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MILITARY ENDS

AND

MORAL MEANS:

EXEMPLIFYING

THE HIGHER INFLUENCES AFFECTING MILITARY LIFE
AND CHARACTER;

THE MOTIVES TO ENLISTMENT;

THE USE OF STRATAGEMS IN WAR;

THE NECESSITY OF STANDING ARMIES;

AND

THE DUTIES OF A MILITARY FORCE AIDING THE CIVIL POWER.

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SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

M.DCCC.LXIV.
1864

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represented in the evidence before the named, an effort to remove all missuch a subject, and to obtain for the n in popular estimation to which he is Under any

regarded as uncalled for. Under

merit of an honest desire to do an act ed for the attempt.

young soldier is, from the poorer nunity, much of his moral training is lescription which is familiarly termed circumstances;" a great diversity is, to be expected in the moral condition join the Army; but it by no means humble origin that they have been on the contrary, it might not, perhaps, that, in proportion to numbers, the country are on a par with the rich in morality.

reasoning has hitherto scarcely been the maxim, that innocence is to be

is proved, been much attended to

it for the Army. Few have been edit for enlisting from honourable towards him upon his entering feared, has been and still is in of distrust; and up to a very

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TO

FIELD-MARSHAL

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,

ETC. ETC. ETC.

COMMANDING-IN-CHIEF,

This Work

1S DEDICATED (WITH SPECIAL PERMISSION)

BY

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S VERY OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

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