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... duty To the actual defence of the realm Extension of the notion of allegiance The connection of the military oath with the first Mutiny Act Recognised limits to the claims on a soldier's obedience . The falsity of the common doctrine of ...
... duty To the actual defence of the realm Extension of the notion of allegiance The connection of the military oath with the first Mutiny Act Recognised limits to the claims on a soldier's obedience . The falsity of the common doctrine of ...
Página 76
... duty it was to draw up a verbal process of the circum- stances of every visit or capture , and who , as he was paid and nominated by the captain of the privateer , was dependent for his profits in the concern on the lawfulness of the ...
... duty it was to draw up a verbal process of the circum- stances of every visit or capture , and who , as he was paid and nominated by the captain of the privateer , was dependent for his profits in the concern on the lawfulness of the ...
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... duty.'1 But not even yet is the notion definitely expunged from the unwritten code of martial etiquette . The original Russian project , submitted to the Brussels Conference , proposed to exclude , among other illicit means of war ...
... duty.'1 But not even yet is the notion definitely expunged from the unwritten code of martial etiquette . The original Russian project , submitted to the Brussels Conference , proposed to exclude , among other illicit means of war ...
Página 119
... - abnegation , faithfulness to duty , the spirit of sacrifice ; and that 1 Recueil , 33-37 , and Lady Bloomfield's Reminiscences , ii . 235 , 8 , 9 . without wars the world would soon stagnate and lose itself MILITARY REPRISALS . 119.
... - abnegation , faithfulness to duty , the spirit of sacrifice ; and that 1 Recueil , 33-37 , and Lady Bloomfield's Reminiscences , ii . 235 , 8 , 9 . without wars the world would soon stagnate and lose itself MILITARY REPRISALS . 119.
Página 120
... duty , where fever and disease are the foes to be combated , where wounds and pain need to be cured or soothed , or where sin and ignorance and poverty are the forces to be assailed ? But apart from this there is another side to the ...
... duty , where fever and disease are the foes to be combated , where wounds and pain need to be cured or soothed , or where sin and ignorance and poverty are the forces to be assailed ? But apart from this there is another side to the ...
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