Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 11W. Mitchell and Son, 1867 - Military art and science |
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Page 505 - These are the two effectual securities against military power ; that no pay can be issued to the troops without a previous authorization by the Commons in a committee of supply, and by both Houses in an act of appropriation ; and that no officer or soldier can be punished for disobedience, nor any court-martial held, without the annual re-enactment of the Mutiny Bill.
Page 604 - in ' our time, that the rate of progress in the arts and sciences proceeds ' in a geometrical ratio as knowledge increases, and so, when we carry ' back our retrospect into the past, we must be prepared to find the ' signs of retardation augmenting in a like geometrical ratio.
Page 604 - We see in our own times that the rate of progress in the arts and sciences proceeds in a geometrical ratio as knowledge increases, and so, when we carry back our retrospect into the past, we must be prepared to find the signs of retardation augmenting in a like geometrical ratio; so that the progress of a thousand years at a remote period may correspond to that of a century in modern times, and in ages still more remote Man would more and more resemble the brutes in that attribute which causes one...
Page 365 - Between these places caravans often pass, so that various wares are constantly being transported through this country without any extraordinary difficulty. It may, I think, be taken for granted that wherever trade can be carried on with profit, all natural obstacles have been surmounted. It is a well known fact that the caravans that travel from Kulja into some of the interior provinces of China, encounter greater dangers than will be met with between Yarkand, Kashgar, and the Indus.
Page 433 - I fired, striking him fair, but the shell glanced off almost perpendicularly into the air and exploded. At the same time I opened a brisk fire with all my small arms against his ports, which, I am confident, prevented them from manning her port guns till after she had passed us. I observed one man in the act of sponging tumble out of the port, sponge and all, evidently shot by a rifle ball.
Page 646 - Robison, is equal to the weight of a column, having the orifice for its base, and twice the depth under the surface of the water in the trunk for its height. This measure of the height may seem odd, because if the orifice were shut, the pressure on it is the weight of a column reaching from the surface.
Page 447 - Upon inquiry I found that the light was elevated seventy-five feet above the water, my own eye being about twenty-five feet above the sea level. In this sea, according to the testimony of her officers, she was very easy.
Page 87 - A living spirit possesses the whole Sikh people, and the impress of Gobind has not only elevated and altered the constitution of their minds, but has operated materially and given amplitude to their physical frames.
Page 92 - The rebels raised a barricade on the top of the opposite house ; our own grew in the same proportion : a shot shook a weak place in our defence, the place was made twice as strong as before. We began to feel the want of animal food and short allowance of grain ; a sally was made at night and four sheep brought in...
Page 87 - Gobind has not only elevated and altered the constitution of their minds, but has operated materially and given amplitude to their physical frames. The features and external form of a whole people have been modified, and a Sikh chief is not more distinguishable by his stately person and free and manly bearing, than a minister of his faith is by a lofty thoughtfulness of look, which marks the fervour of his soul, and his persuasion of the near presence of the...