Letter from a By-Stander to a Member of Parliament

Excerpt from A Letter From a by-Stander to a Member of Parliament: Wherein Is Examined What Necessity There Is for the Maintenance of a Large Regular Land-Force in This Island Applications of this hofiile Turn in fome, foon made them neceitary in all; and we'now fee the Face of Europe overfpread with military Grandeur; and immenfe Bodies of Men not call'd together as formerly, from the ploud to make any fudden Irruption, but confiantly main tained and kept apart for the Purpofes of War; their Time IS employed folely in Exercifes of this Sort, and they are trained up with exquifite' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.