An Essay on Military Educationauthor; and sold, 1776 - 106 Seiten |
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... soldier ever dared to plead his profeffion as an exemption from the obligations of duty in civil and focial life ? Are intemperance , injuftice , cruelty , pro- faneness , and impiety , lefs cognizable by the laws , less culpable , and ...
... soldier ever dared to plead his profeffion as an exemption from the obligations of duty in civil and focial life ? Are intemperance , injuftice , cruelty , pro- faneness , and impiety , lefs cognizable by the laws , less culpable , and ...
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... soldier most requires , and the least connexion with his ad- vancement in military science . Whatever is done for the fake of infpiring true courage ; particularly , what is done from a love of hardship and fatigue , fuch as traversing ...
... soldier most requires , and the least connexion with his ad- vancement in military science . Whatever is done for the fake of infpiring true courage ; particularly , what is done from a love of hardship and fatigue , fuch as traversing ...
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... Soldier , who , as he will ftand in continual need of both , for occafional intercourse with prisoners spies and peasants , and for general consultation and converse with foreign officers , must learn to fpeak them colloquially as well ...
... Soldier , who , as he will ftand in continual need of both , for occafional intercourse with prisoners spies and peasants , and for general consultation and converse with foreign officers , must learn to fpeak them colloquially as well ...
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... Soldier is in queft of the knowledge of things and not of words , all the knowledge he requires he will find abun dantly fupplied , either in English , French , or German . This attainment of language , like that of generous virtue ...
... Soldier is in queft of the knowledge of things and not of words , all the knowledge he requires he will find abun dantly fupplied , either in English , French , or German . This attainment of language , like that of generous virtue ...
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