The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace |
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... blood for the purpose . Leading cabinets have become far more pacific than formerly ; their services have generously been tendered , in a variety of instances , to avert the threatened horrors of war ; and other expedients than a resort ...
... blood for the purpose . Leading cabinets have become far more pacific than formerly ; their services have generously been tendered , in a variety of instances , to avert the threatened horrors of war ; and other expedients than a resort ...
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... blood boil with indignation , or curdle with horror . One instance , however , we will select from our own land . In 1814 , a soldier was shot at Greenbush , New York , for going thirty or forty miles from the camp , without leave , to ...
... blood boil with indignation , or curdle with horror . One instance , however , we will select from our own land . In 1814 , a soldier was shot at Greenbush , New York , for going thirty or forty miles from the camp , without leave , to ...
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... blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow - creatures ? - Won- derful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings ...
... blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow - creatures ? - Won- derful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings ...
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... blood , rapine , fraud , every thing which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man . " man , PHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van of them all we will place the ...
... blood , rapine , fraud , every thing which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man . " man , PHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van of them all we will place the ...
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... blood — and extensive plains without a tree , or fence , or any object but the ruins of deserted farm - houses . Above all this group of woful figures , let the following words be inserted in red charac- ters , to represent human blood ...
... blood — and extensive plains without a tree , or fence , or any object but the ruins of deserted farm - houses . Above all this group of woful figures , let the following words be inserted in red charac- ters , to represent human blood ...
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY Apostles argument arms army battle bayonet benevolence blessing blood cause of peace century character Chris Christ Christendom Christian church civil common crime custom dead death defence destroy disputes duty earth enemies England Europe evil father favor fight fire forbearance France French friends of peace glory gospel Greece hands heart heathen heaven honor horrors human hundred idolatry individuals influence justice kill land lawfulness of war less lives mankind mass means ment military millions mind misery missionaries Moloch moral murder Napoleon nations nature navy never object officer pacific pagan passions perish precepts Prince of Peace principles profession punishment Quakers reason religion religion of peace Resist not evil rulers Russia savage says sentiment ships slaughter soldiers soul Spain spirit suffering sword Tatian TERTULLIAN thing thou thousand tion truth violence virtue war-system warrior wars whole wounded wrong