In order that during the respite now offered he might instil these habits into his brigade, Jackson neither took furlough himself nor granted it to others.
To-day his officers have the more difficult task of stimulating his intelligence, while, at the same time, they instil the habits of subordination; and that such task may be successfully accomplished we have practical proof.
Time was wanting to instil such instinct into the Confederate troops; and the intelligence and patriotism of the men, largely of high class and good position, who filled the ranks, might be relied upon to prevent serious misconduct.
Neither he nor his regimental officers had any previous knowledge of war when they were suddenly launched against the enemy, and there was no time to instil into them the habits of discipline.
The conclusion at which I have arrived is, that to make a rope of sand were an easy task compared with the attempt to instil the simpler facts of science into paradoxical heads.
They further instil into the Japanese mind wicked ideas of "Progress," and teach that it is well to go ahead of your neighbour, to improve your situation, and generally to thresh yourself to pieces in the battle of existence.
But the modern parent, anxious to realize for the child, and to instil a love of accuracy into his mind, gives him a superb horse-hair tail, bidding him at the same time be careful not to spoil it.
My childhood was passed with pious relatives, who labored to instil religious principles into my mind; but I 'would none of their reproof.
In educating your child, be careful to instil and to form good habits--they will then stick to him for life.
Let me urge a mother toinstil into her daughter's mind the importance of this advice.
Hence, even if the attempt had been or were in the future made to instil ethical notions into the minds of the Indian youth independently of all religious teaching, it could only result in failure.
The first principle the coach has to instil into our young batsman is that he must never move his right leg backwards in the direction of short leg.
Yes, in the first place, I endeavored to instil enlightened ideas into the densest of all heads.
In three years ideas had rooted themselves in the common sense of this township, hitherto so lacking in intelligence that a passing traveler would perhaps have thought it hopeless to attempt to instil them.
I really will not go so fast in mathematics, I will instil my own sense of morality in my boys, I will do something to alter the ridiculous codes which govern their mode of conduct.
In my own small way I always try to instil into my boys the necessity to open and use all the brain-cells instead of just ten or twenty per cent, of them, but my influence alone doesn't count for much.
Still my job is toinstil a love for the old and new masters of literature by whatever means, and to do this I suppose I must not grudge an impoverished library.
There have been two horrible rows this term, one during the first week when I was fresh from the healthy wilds of Dartmoor, full of vigour to instil my high ideals into the minds of all who came into contact with me.
Of all the efforts taken to instil a military training into the Volunteer none perhaps have had so great an effect as the “Aldershot Week.
She must talk to Ron in private, and try to instil into him some of her own energy and enterprise.
The pure rarefied air fanned the heated faces of the climbers, and with every moment seemed to instil fresh life and vigour.
Then, too, let us instil in the youth of our nation simple faith, a firm belief in the Lord God, whose will directs the destinies of mankind.
You can watch the shooting idea, can restrain any exuberance, instil in her right principles, make her reverence virtue, detest vice.
Before passing through the Porta Marina into the purlieus of the city, let us first of all instil into our minds the essential difference that exists between the ruins of Pompeii and the historic fragments of Rome or Athens.
The task of the present century is to instil its essential teachings, thus revealed, into the mind of the individual, so that they will become controlling factors in human life.
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