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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... expenses of governing every nation on earth , to furnish every family in the world with a Bible , to provide the means of common education for all its children , and to support one minister of the gospel for every thousand souls .
... expenses of governing every nation on earth , to furnish every family in the world with a Bible , to provide the means of common education for all its children , and to support one minister of the gospel for every thousand souls .
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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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Let the pulpit and the press proclaim , with trumpet - tongue , the folly , guilt , and horrors of war before every Christian community on earth . Let instructors in all Christian seminaries of learning ...
Let the pulpit and the press proclaim , with trumpet - tongue , the folly , guilt , and horrors of war before every Christian community on earth . Let instructors in all Christian seminaries of learning ...
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... covetousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon earth ; as if God had inhibited only single murders , and left mankind to be massacred according to the humor and appetite of unjust and unreasonable men .
... covetousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon earth ; as if God had inhibited only single murders , and left mankind to be massacred according to the humor and appetite of unjust and unreasonable men .
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But the earth has covered them , the sea has swallowed them up , and we think of them no more . What unfeeling survivors we are ! While we walk over mutilated bodies , and shattered bones , we exult in the glory and honor of ...
But the earth has covered them , the sea has swallowed them up , and we think of them no more . What unfeeling survivors we are ! While we walk over mutilated bodies , and shattered bones , we exult in the glory and honor of ...
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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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