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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It is not only conflict unto death , but conflict between governments alone ; ' and neither a parent or teacher chastising his child or his pupil , nor a father defending his family against the midnight assassin , nor a traveller ...
It is not only conflict unto death , but conflict between governments alone ; ' and neither a parent or teacher chastising his child or his pupil , nor a father defending his family against the midnight assassin , nor a traveller ...
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The miserable man , with a horrid scream , leaped from the earth , and fell between his coffin and his grave . The sergeant , to insure immediate death , shot him through the head , holding his musket so near that the cap took fire ...
The miserable man , with a horrid scream , leaped from the earth , and fell between his coffin and his grave . The sergeant , to insure immediate death , shot him through the head , holding his musket so near that the cap took fire ...
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We ought more especially to study their sentiments on board those 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 ...
We ought more especially to study their sentiments on board those 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 ...
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... the slave - trader is put under the ban of the civilized world as fit only for the gallows ; and , though Africa still bleeds at many a pore from the same cause , yet that practice has doubtless received its death - blow .
... the slave - trader is put under the ban of the civilized world as fit only for the gallows ; and , though Africa still bleeds at many a pore from the same cause , yet that practice has doubtless received its death - blow .
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himself be put to death , he nevertheless enters into the bloody compact , not knowing but he may be ordered to shoot or stab his own parents , wife or children . Not so bad the assassin's bargain . Had Crowninshield engaged to kill at ...
himself be put to death , he nevertheless enters into the bloody compact , not knowing but he may be ordered to shoot or stab his own parents , wife or children . Not so bad the assassin's bargain . Had Crowninshield engaged to kill at ...
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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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