Essays on Peace & War: Which First Appeared in the Christian Mirror, Printed at Portland, Me. New Series |
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... continue my lucubrations is the paucity of books and writings , on permanent and universal peace . It is difficult to write on self - evident proposi- tions and generally acknowledged truths ; and no truth has been more generally ac ...
... continue my lucubrations is the paucity of books and writings , on permanent and universal peace . It is difficult to write on self - evident proposi- tions and generally acknowledged truths ; and no truth has been more generally ac ...
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... continue to practise in particular cases what they know to be wrong as a general rule . Much however has been written within a few years , and with great effect , in the cause of Peace . Yet the sub- ject is far from being exhausted . I ...
... continue to practise in particular cases what they know to be wrong as a general rule . Much however has been written within a few years , and with great effect , in the cause of Peace . Yet the sub- ject is far from being exhausted . I ...
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... continue it . My future communications will have no regular order , and will only appear at inter- vals , that I may not tire any class of readers . They will consist of such communications and hints as I may receive from respected ...
... continue it . My future communications will have no regular order , and will only appear at inter- vals , that I may not tire any class of readers . They will consist of such communications and hints as I may receive from respected ...
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... continues these practices , can have no rational hope of salva- tion , founded on that religion . It is a custom in Europe , and I believe in this country , to have a " dress parade on the Sabbath , at which the soldiers and officers ...
... continues these practices , can have no rational hope of salva- tion , founded on that religion . It is a custom in Europe , and I believe in this country , to have a " dress parade on the Sabbath , at which the soldiers and officers ...
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... continue long after . At present , there is no other remedy for the evil , than holding up its naked deformity to the public view , and inducing the friends of sobriety and good order , to be constant and strenuous in their opposition ...
... continue long after . At present , there is no other remedy for the evil , than holding up its naked deformity to the public view , and inducing the friends of sobriety and good order , to be constant and strenuous in their opposition ...
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