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... facts may serve to elucidate and explain the text , and merely as such I add them . WILLIAM FERGUSSON , the author of this work , was born at Ayr , on the 19th of June , 1773. His father's family had long been one of the most ...
... facts may serve to elucidate and explain the text , and merely as such I add them . WILLIAM FERGUSSON , the author of this work , was born at Ayr , on the 19th of June , 1773. His father's family had long been one of the most ...
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... fact , the cruel discipline of the army outraged human nature , and stained the national character . The fruits were strikingly characteristic of the seed - universal depra- vity , desertion , crime - the halberts . Unless in the ...
... fact , the cruel discipline of the army outraged human nature , and stained the national character . The fruits were strikingly characteristic of the seed - universal depra- vity , desertion , crime - the halberts . Unless in the ...
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... fact , flogging is so easy and compendious an operation , saves so much trouble to the instructor , and the power is so gratifying to human pride , that whoever has flogged men , women , or children ( for the exception of the negro ...
... fact , flogging is so easy and compendious an operation , saves so much trouble to the instructor , and the power is so gratifying to human pride , that whoever has flogged men , women , or children ( for the exception of the negro ...
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... fact , that the show is to be every thing , no matter what the reality . All will admit , that to enrol the short and the feeble in the military ranks would be a grievous mistake ; but if in the short and the strong are often found the ...
... fact , that the show is to be every thing , no matter what the reality . All will admit , that to enrol the short and the feeble in the military ranks would be a grievous mistake ; but if in the short and the strong are often found the ...
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... fact a bundle of thews and sinews . In the animal world we may liken him to the pony and the terrier , gifted with hardihood and health to wear out and endure beyond his taller comrades . He may be despised by the martinet on the parade ...
... fact a bundle of thews and sinews . In the animal world we may liken him to the pony and the terrier , gifted with hardihood and health to wear out and endure beyond his taller comrades . He may be despised by the martinet on the parade ...
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