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What might please one would perhaps disgust another ; and a short essay might
arrest the attention of him who never thought of reading a treatise , on the same
subject , I do not know that any other friend of peace , has , in this country ...
What might please one would perhaps disgust another ; and a short essay might
arrest the attention of him who never thought of reading a treatise , on the same
subject , I do not know that any other friend of peace , has , in this country ...
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They will consist of such communications and hints as I may receive from
respected friends — of thoughts , which came into my own mind when the time of
their being placed in regular order with the series had elapsed - and such ideas
as may ...
They will consist of such communications and hints as I may receive from
respected friends — of thoughts , which came into my own mind when the time of
their being placed in regular order with the series had elapsed - and such ideas
as may ...
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... might please one would perhaps disgust another; and a short essay might
arrest the attention of him who never thought of reading a treatise on the same
subject. I do not know that any other friend of peace, has, in this country,
undertaken to ...
... might please one would perhaps disgust another; and a short essay might
arrest the attention of him who never thought of reading a treatise on the same
subject. I do not know that any other friend of peace, has, in this country,
undertaken to ...
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... I believe officers , were playing at backgammon , in a public coffee room , in
Paris , when one thoughtlessly replied , to the observation of the other , - what a
story ! " The other , immediately snatching up the tables , gave his friend a blow
on ...
... I believe officers , were playing at backgammon , in a public coffee room , in
Paris , when one thoughtlessly replied , to the observation of the other , - what a
story ! " The other , immediately snatching up the tables , gave his friend a blow
on ...
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fee room , words : “ Gentlemen , you think that I shall take the life of my friend , for
this rash act of -his . But , could I now see his heart , I should find it torn with
anguish and sorrow , for what he has done , and that he suffers a thousand times
...
fee room , words : “ Gentlemen , you think that I shall take the life of my friend , for
this rash act of -his . But , could I now see his heart , I should find it torn with
anguish and sorrow , for what he has done , and that he suffers a thousand times
...
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Page 158 - 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 131 - ... 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 that restores him to health - on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal - on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice - on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride...
Page 181 - The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas — a remnant of the ancient piracy — though it may be accidentally beneficial to particular persons, is far from being profitable to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it.
Page 132 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 131 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon...
Page 110 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with...
Page 111 - But at the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expense of millions, but by contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations...
Page 12 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in dang-er of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment...
Page 11 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Page 182 - ... who, besides, spend what they get in riot, drunkenness, and debauchery, lose their habits of industry, are rarely fit for any sober business after a peace, and serve only to increase the number of highwaymen and housebreakers.
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| Title | Essays on Peace & War: Which First Appeared in the Christian Mirror, Printed at Portland, Me. New Series |
| Author | William Ladd |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | A. Shirley, 1827 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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