noli noftra, vel ede tua. Toved Lydgor

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moitan 75ɗi INCE the example of other European nations feems to have rendered a standing army neceflary in our own, every attempt to improve on the discipline of our foldiers, ought to meet with a candid reception. True, indeed, it is, that alldifciplined forces may prove lefs dangerous to a free ftate, than a well-trained army; they may plague and injure particular perfons, but they will hardly be able to introduce a Stratocracy: yet, where the number of national troops is not great, and where men of independent fortunes fhare in the commanda foldier cannot know his duty too well, nor can fubordination be too much inculcated: as the conftitution will then run the lefs rifk.

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To enforce a ftricter difcipline, and reform fome parts of the exercife at prefent practiced by our regiments, is the fcope for, as our Author would call it, the point de vue) of this treatife; which, in every refpect, greatly furpaffes another, and much larger (*), work, lately published, pretty much on the fame fubject. For our Author has not only made fome pertine it obfervations himself, but has felected, from the best mi(*) The Target.

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litary books, in French, many valuable remarks: all which he has tranflated with a competent freedom of fpirit. An elegant (a) writer has faid, That Politicians and Generals have appearSed in all ages; yet, tho' the British nation has never been exceeded in the career of glory, the Author of the Cadet obferves, that a disappointed fearch for books of this kind, in our language, exonerates him from the guilt of plagiarifim 5from his countrymen. The lift of English writers on military difcipline is, indeed, not numerous; probably the just diffi dence which we have always entertained of a standing army, has occafioned their unfrequency; yet are we not fo deftitute of compofitions of this fort, as our Author would infinuate for, befides General Bland's excellent treatife on military difci pline, he would have found fome good materials in Lord Orrery's Art of War. The laft-mentioned book, indeed, is fearce; but it is to be met with (b) a dairy onlyptis

Nor has our Author confined his martial refearches to the moderns only. He has invaded the Roman territories, and brought fome claffic fpoils from Vegetius: yet would his performance, which may be confidered in the light of a military may be on its trophy, have loft nothing of its value, had it been enlarged with fome materials from Frontinus, Ruffus, Modeftus, Anonymus (de Rebus Bellicis), and particularly from Ælian. And tho' the French have wrote more on Tactics than any o ther nation, (Lewis XIV. being the first who put standing carmies on their prefent establishment) yet had our Officer trawerfed the Pyrenees and the Alps, he would have met with Spanish and Italian works, to recompence his labours: for, not to enumerate the military writings of Ludovicus Melzus, Flaminius sa Croce,o&ob General Count Bafta's Maefro di Campo Generale, and his Governo della Cavalleria Leg giadrags have not yet been exceeded. sd lliw or tud enoljeg bas Butothofo every military writer has not been confulted by sour Author, many have; and when we mention, that a pretty judicious felection has been made from the works of Puyfegur, Vauban, Follard, Turenne, the Duke de Rohan, and Marfhal Saxe (c), need more be faid to recommend the Cadet to the gentlemen of the army? The quotations are, in geSneral appropriated to the titles of the chapters, where our Author has pofted them and have a reference to our military bast (a) Voltaire. Asquul plasty footer pravo ni dow

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manœuvre (d): fometimes however they are wanting in both thefe refpects. Thus, for inftance, the following quotation from Marshal Puyfegur, (p. 52.) Moft regiments have culiar method (viz. of exercife) of their own, which muft neceffarily be, when they have no fixed and written regulation, to reform their different opinions, has no connection with us, who have ftated regulations for our exercife Again, the paffage from Vegetius, (p, 60) If the well-trained foldier is arduous for engagement, fo does the untaught fear it. Who will deny that difcipline is fuperior to ftrength? • If we neglect or defpife that difcipline, where will be the ⚫ difference between the foldier and the peasant?" had better have been arranged under his chapter, Of the neceffity of military difcipline, than where it is. Befides, fince his book was to be a collection of quotations, why felect a paffage from a modern, in which fome antient practice is recommended, and then quote the claffic afterwards (e), who has preferved that practice? Might not either of them have fufficed? Or rather, fhould not the antient have stood fingle? There is another thing, likewife, which we with had been attended to;-where quotations are pretty much detached from each other, ought not authorities to have been placed according to feniority? Yet, on the contrary, we here fee that great antient mafter of tactics, Vegetius, pofted in the rear of a Monf. Bombelles, or a Monf. d' Efpagnac.

But waving thefe fmall improprieties, which are, indeed, no material objections to the work, we fhall briefly confider that part of the Cadet which is more immediately our Author's own. It has often been remarked, that many of the British evolutions are not only infignificant, but impracticable, before an enemy: that fome of our methods of loading and lockingup, are fcarce to be preferved, even at a review: and that the fquare is very defective in its order, both no and marching, and dangerous for a retreat. To remedy thefe inconve niences, our Officer, in chap. vi. has propofed a new scheme of exercife, which fhall better wear the face of reality, by fuppofing an enemy in front, and varying the difpofition, as neceffity, or the fuppofed maneuvre of the enemy fhall re squire: It would lead us too far from our purpose, and amight not be be over acceptable to the generality of our readers, to give the whole of our Author's plan; we fhall there

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VIII. introduced with fome fenfible quotations from Puyfegur, recommending the Roman practice of officers commanding and charging at the head of their own companies. This is very practicable in the battalion, and would be pro

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