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... soldier is brave and a lawyer is learned ; but in Rome , " says he , " the soldier was learned and the lawyer was brave - every man was brave . " Now I think that with us every man is brave . Courage is more universally spread through ...
... soldier is brave and a lawyer is learned ; but in Rome , " says he , " the soldier was learned and the lawyer was brave - every man was brave . " Now I think that with us every man is brave . Courage is more universally spread through ...
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... soldier to distinguish himself ; in the other , the least . To rise from the ranks was , in the French army , an occurrence of every day . The commonest soldier could not obey a field - marshal , scarcely his Em- peror , without seeing ...
... soldier to distinguish himself ; in the other , the least . To rise from the ranks was , in the French army , an occurrence of every day . The commonest soldier could not obey a field - marshal , scarcely his Em- peror , without seeing ...
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... soldier hold above an English one ! How , in that military nation , is he schooled , and trained , and selected from the herd ! Be- fore he is a soldier how necessarily is he a man of honour ! Now this last consideration brings us to ...
... soldier hold above an English one ! How , in that military nation , is he schooled , and trained , and selected from the herd ! Be- fore he is a soldier how necessarily is he a man of honour ! Now this last consideration brings us to ...
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... soldier would be consi- dered a premium to a man to behave ill . An excellent reason ; but what does it prove ? It proves that the service is felt to be such a hard- ship , even by the depraved and imbruted , who at present belong to it ...
... soldier would be consi- dered a premium to a man to behave ill . An excellent reason ; but what does it prove ? It proves that the service is felt to be such a hard- ship , even by the depraved and imbruted , who at present belong to it ...
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... soldier can receive corporal punishment . Amendment restores him to his former rank . In the third place , as the soldier ought at these military schools to receive a much better degree of education than at present , so he ought to be ...
... soldier can receive corporal punishment . Amendment restores him to his former rank . In the third place , as the soldier ought at these military schools to receive a much better degree of education than at present , so he ought to be ...
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Page 137 - Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn. Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, The beautiful is vanished — and returns not.
Page 165 - To one man's treat, but for another's ball? When Florio speaks what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand? With varying vanities, from every part, They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
Page 171 - DONNONS EN MANDEMENT à nos Cours et Tribunaux, Préfets, Corps administratifs, et tous autres, que les présentes ils gardent et maintiennent, fassent garder, observer et maintenir, et, pour les rendre plus notoires à tous, ils les fassent publier et enregistrer partout où besoin sera; et, afin que ce soit chose ferme et stable à toujours, nous y avons fait mettre notre sceau.
Page 168 - DONNONS EN MANDEMENT à nos cours et tribunaux, préfets, corps administratifs , et tous autres , que les présentes ils gardent et maintiennent, fassent garder, observer et maintenir, et, pour les rendre plus notoires à tous , ils les fassent publier et enregistrer partout où besoin sera ; et , afin que ce soit chose ferme et stable à toujours, nous y avons fait mettre notre sceau.
Page 47 - Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they drag them up. The little careless darling of the wealthier nursery, in their hovel is transformed betimes into a premature reflecting person No one has time to dandle it, no one thinks it worth while to coax it, to soothe it, to toss it up and down, to humour it.
Page 175 - D'être appelé ou nommé aux fonctions de juré ou autres fonctions publiques, ou aux emplois de l'administration, ou d'exercer ces fonctions ou emplois; 4°...
Page 117 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 174 - Provocation aux crimes et délits. Art. 23. — Seront punis comme complices d'une action qualifiée crime ou délit ceux qui, soit par des discours, cris ou menaces proférés dans des lieux ou réunions publics, soit par des écrits, des imprimés vendus ou distribués, mis en vente ou exposés dans des lieux ou réunions publics, soit par .des placards ou affiches, exposés aux regards du public, auront directement provoqué l'auteur ou les auteurs à commettre ladite action si la provocation...
Page 301 - Furthermore, (continues he,) the study of truth is perpetually joined with the love of virtue ; for there is no virtue which derives not its original from truth ; as, on the contrary, there is no vice which has not its beginning from a lie.
Page 47 - The innocent prattle of his children takes out the sting of a man's poverty. But the children of the very poor do not prattle. It is none of the least frightful features in that condition, that there is no childishness in its dwellings. Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they drag then*up.
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Managing Across Cultures: Issues and Perspectives Pat Joynt,Malcolm Warner No preview available - 2002 |