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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Some of these tracts are of necessity selections , yet give both the sentiments and language of their respective authors . We have only condensed for the sake of greater brevity , economy and force . The work is truly multum in parvo ...
Some of these tracts are of necessity selections , yet give both the sentiments and language of their respective authors . We have only condensed for the sake of greater brevity , economy and force . The work is truly multum in parvo ...
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Some of these tracts are of necessity selections , yet give both the sentiments and language of their respective authors . We have only condensed for the sake of greater brevity , economy and force . The work is truly multum in parvo ...
Some of these tracts are of necessity selections , yet give both the sentiments and language of their respective authors . We have only condensed for the sake of greater brevity , economy and force . The work is truly multum in parvo ...
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We might quote from a long list of English statesmen BURKE , Fox , CANNING , MCINTOSH , and others ; but a single paragraph from a speech of Lord BROUGHAM is all we have room to give . My principles — I know not whether they agree with ...
We might quote from a long list of English statesmen BURKE , Fox , CANNING , MCINTOSH , and others ; but a single paragraph from a speech of Lord BROUGHAM is all we have room to give . My principles — I know not whether they agree with ...
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“ But how is it possible to give you an idea of its horrors ? Here you behold rich harvests , the bounty of heaven , and the reward of industry , consumed in a moment , or trampled under foot , while famine and pestilence follow in the ...
“ But how is it possible to give you an idea of its horrors ? Here you behold rich harvests , the bounty of heaven , and the reward of industry , consumed in a moment , or trampled under foot , while famine and pestilence follow in the ...
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Will you acknowledge yourself to be such an insatiate blood - leech , that you never can , never will give up war ? No ; you abhor the custom , and would gladly supersede it entirely by better methods for the adjustment of national ...
Will you acknowledge yourself to be such an insatiate blood - leech , that you never can , never will give up war ? No ; you abhor the custom , and would gladly supersede it entirely by better methods for the adjustment of national ...
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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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