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... peace . There certainly had been campaigns of more or less importance beyond the seas , chiefly in India , but native troops were mainly employed and little or no strain had been put on the Home VOL . LVII - No . 335 B Army , which had ...
... peace . There certainly had been campaigns of more or less importance beyond the seas , chiefly in India , but native troops were mainly employed and little or no strain had been put on the Home VOL . LVII - No . 335 B Army , which had ...
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... peace was proclaimed in 1815 the lessons of that war were very soon for- gotten , and the Supply and Transport Department was reduced to a minimum . Matters , indeed , were allowed to drift to such an extent that when the Crimean War ...
... peace was proclaimed in 1815 the lessons of that war were very soon for- gotten , and the Supply and Transport Department was reduced to a minimum . Matters , indeed , were allowed to drift to such an extent that when the Crimean War ...
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... peace time . An increase was sanctioned in 1871 , and was gradually continued until 1891 , when the present number of sixty - four was reached . But this number is altogether inadequate for home and Indian requirements , and it is very ...
... peace time . An increase was sanctioned in 1871 , and was gradually continued until 1891 , when the present number of sixty - four was reached . But this number is altogether inadequate for home and Indian requirements , and it is very ...
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... peace the difficulty was felt to be almost as great , in consequence of more than half the Army being stationed abroad under active - service conditions . In deciding on extending to the whole of the Infantry the double - battalion ...
... peace the difficulty was felt to be almost as great , in consequence of more than half the Army being stationed abroad under active - service conditions . In deciding on extending to the whole of the Infantry the double - battalion ...
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... peace can never be made up again during the stress of a campaign . I hold this view very strongly , and would urge my fellow - countrymen with all the force at my command to look plain facts in the face . We are now , as regards India ...
... peace can never be made up again during the stress of a campaign . I hold this view very strongly , and would urge my fellow - countrymen with all the force at my command to look plain facts in the face . We are now , as regards India ...
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Page 400 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 365 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Page 503 - I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Page 53 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 53 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Page 53 - ... or the greater part of them, shall take order from time to time, by and with the consent of two or more such Justices of Peace as is aforesaid...
Page 75 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also **. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Page 365 - It is but too true, that the love, and even the very idea, of genuine liberty is extremely rare. It is but too true that there are many whose whole scheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverseness, and insolence. They feel themselves in a state of thraldom, they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man or some body of men dependent on their mercy.
Page 366 - Protestant cobbler, debased by his poverty, but exalted by his share of the ruling church, feels a pride in knowing it is by his generosity alone that the peer whose footman's instep he measures is able to keep his chaplain from a jail.
Page 500 - In case neither of the high contracting parties should have notified twelve months before the expiration of the said ten years the intention of terminating it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the high contracting parties...