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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... hand - cuffing , and other punishments in- flicted on sailors who have been trepanned or forced into a service from which death is the only release . ' The pun- ishment of soldiers is equally cruel and shocking with that of seamen ; but ...
... hand - cuffing , and other punishments in- flicted on sailors who have been trepanned or forced into a service from which death is the only release . ' The pun- ishment of soldiers is equally cruel and shocking with that of seamen ; but ...
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... hands and arms . Some , too weak to lift a piece of wood , or roll a stone towards the fire , sat down upon their dead compan- ions , and gazed with countenances unmoved upon the burn- ing logs . These livid spectres , unable to get up ...
... hands and arms . Some , too weak to lift a piece of wood , or roll a stone towards the fire , sat down upon their dead compan- ions , and gazed with countenances unmoved upon the burn- ing logs . These livid spectres , unable to get up ...
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... hands to the brink of a rivulet , and have lived nearly two months on grass and roots , and a few pieces of bread which I found among the dead bodies . At night I have lain in the carcasses of dead horses ; and with the flesh of these ...
... hands to the brink of a rivulet , and have lived nearly two months on grass and roots , and a few pieces of bread which I found among the dead bodies . At night I have lain in the carcasses of dead horses ; and with the flesh of these ...
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... hands clasped , and all bathed in tears , asked only that their lives might be spared . In another instance we saw , on one side , a son carrying a sick father , and on the other , women pour- ing the torrent of their tears upon the ...
... hands clasped , and all bathed in tears , asked only that their lives might be spared . In another instance we saw , on one side , a son carrying a sick father , and on the other , women pour- ing the torrent of their tears upon the ...
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... hands as soon as the alarm of war is sounded . Wisdom itself , the mistress of affairs , is driven from the field . Force bears sway . The statesman is despised ; the grim soldier alone is caressed . Legal pro- ceedings cease . Claims ...
... hands as soon as the alarm of war is sounded . Wisdom itself , the mistress of affairs , is driven from the field . Force bears sway . The statesman is despised ; the grim soldier alone is caressed . Legal pro- ceedings cease . Claims ...
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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.