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... Europe . The judicial combats , again , which Combat . took so deep a hold of the legal and political mind of the Normans , and obtained a firm footing in England , passed away , for all practical purposes , as it would appear , in the ...
... Europe . The judicial combats , again , which Combat . took so deep a hold of the legal and political mind of the Normans , and obtained a firm footing in England , passed away , for all practical purposes , as it would appear , in the ...
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... European States , may or may not be observed and enforced when England is at war with China , or Turkey , or Persia , and the outward form- alities may be more or less rigorously complied with . But the result is , from the very com ...
... European States , may or may not be observed and enforced when England is at war with China , or Turkey , or Persia , and the outward form- alities may be more or less rigorously complied with . But the result is , from the very com ...
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... Europe . It is not only that Navi- gation Laws , a selfish and suicidal colonial system , and recourse to protective taxation , have been , in England and many other Euro- Advance of war . Economic Science opposed Free Trade principles ...
... Europe . It is not only that Navi- gation Laws , a selfish and suicidal colonial system , and recourse to protective taxation , have been , in England and many other Euro- Advance of war . Economic Science opposed Free Trade principles ...
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... Europe , some millions of men , selected from the healthiest part of the population of the different countries , and at the maturest period of human life , not only are withdrawn from all productive occupations , but luxuriously , not ...
... Europe , some millions of men , selected from the healthiest part of the population of the different countries , and at the maturest period of human life , not only are withdrawn from all productive occupations , but luxuriously , not ...
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... European coun- tries . One of these objects is the reduction , or even ( if possible ) the extinction , of pauperism . The other is the elevation of the condition of the labourer by raising his wages and shortening 26 MODERN WARS AND ...
... European coun- tries . One of these objects is the reduction , or even ( if possible ) the extinction , of pauperism . The other is the elevation of the condition of the labourer by raising his wages and shortening 26 MODERN WARS AND ...
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Page 317 - ... any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances.
Page 210 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Page 210 - ... with reference to any means of communication by Ship-Canal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean; the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Page 342 - Prisoners of war may be employed on certain public works which have no immediate connection with the operations on the theatre of war, provided the employment be not excessive, nor humiliating to their military rank, if they belong to the army, or to their official or social position, if they do not belong to it. " They may also, subject to such regulations as may be drawn up by the military authorities, undertake private work.
Page 225 - The High Contracting Parties engage to respect the principle of Neutrality stipulated by the present Article. That principle is and remains placed under the sanction of the collective Guarantee of the Powers signing Parties to the present Treaty, with the exception of Belgium, which is itself a Neutral State.
Page 211 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain, having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the inter-oceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal...
Page 208 - ... the ancient rule of his empire, and in virtue of which it has at all times been prohibited for the ships of war of foreign Powers to enter the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus ; and that, so long as the Porte is at peace, His Majesty will admit no foreign ship of war into the said Straits.