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... practice of duelling is still more instructive , as the practice is still honored in some countries , while in not more civilized countries it is already placed on a par with the most abominable crimes . These instances , at least ...
... practice of duelling is still more instructive , as the practice is still honored in some countries , while in not more civilized countries it is already placed on a par with the most abominable crimes . These instances , at least ...
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... practice which is essentially protean in character , and has undergone , and is still undergoing , manifold changes in its most dis- tinguishing features . It is hardly possible to embrace under the same name the sort of incessant feuds ...
... practice which is essentially protean in character , and has undergone , and is still undergoing , manifold changes in its most dis- tinguishing features . It is hardly possible to embrace under the same name the sort of incessant feuds ...
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... practice and belief indicate , first , that there is no fixed character appertaining to Changes indi- cate non - per- War which seems to promise it a permanence su- manence of perior to that which might , at one time , seem to have ...
... practice and belief indicate , first , that there is no fixed character appertaining to Changes indi- cate non - per- War which seems to promise it a permanence su- manence of perior to that which might , at one time , seem to have ...
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... practices , and such forms of ( perhaps ) mitigated savagery as man is compelled to put on when he is taught it is his duty first to destroy , and only secondarily to save alive . No doubt the order , the preci- sion , the very ...
... practices , and such forms of ( perhaps ) mitigated savagery as man is compelled to put on when he is taught it is his duty first to destroy , and only secondarily to save alive . No doubt the order , the preci- sion , the very ...
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... practice of War which nobly distinguish the Wars waged by European States - at least as among themselves - from the Wars waged among more backward communities . Mr. Ward , in his " Origin and History of the Law of Nations , " has ...
... practice of War which nobly distinguish the Wars waged by European States - at least as among themselves - from the Wars waged among more backward communities . Mr. Ward , in his " Origin and History of the Law of Nations , " has ...
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Page 147 - 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 219 - ... any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances.
Page 147 - ... 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 146 - The Black Sea is neutralized ; its waters and its ports, thrown open to the mercantile marine of every nation, are formally and in perpetuity interdicted to the flag of war, either of the Powers possessing its coasts or of any other Power, with the exceptions mentioned in Articles 14 and 19 of the present treaty.