The Twentieth Century, Volum 64Nineteenth Century and After, 1908 |
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Pàgina 5
... field- guns was worn out , the stock of ammunition in the Russian magazines had been depleted and was insufficient for a European campaign . Russia was disarmed . Towards the end of the war Russia could not have given any effective ...
... field- guns was worn out , the stock of ammunition in the Russian magazines had been depleted and was insufficient for a European campaign . Russia was disarmed . Towards the end of the war Russia could not have given any effective ...
Pàgina 26
... field batteries . Neither Mr. Haldane nor his advisers could have realised what would be required to organize an immense force of 196 efficient field batteries . Such a force would , if organized in brigades like regular field artillery ...
... field batteries . Neither Mr. Haldane nor his advisers could have realised what would be required to organize an immense force of 196 efficient field batteries . Such a force would , if organized in brigades like regular field artillery ...
Pàgina 27
... field ordnance are much longer now than formerly , and also the possible deflections are greater . Firing at targets on sea ranges or along flat beaches is of little use for field artillery , although for position guns for coast defence ...
... field ordnance are much longer now than formerly , and also the possible deflections are greater . Firing at targets on sea ranges or along flat beaches is of little use for field artillery , although for position guns for coast defence ...
Pàgina 28
... field artillery , besides any Territorial artillery , would be absolutely essential . of : According to the Army Order the Territorial artillery is to consist Horse Artillery Field 99 ( 41 brigades ) . Howitzer batteries ( 14 brigades ) ...
... field artillery , besides any Territorial artillery , would be absolutely essential . of : According to the Army Order the Territorial artillery is to consist Horse Artillery Field 99 ( 41 brigades ) . Howitzer batteries ( 14 brigades ) ...
Pàgina 29
... field batteries , a more manageable number to test the experiment of volunteer field artillery than the very large number proposed in the War Office scheme . This would give , allowing as usual four guns to a position battery , 400 ...
... field batteries , a more manageable number to test the experiment of volunteer field artillery than the very large number proposed in the War Office scheme . This would give , allowing as usual four guns to a position battery , 400 ...
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Pàgina 610 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Pàgina 429 - The rod and reproof give wisdom ; but a child left to himself, bringeth his mother to shame.
Pàgina 266 - In the most literal of senses, "the earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; and these are of them.
Pàgina 654 - Powers, signed a declaration affirming it to be " an essential principle of the law of nations that no Power can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting parties by means of an amicable arrangement.
Pàgina 67 - We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the " superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.
Pàgina 67 - In so far as it is not this, it is not home ; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently-minded, unknown, unloved, or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home ; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over, and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods...
Pàgina 482 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Pàgina 67 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision.
Pàgina 617 - Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Pàgina 186 - Hicky described his publication as a 'weekly political and commercial paper open to all parties but influenced by none'.