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... fight their quarrel out , a third power , friendly to both , may offer its services as mediator ; an expedient frequently tried of late , rarely without success , and sufficient , if employed in season , to prevent more than forty ...
... fight their quarrel out , a third power , friendly to both , may offer its services as mediator ; an expedient frequently tried of late , rarely without success , and sufficient , if employed in season , to prevent more than forty ...
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... fighting us for the power to tax us , she had kept us in good humor by allowing us to dispose of our own money , and giving us now and then a little of her own by way of donation to colleges or hospitals , for cut- ting canals , or ...
... fighting us for the power to tax us , she had kept us in good humor by allowing us to dispose of our own money , and giving us now and then a little of her own by way of donation to colleges or hospitals , for cut- ting canals , or ...
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... fight a duel . Necessary for the safety of nations ? All their danger arises from the war - system itself ; and , were that system universally relinquished , there would be no aggression to resist . War necessary because nations have ...
... fight a duel . Necessary for the safety of nations ? All their danger arises from the war - system itself ; and , were that system universally relinquished , there would be no aggression to resist . War necessary because nations have ...
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... fight his accuser in single combat , or plunge his arm into boiling water , or lift a red - hot iron with his naked hand , or walk bare - footed over burning plough - shares , or pass through other trials equally severe and perilous ...
... fight his accuser in single combat , or plunge his arm into boiling water , or lift a red - hot iron with his naked hand , or walk bare - footed over burning plough - shares , or pass through other trials equally severe and perilous ...
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... fight merely to make it honorable to explain ; and that explanation , should custom so decide , might come just as well before as after fighting . So in war , the fighting , in every case of civilized warfare , is only preliminary to ...
... fight merely to make it honorable to explain ; and that explanation , should custom so decide , might come just as well before as after fighting . So in war , the fighting , in every case of civilized warfare , is only preliminary to ...
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY Apostles argument arms army battle bayonet benevolence blessing blood cause of peace century character Chris Christ Christendom Christian church civil common crime custom dead death defence destroy disputes duty earth enemies England Europe evil father favor fight fire forbearance France French friends of peace glory gospel Greece hands heart heathen heaven honor horrors human hundred idolatry individuals influence justice kill land lawfulness of war less lives mankind mass means ment military millions mind misery missionaries Moloch moral murder Napoleon nations nature navy never object officer pacific pagan passions perish precepts Prince of Peace principles profession punishment Quakers reason religion religion of peace Resist not evil rulers Russia savage says sentiment ships slaughter soldiers soul Spain spirit suffering sword Tatian TERTULLIAN thing thou thousand tion truth violence virtue war-system warrior wars whole wounded wrong