There was a demon of suspicion, division, and even treachery amongst prominent men, and the terrible demoralisation of the masses, resulting from their position and the long continuance of the previous siege.
I was, therefore, well inclined to Germany from my utter hatred of the imperial demoralisation of France.
Scores of prisoners surrendered themselves, and hundreds of discarded muskets bore witness to the demoralisation of the Northerners.
The rout, overthrow, and demoralisation of the whole army were complete.
These dispositions sufficiently attest the demoralisation of the Federal commander.
The reports of other officers corroborate General Trimble's statement, and there can be no question that demoralisation had set in.
His estimate of the demoralisation of the Federal army after Bull Run, and of the ease with which Washington might have been captured, was absolutely correct.
Then, two hours later: "Information this moment received completely confirms the rout and demoralisationof the rebel army.
A violent animus against antiphysical passions makes him exaggerate these dangers, for it is clear that normal vice is no less free from sordid demoralisation and crimes of violence than its abnormal twin-brother.
At our elections there is deep-seated demoralisation, but still that demoralisation has its bounds which it cannot pass, and the high-minded and the honourable form the majority in the House of Commons.
The result of such proceedings we see in the American cities; in the degradation of their slums, and in the hopeless demoralisation of thousands who, in their own country, were living decent, industrious lives.
The convicts, for security's sake, were relegated to irons; but they found means to obtain spirits from shore, and wholesale intoxication and demoralisation naturally followed.
Speaking humanly," says Colonel Jebb, "the demoralisation of every individual sentenced to transportation was certain.
But the soldiers, filled with confidence, and enriched with every kind of provisions, eagerly turned to feasting and wine and the demoralisation which always accompanies such excesses.
In short, a little demoralisation is the best security I can see for the supreme perfecting of his career.
These misgivings occur to me although you know, if nobody else does, that I was not convinced by the argument in favour of coercion, and saw no evidence of greater demoralisation than was the direct effect of actual suffering.
On the contrary, all who are more intimately acquainted with the condition of the inhabitants will testify to the high degree which disease, wretchedness, and demoralisationhave here reached.
And when all these conditions have engendered vast demoralisation among the workers, a new influence is added to the old, to spread this degradation more widely and carry it to the extremest point.
Another source of demoralisation among the workers is their being condemned to work.
The demoralisation of a section of the upper class under the bad emperors must have certainly involved the degradation of many women.
The result was that the work of demoralisation made rapid progress, perjury became a joke, assassination was merely 'removal,' and men who had been brutally murdered were said to have met with an accident.
But it has meant far less distress, far less destruction of human vitality, and I will add far less demoralisation of human character than many of the bad years we had before the war.
If prompt measures had been taken at the start, years of demoralisation and damage, loss of wages, and ruin of property would have been saved both to employers and workmen.
But one mischance, directly proceeding from thedemoralisation of the household on that night, was of a serious and melancholy nature.
The Ithuriel coming thus suddenly into view, her eight guns pointing in all directions, and her searchlight flashing hither and thither as though seeking new victims, completed the demoralisation of the Russians.
Coming on the day after our reverse at Stormberg, it completed the momentary demoralisation of a great mass of people at home who had expected the campaign to resolve itself into a sweeping march on Pretoria.
Others attributed our defeat solely to the demoralisation of the troops.
Whatever our strategy during that period may have been, it was upset by the masses of the soldiery, for from Petrograd to the Danube and the Diala demoralisation was spreading and growing.
The idea of an advance could not, therefore, be particularly popular with the Army, as demoralisation was growing.
I must, however, admit that in those days the military circles proved sufficiently stolid in spite of all the efforts to dismember them, and that the seeds of demoralisation were not allowed to grow.
During the first period the activities of the Bolsheviks, which are of great importance, were based upon the following three principles: (1) The overthrow of the Government and the demoralisation of the Army.
The degree of the demoralisation of different units and the condition of different sectors of a given firing line, purely accidental, had also to be taken into account.
Of the general demoralisation here is the evidence of a witness in that very action at Graspan on June 6, which has been made so much of by the slanderers of our Army: No.
But several isolated instances, and several general cases have shown the demoralisation of their ranks.
The turf at that time had not developed into that vast institution of national demoralisation which it now exhibits.
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