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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Often has a single march cut off more than half of an army . The hardships of war shorten from ten to twenty years the life of those who escape the sword , and thus occasion an immense loss that is never reckoned in the usual estimates ...
Often has a single march cut off more than half of an army . The hardships of war shorten from ten to twenty years the life of those who escape the sword , and thus occasion an immense loss that is never reckoned in the usual estimates ...
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Trace the French army in the Russian campaign . On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with hunger and fatigue .
Trace the French army in the Russian campaign . On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with hunger and fatigue .
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An army after its capture is often doomed to every variety of suffering . A French army in Spain had no sooner grounded their arms , than multitudes were murdered in cold blood . Some were burnt alive , and all the ...
An army after its capture is often doomed to every variety of suffering . A French army in Spain had no sooner grounded their arms , than multitudes were murdered in cold blood . Some were burnt alive , and all the ...
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Does it not thus dethrone Jehovah from the hearts of an army ? Are not soldiers notorious for their neglect of God ? Can war be any thing else than a vast nursery of irreligion ! Every man , whether a private , an officer , or even a ...
Does it not thus dethrone Jehovah from the hearts of an army ? Are not soldiers notorious for their neglect of God ? Can war be any thing else than a vast nursery of irreligion ! Every man , whether a private , an officer , or even a ...
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It is deemed the soldier's privilege ; and , wherever an army is encamped , a war - ship moored or i city taken , he is permitted to indulge his lusts at will . In 1380 , some English troops , while wind - bound near Portsmouth ...
It is deemed the soldier's privilege ; and , wherever an army is encamped , a war - ship moored or i city taken , he is permitted to indulge his lusts at will . In 1380 , some English troops , while wind - bound near Portsmouth ...
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| Title | The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace History of international law |
| Author | American Peace Society |
| Editor | George Cone Beckwith |
| Publisher | G.C.Beckwith, 1845 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 609 pages |
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