1 And he did his work, giving his whole strength to the task.
2 Military science says that the more troops the greater the strength.
3 One must have the prospect of a promised land to have the strength to move.
4 In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x.
5 There was a substantial change in the relative strength, and an advance had become inevitable.
6 He no longer seemed stout, though he still had the appearance of solidity and strength hereditary in his family.
7 The Russian army, only half the strength of the French, does not make a single attempt to attack for a whole month.
8 In proportion to the defeat of the Austrian army Austria loses its rights, and the rights and the strength of France increase.
9 This contradiction arises from the fact that military science assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its numbers.
10 And this not only stayed with him during the whole of his imprisonment, but even grew in strength as the hardships of his position increased.
11 On the other Kutuzov felt assured with all his being that the terrible blow into which he and all the Russians had put their whole strength must have been mortal.
12 But his strength soon began to fail him, and looking about him, conscious of having said much that was amiss, he again got into his caleche and drove back in silence.
13 The tactical rule that an army should act in masses when attacking, and in smaller groups in retreat, unconsciously confirms the truth that the strength of an army depends on its spirit.
14 Like an experienced sportsman he knew that the beast was wounded, and wounded as only the whole strength of Russia could have wounded it, but whether it was mortally wounded or not was still an undecided question.
15 All historians agree that the external activity of states and nations in their conflicts with one another is expressed in wars, and that as a direct result of greater or less success in war the political strength of states and nations increases or decreases.
16 In burned and devastated Moscow Pierre experienced almost the extreme limits of privation a man can endure; but thanks to his physical strength and health, of which he had till then been unconscious, and thanks especially to the fact that the privations came so gradually that it was impossible to say when they began, he endured his position not only lightly but joyfully.
17 He can either fall on the Russian army with double its strength and destroy it; negotiate an advantageous peace, or in case of a refusal make a menacing move on Petersburg, or even, in the case of a reverse, return to Smolensk or Vilna; or remain in Moscow; in short, no special genius would seem to be required to retain the brilliant position the French held at that time.
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