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... look at the enormous expenditures of war . Those of our last war have been variously estimated ; but they could not have been less than forty or fifty millions of dol- lars every year . Our revolutionary war cost England six hundred ...
... look at the enormous expenditures of war . Those of our last war have been variously estimated ; but they could not have been less than forty or fifty millions of dol- lars every year . Our revolutionary war cost England six hundred ...
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... look with confidence to a gradual revolution in the state of pub- lic opinion from the omnipotence of gospel truth working its silent but effectual way through the families of mankind , yet much may be done to accelerate the advent of ...
... look with confidence to a gradual revolution in the state of pub- lic opinion from the omnipotence of gospel truth working its silent but effectual way through the families of mankind , yet much may be done to accelerate the advent of ...
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... Look at the French butcheries in Spain or Portugal under Napoleon . Peaceful inhabitants massacred without distinction or mercy ! " Often were the ditches along the line of their march , " says an eye - witness , " literally filled with ...
... Look at the French butcheries in Spain or Portugal under Napoleon . Peaceful inhabitants massacred without distinction or mercy ! " Often were the ditches along the line of their march , " says an eye - witness , " literally filled with ...
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... look next at the nature of war itself , and see if we can find there any thing to forbid the possibility of its abo- lition . It is a custom ; and all customs are from their very nature subject to the will of men , liable to change ...
... look next at the nature of war itself , and see if we can find there any thing to forbid the possibility of its abo- lition . It is a custom ; and all customs are from their very nature subject to the will of men , liable to change ...
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... look at the facts . Here is a nation of ten , twenty or fifty millions , that hire you as one of their soldiers to kill whom- soever they may wish to have killed , and promise to give you , besides your food and clothing , some ten or ...
... look at the facts . Here is a nation of ten , twenty or fifty millions , that hire you as one of their soldiers to kill whom- soever they may wish to have killed , and promise to give you , besides your food and clothing , some ten or ...
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Page 51 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 49 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 495 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 498 - When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword ? 50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Page 562 - And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending; till at length after infinite effort the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word
Page 503 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 190 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 410 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 52 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 190 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...