How do they maintain discipline, either themselves, or through their subordinates?

The officers were powerless to enforce discipline; when these breaks happened the column was forced to come to a halt until every man had filled his canteenand here is one, among the many trivial causes, that brought about the reverses of McDowell's masterly campaign.

It means expense both of time and money to send for Pinkertons to keep order and preserve discipline.

Sour he was not, but he kept splendid discipline among his troops.

Upstart princesthe sons of a shepherd boyintoxicated with honours to which they were not born; they need the severest discipline; they break out into the most frantic licence.

If you and I had risen from the charcoal- burning to be consul twice and a grammarian and the friend of Marcus Aurelius; if you and I were as handsome as he is, and had experienced a triumph after restoring discipline in Britain and conducting two or three successful wars; and if either of us had such a wife as Flavia Titiana, I believe we could besmirch ourselves more constantly than Pertinax does!

Nor are their officers, my lords, extremely well qualified to supply those defects, and establish discipline and order in a body of new-raised forces; for they are absolutely strangers to service, and taken from school to receive a commission, or if transplanted from other regiments, have had time only to learn the art of dress.

I am confident that the nations that have learned the discipline of freedom and that have settled with self-possession to its ordered practice are now about to make conquest of the world by the sheer power of example and of friendly helpfulness.

It is true that there was no mutinous talk to be heard; the fate of the deserters had taught the grumblers a lesson that would not soon be forgotten, but much was said that did not tend to improve the discipline.

" "Yes, of course, the law even to-day recognizes the right to exercise physical discipline within the family.

The essential question now is, Whether this schooling has been sufficient and effectual, or whether we require still further hard discipline to enforce its instructions upon us.

Our best scholars and ablest menwith one or two conspicuous exceptionsdo not write, and the work is left to be done by littérateurs and clergymen or laymen who have never undergone the severe preliminary discipline which scientific investigation requires.

"They lack the discipline which alone a well-ordered State can bestow.

If you think you can endure perfect discipline and incessant plain speaking go to him, Esmeralda.

Let us give the Indians arms, and teach them discipline, and encourage them, now and then, to plunder a plantation.

Teachers have not faced the question squarely: "What am I aiming at in promoting free discipline.

The further progress of the same disorders introduced the bordering barbarians into the service of the Romans; and those fierce nations, having now added discipline to their native bravery, could no longer be restrained by the impotent policy of the emperors, who were accustomed to employ one in the destruction of the others.

A member of our class has insulted the whole brigade, and under our old traditions only the second class can administer discipline.

He reformed ecclesiastical discipline in Africa, rent by Arian factions and Donatist schismatics.

The descendants of Cublai gave themselves up to luxury in the palace of Peking, amidst a mischievous crowd of eunuchs, concubines, and astrologers, and their Mogul army, dissolved and dispersed in a vast and populous country, forgot the discipline and bravery of their ancestors.

She ruined discipline by her support of every plea for increased perquisites.

The proclamation had been signed by the Social Revolutionary President, Chernoff, and when it was proposed to take action against those who were destroying the discipline of the army, two Social Revolutionary members of the Council, Avkzentieff and Zenzinoff, could see nothing wrong in Chernoff's subversive propaganda.

He lamented that he was not sent to college, where if a young man receives no other discipline at least he meets his equals in society and assuredly finds his betters; whereas in Mr. Gandish's studio our young gentleman scarcely found a comrade that was not in one way or other his flatterer, his inferior, his honest or dishonest admirer.

I should, therefore, in the case which he has mentioned, prefer discipline to numbers, and rather enter the field with a few troops, well governed and well instructed, than with a confused multitude, unacquainted with their duty, unable to conduct themselves, and without officers to conduct them.

It has never subjected questions of faith and morals to popular vote nor has it determined discipline by parliamentary practice under a well developed party system, therefore it has preserved its unity, its integrity and its just standard of comparative values.