Speeches on Social and Political Subjects: Military floggingRichard Griffin, 1857 - Great Britain |
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... feelings of the reader ; but rather to those of the soldiery who suffered the infliction , and of the bystanders who witnessed it ; their tone and terms being , " You well deserve to be treated like brutes , if by submitting to it you ...
... feelings of the reader ; but rather to those of the soldiery who suffered the infliction , and of the bystanders who witnessed it ; their tone and terms being , " You well deserve to be treated like brutes , if by submitting to it you ...
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... feelings of a dangerous kind should be ex- cited in the soldiery . A mysterious awe hung over men's minds , and forbade them to break in upon the question . A fence was drawn around the ground , taboo'd as it were by military engines ...
... feelings of a dangerous kind should be ex- cited in the soldiery . A mysterious awe hung over men's minds , and forbade them to break in upon the question . A fence was drawn around the ground , taboo'd as it were by military engines ...
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... feeling how much the safety of his country depends upon the perfection of its military system , has a right to endeavour to promote the good of the service , by showing wherein the pre- sent system is detrimental to it , by marking out ...
... feeling how much the safety of his country depends upon the perfection of its military system , has a right to endeavour to promote the good of the service , by showing wherein the pre- sent system is detrimental to it , by marking out ...
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... feelings and the honour of the soldier depend the honour and glory of our arms ; sensible that upon those feelings and that honour hinges the safety of the country at all times , but never so closely as at present , whether , imbued ...
... feelings and the honour of the soldier depend the honour and glory of our arms ; sensible that upon those feelings and that honour hinges the safety of the country at all times , but never so closely as at present , whether , imbued ...
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... feelings upon so interesting a question , — “ The independence of an Englishman , " says he , " naturally recoils at the prospect of bondage , which gradually produces discontent against the bent even of inclina- tion . " " How many men ...
... feelings upon so interesting a question , — “ The independence of an Englishman , " says he , " naturally recoils at the prospect of bondage , which gradually produces discontent against the bent even of inclina- tion . " " How many men ...
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