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... less rigorously complied with . But the result is , from the very com- mencement , a foregone conclusion , and the only issue involved for the more powerful State is that of the expediency of inflicting the chastisement , the expense ...
... less rigorously complied with . But the result is , from the very com- mencement , a foregone conclusion , and the only issue involved for the more powerful State is that of the expediency of inflicting the chastisement , the expense ...
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... less amount of deference to the public opinion of , and in , other States , which is acknowledged on entering upon them , and which regulates the conduct of them . Another class of Wars of a wholly peculiar kind , and presenting ...
... less amount of deference to the public opinion of , and in , other States , which is acknowledged on entering upon them , and which regulates the conduct of them . Another class of Wars of a wholly peculiar kind , and presenting ...
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... less frequent , or vanishing altogether , are differ- ent from , and stronger or weaker than , those which may be assigned in the case of another class of Wars ; and that , in a word , War , as a general fact , is a product of such ...
... less frequent , or vanishing altogether , are differ- ent from , and stronger or weaker than , those which may be assigned in the case of another class of Wars ; and that , in a word , War , as a general fact , is a product of such ...
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... less frequent , and shorter in duration , brings into sharper con- trast the enormous expenditure of all sorts on War , entailed in times of Peace , with the product of the expenditure , reaped in the brief and more and more rarely ...
... less frequent , and shorter in duration , brings into sharper con- trast the enormous expenditure of all sorts on War , entailed in times of Peace , with the product of the expenditure , reaped in the brief and more and more rarely ...
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... less consciously resorted to , for the purpose of imparting a glamour of fascination to the calling of a sol- dier . For the same purpose , military distinction and preferment is usually made to have an ad- vantage over civil honours ...
... less consciously resorted to , for the purpose of imparting a glamour of fascination to the calling of a sol- dier . For the same purpose , military distinction and preferment is usually made to have an ad- vantage over civil honours ...
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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.