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Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original Sources

Note 620 — Chapter XXXIX · THE ARMY AND NAVY.

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The 'Officer and Gentleman' hardly went together; the rough life of the camp told, and almost all contemporary writers agree in painting him as a swaggering, dicing bully. Farquhar's description[620] will serve for all:—

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