justifiableness

Whatever may become of the abstract question of the justifiableness of war, it seems impossible that the soldier should not be a depraved and unnatural being.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Dambach, who had not only declared that during the Interdict it was the duty of a pious Christian to submit unconditionally to the Church, but even composed several tractates to prove the justifiableness of the

The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905

He was not at ease in his conscience, for, to be plain, he was not sure that he was not afraid to risk himself in Scotland, and he was not certain that his new scruples about the justifiableness of a rising for religion were not the excuses suggested by his own timidity.

John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

Scotland, and he was not certain that his new scruples about the justifiableness of a rising for religion were not the excuses suggested by his own timidity.

John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

The doctrine — notorious in church-history — of the justifiableness of tyrant-murder, we need only mention in passing, as well as also the almost demagogic doctrine of the merely-relatively valid and purely human right of princes, and of the right to disobey law on the part of the people, as being themselves sovereign.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

The misgivings which could not be suppressed in the minds of many concerning the justifiableness of our late intervention in the affairs of China do not and cannot exist in the present instance.

The Joint Expedition to Mexico 1861

These truths we assert, without fear of successful contradiction, establish the justifiableness of the act of the United States marshal who fired upon and killed Terry.

Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State Stephen Johnson Field 1857

During the rest of the night he became all the more determined in this resolution, demonstrating to himself by a thousand mad reasons, which he found solid and inscrutable, the necessity for and the justifiableness of this vengeance.

The Widow Lerouge ��mile Gaboriau 1852

It has been deemed proper, in commencing a course of lectures on war, to make a few introductory remarks respecting this question of its justifiableness.

Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. Henry Wager Halleck 1843

I am not now prejudging the question of its justifiableness.

The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill 1839