Above all, let us maintain discipline and obedience to commanders.
That they might make the better soldiers, Lycurgus formed laws to do away with all luxury and inequality of conditions, and to train up the young under a rigid system of discipline to the use of weapons and the arts of war.
Philopoemen, whose name had grown to stand highest among the soldiers of Greece, was chosen as general of the cavalry, and at once set himself to reform its discipline and improve its tactics.
The Helots, also, were often employed as light-armed soldiers, and there was always danger that they might revolt against their oppressors, a fact which made constant discipline and vigilance necessary to the Spartan citizens.
After taking the city of Byzantium, he fell in love with Oriental luxury and grew to despise the humble fare and rigid discipline of Sparta.
The superior discipline of the Greeks gave them a further advantage.
The Duke shows that with our discipline we have more men fit for duty in proportion to our numbers than the Prussians in the proportion of two to one.
Then read a memorandum of the Duke's in reply to one of Hardinge's on the subject of the discipline of the British army.
Without discipline our army would be inferior to others.
I must teach them all discipline and obedience to the word of command.
In spite of all remonstrances, they gave their commander a specimen of how far their discipline might be relied upon, by fighting it out with their rapiers, and my kinsman was killed on the spot.
No other army on the Ohio, since the day Forbes's and Bouquet's British regulars left Fort Pitt, could be compared with it in discipline and trustworthiness.
The condition of army discipline was probably indescribable.
The little American did not fit into her niche at Pendlemere without encountering a certain amount of what her schoolmates considered necessary discipline for a novice.
It's absolutely essential in our country rambles that discipline should be kept up, and any girl who breaks rules will stay at home next time.
With him, discipline was an end in itself, and not a means; and he endeavoured to soften its rigour by his poetical and elevated Idealism.
Although children may be neglected by their parents, they come at last under the disciplineof the law and the public.
Order or Disciplineis inculcated, not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself.
Gorgias contradicts Protagoras, and sets up Order or Discipline as a final end.
Disinterested conduct was no part of their scheme, although the ascetic discipline necessarily promotes abstinence from sins against property, and from all the vices of public ambition.
Next to the disciplineof endurance, we must rank the complacent sentiment of Pride, which the Stoic might justly feel in his conquest of himself, and in his lofty independence and superiority to the casualties of life.
She exhausted the solfeggi which her father had written out for her sister Maria, and when this laborious discipline was done she determined to compose others for herself.
Newinton describes a pregnancy of five months terminating with the birth of twins, one of whom lived twenty minutes and the other fifteen.
The following recent instance is given with full details to illustrate the difficulties attending the births of quintuplets.
Woodson speaks of a case of twins, one of which was born enveloped in its secundines.
Ruttel speaks of a child of five months who lived twenty-four hours; and he saw male twins born at the sixth month weighing 3 pounds each who were alive and healthy a year after.
It was first nourished by dropping liquid food into its mouth; and at the age of fifteen months it was healthy and weighed 18 pounds.
Moore is accredited with the trustworthy report of the case of a woman who bore a child at the end of the fifth month weighing 1 1/2 pounds and measuring 9 inches.
Now it happened that the Roman was dining in Princeton that night and the conduct of discipline was in the hands of a young assistant master, lately transferred from the wilds of the Dickinson, Mr. Lorenzo Blackstone Tapping.
Do you realize, Bedelle, that you owe me an explanation, that if there is no explanation for this extraordinary attack on the discipline and morale of the school that I should be quite justified in requesting your immediate departure?
He will bediscipline enough for you, for Tom has long ago buried his heart in his violin.
To become a true writer of comedy needs discipline as well as a knowledge of the world, Dick, anddiscipline is sometimes galling, my friend.
Well, sir, there is no discipline equal to that of one's daily life for a man who aspires to write a comedy dealing with the follies of the time.
The work of breaking down the discipline of the army was carried on energetically, and, of course, it was not altogether fruitless.
It is from these self-styled friends of the people that the revolutionary party gets support in its effort to break down the discipline of our troops.
Russian Discipline Undermined by the Revolutionists The indifference of Russia to the bloody struggle which her sons were carrying on--for little understood objects and in a foreign land--could not fail to discourage even the best soldiers.
All these things we failed to see, and we overlooked also the iron discipline enforced in the army and the role played in it by the samurai officers.
Defence against any aggression: and the strictest discipline observed.
Wolfe is strict in discipline; loves the willing mind, none more, and can kindle it among those about him; but he loves discipline withal, and knows how fatal the too willing may be.
The consequences have been learned through the study of evolutionary biology; yet a distinct addition to the usual discipline of biology is required in order to apprehend its geographical correlations.
Those most likely to ask them are quiet, God-fearing parents, who, having bred their sons to a sense of duty, expect college life to broaden and consolidate the discipline of the home.
Each hour of study brings precious discipline in preferring what is distantly important to what is momentarily agreeable.
Special knowledge is wanted, or trained insight, or professional skill, or sound practical judgment; and the teacher who is called on has gone through no such discipline as assures these resources.
If then the modes of accepting the passion for perfection are so divergent as I have indicated, is it possible to suggest methods by which we may discipline ourselves in the nobler way of seeking the interests of life?
This is the work of books and teachers everywhere: they discipline the knowing act, and so bring within its influence that multitude of matters which depend for excellent adjustment on clear and ordered knowledge.
It may be; though discipline of the passions is enormously more difficult than discipline of the mind.
In neither case has the august discipline meant anything.
He has been training himself in reference to something precise; and the moment he ventures beyond it, the very exactitude of his discipline limits his worth.
Of course we must retain coolness in courage, applying the results of our previous discipline in accuracy; but we need not move so slowly as to become formal.
Admit that the Harvard discipline does not do this perfectly at present; what will do it better?
Its conventual disciplinewas dear to him, and oftener than of his birthplace at the foot of Mt.
Moral discipline is not a thing to be supplied by wholesale.
Hence, as in harvest with a short allowance of fair weather, discipline must be tempered with diplomacy.
Of course he drank, but he had enough of the results of the old stable discipline left to restrain himself until after the race was run.
The ordinary military guard, so many rank and file, with their officers, together with the Surgeon-Superintendent, had been detailed for the duty of ensuring discipline and the safety of the ship.
Here he was caught in some one of the snares laid for him; first trepanned into an act which violated some rule of the service; and then provoked into a breach of disciplineagainst the general officer who had thus trepanned him.
But after three days the Earl of Westmoreland regained possession, and Mr. Stafford underwent the same sharp discipline as befel Edward the Second's favourite.
But, recollect it's all owing todiscipline and obedience to orders!
However the powerful canton set up order and discipline in the disorganized district of Vaud, and gave it the cachet of its exemplary administration.
At attempt on the part of the two reformers to enforce too severe ecclesiastical discipline was the cause of their having to leave the city in 1538.
We slept at Auburn, celebrated for its prison, where the highly-approved system of American discipline originated.
Negroes are very sensible to kindness, and might, I think, be rendered more profitably obedient by the practice of it towards them, than by any other mode of discipline whatever.
No living models are sought for; no discipline as to the manner of study is enforced.
A great schism had lately taken place among the Quakers of Philadelphia; many objecting to the over-strict discipline of the orthodox.
I have conversed with many American ladies on the total want ofdiscipline and subjection which I observed universally among children of all ages, and I never found any who did not both acknowledge and deplore the truth of the remark.
