 | Samuel Zurlinden - 1917 - 576 sidor
...Oberst Stoffel in einem seiner berühmten Berichte aus Berlin vor dem Krieg von 1870 in dem Satze aus: „La Prusse n'est pas un pays qui a une armee, c'est une armee qui a un pays." Ein ganzes Büschel von Offenbarungen enthüllen uns einige Sätze aus Bismarcks „Gedanken und Erinnerungen":87)... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1972 - 1894 sidor
...essence of Militarismt Comte de Mirabeau defined it succinctly in 1788 following a mission to Berlin : "La Prusse n'est pas un pays qui a une armee, c'est une armee qui a un pays." Mirabeau then noted : "La guerre est 1'induStrie nationale de la Prusse." Across the Atlantic at that... | |
 | George Edward Thibault - 1984 - 916 sidor
...and excellence in it could be no more readily learned or transmitted than in sculpture or music.45 The situation of Prussia under Frederick the Great...un pays qui a une armee', c'est une armee qui a un pays."46 The population of Prussia was only a small fraction of that of any of the neighbouring kingdom... | |
 | Sir John Hackett - 1986 - 60 sidor
...and excellence in it could be no more readily learned or transmitted than in sculpture or music.15 The situation of Prussia under Frederick the Great...passing reminder of that of Sparta. Mirabeau said of it: "fa Prusse n'ext pas un pays qui a line armee1, c'est une armce qui a un pays." 10 The population of... | |
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... sophisticated still, maintained that command in war was the. product of natural genius. He divided warlike practice into two parts. The lower was mechanical and could be taught. The upper lay among the arts and excellence in it could be no more readily... 