Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 13

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Page 82 - Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company. Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Page 266 - Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.
Page 33 - I shall be deemed foolhardy in engaging for the defence of the empire with an army composed of such a force of militia. I may be so. I confess it, I should infinitely prefer, and should feel more confidence in, an army of regular troops. But I know that I shall not have these. I may have the others...
Page 263 - ... constitution, may not be made the groundwork of a transfer of jurisdiction. Cases may arise, and would arise, under such a law ; and if the simple existence, or possibility of such a case, is a sufficient ground of jurisdiction, and that ground sufficient to transfer the whole case to the federal judiciary, the least that can be said of it is, that it was not a case within the mischief intended to be obviated by the constitution. I shall say no more on this subject, but proceed to one which also...
Page 242 - ... stores to the place where it was desirable to use them. " The people of England, so happy as they are in every respect, so rich in resources of every description, having the use of such excellent roads, &c., will not readily believe that important results here frequently depend upon fifty or sixty mules, more or less, or a few bundles of straw to feed them ; but the fact is so, notwithstanding their incredulity. I could not find means of moving even one gun from Madrid.
Page xxvi - London, the sum of £ , such legacy to be paid out of such part of my personal estate, not specifically bequeathed, as the law permits to be appropriated by will to such a purpose. NOTE A. — All gifts by will to the Society of...
Page 472 - ... settles down to a more stationary life, and by degrees takes to agriculture. Then, for the first time, he digs into the soil, and becomes acquainted with its mineral treasures. It has been proved by the discovery of quantities of carbonized grains of wheat, lumped together, in the Swiss lake-habitations of the stone age, together with the materials for preparing it for food, that a knowledge of agriculture preceded the general employment of bronze in that region, whilst in Britain, and in Denmark...
Page 241 - I could wish, on account of the great deficiency in the means of transport with this army, owing to my having found it impossible to procure even one mule or a cart in Spain. ' I enclose the copy of a letter which I thought it proper to address upon this subject to...
Page 168 - ... it did not exceed 10 or 11 degrees when head to sea. The result was that the main deck was flooded with water to the extent of flowing over the hatchways, the water poured in and out of the guns, two shot rolled overboard out of them, and one was followed by the cartridge. Two of the guns at different times got the better of the crew, and banged in and out of the port several times with extreme violence, and two of the slides were to a certain extent damaged by it. "It is needless to say that...
Page 337 - should end with medicine, the Physician commence with philosophy." But philosophy and medicine have been always too much viewed independently of each other, and their mutual influence has never been fairly taken into account in delineating the progress of either. The history of medicine is, in fact, a part, and a very important part, of the history of philosophy. Dr Thomson has wholly avoided this defect ; and his general acquaintance with philosophical and medical opinions, renders the Life of...

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