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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Several states are already converted , as it were , into a vast body of barracks ; and the successive augmentation of disciplined armies will be sure to increase taxes , fear , and slavery in the same proportion .
Several states are already converted , as it were , into a vast body of barracks ; and the successive augmentation of disciplined armies will be sure to increase taxes , fear , and slavery in the same proportion .
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OF VIRTUE . cottages of peasants given up to the flames ; mothers expiring through fear not for themselves , but their infants ; the inhabitants flying with their helpless babes in all directions , miserable fugitives on their native ...
OF VIRTUE . cottages of peasants given up to the flames ; mothers expiring through fear not for themselves , but their infants ; the inhabitants flying with their helpless babes in all directions , miserable fugitives on their native ...
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Is not war a vast engine of vengeance ? t proceeds in all cases on the principle of injuring others , either because they have injured us , or because we fear they will , unless we prevent it by injuring them in advance Love your ...
Is not war a vast engine of vengeance ? t proceeds in all cases on the principle of injuring others , either because they have injured us , or because we fear they will , unless we prevent it by injuring them in advance Love your ...
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Fear had rendered their grief dumb ; and as they tremblingly quitted their retreats , they carried off their most valuable effects , while those of more sensibility , actuated by natural feelings , sought only to save the lives of their ...
Fear had rendered their grief dumb ; and as they tremblingly quitted their retreats , they carried off their most valuable effects , while those of more sensibility , actuated by natural feelings , sought only to save the lives of their ...
Page 104
... it is not because they inspire fear , but because , as every nation commits the same folly , a tacit understanding seems to exist that they will not take this distrustful precaution as an insult from each other . 5.
... it is not because they inspire fear , but because , as every nation commits the same folly , a tacit understanding seems to exist that they will not take this distrustful precaution as an insult from each other . 5.
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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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