The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and PeaceSixty four tracts, compiled and edited by George C. Beckwith, corresponding secretaty of the American Peace Society. Each tract is separately as well as consecutively paged. |
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... ships , and others into stinking casements . Here the extremity of our anguish exceeded all powers of description . With scarce strength enough to crawl to our detestable dungeons , many of us reached them only to lie down , and die ...
... ships , and others into stinking casements . Here the extremity of our anguish exceeded all powers of description . With scarce strength enough to crawl to our detestable dungeons , many of us reached them only to lie down , and die ...
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... ships on fire , in which there is but a moment between them and the most cruel death ; and on those ramparts where subterraneous explosion announces , that they are in an instant to be buried under a tremendous heap of stones and ...
... ships on fire , in which there is but a moment between them and the most cruel death ; and on those ramparts where subterraneous explosion announces , that they are in an instant to be buried under a tremendous heap of stones and ...
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... ships sinking in the ocean rivers dyed with 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 ...
... ships sinking in the ocean rivers dyed with 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 ...
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... ship without meeting a volley of oaths , or find a warrior on land or sea who does not ha- bitually blaspheme the name of God . An eye - witness , speak- ing of one of our own armies , says we should not wonder at their frequent defeats ...
... ship without meeting a volley of oaths , or find a warrior on land or sea who does not ha- bitually blaspheme the name of God . An eye - witness , speak- ing of one of our own armies , says we should not wonder at their frequent defeats ...
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... ship moored , or city taken , he is permitted to indulge his lusts at will . In 1380 , some English troops , while wind - bound near Portsmouth , and waiting for provisions , forcibly carried off men's wives and daughters ; and , among ...
... ship moored , or city taken , he is permitted to indulge his lusts at will . In 1380 , some English troops , while wind - bound near Portsmouth , and waiting for provisions , forcibly carried off men's wives and daughters ; and , among ...
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Page 139 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen : and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
Page 53 - 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...
Page 266 - 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 131 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, 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 194 - 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 337 - For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
Page 194 - ... 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...
Page 398 - I hope it will be lasting, and that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats : for, in my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace.
Page 53 - 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 ofZion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 54 - 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.