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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A distinguished English missionary in India attributes to us “ the honor of inventing two of the most valuable institutions that ever blessed mankind , - the Peace Society , and the Temperance Society ; and , if every American viewed ...
A distinguished English missionary in India attributes to us “ the honor of inventing two of the most valuable institutions that ever blessed mankind , - the Peace Society , and the Temperance Society ; and , if every American viewed ...
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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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Necessary for a nation's honor ! The plea of the duellest ; and , when public sentiment shall be thoroughly Christianized , it will be as disgraceful for a nation to wage war , as it is now in New England to fight a duel .
Necessary for a nation's honor ! The plea of the duellest ; and , when public sentiment shall be thoroughly Christianized , it will be as disgraceful for a nation to wage war , as it is now in New England to fight a duel .
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They are only the ordinary passions of the human heart - pride , ambition , caprice , false honor , avarice , sensuality , malice , envy and hatred . These lusts raging in the breast of a mean man , form a drunkard , an adulterer ...
They are only the ordinary passions of the human heart - pride , ambition , caprice , false honor , avarice , sensuality , malice , envy and hatred . These lusts raging in the breast of a mean man , form a drunkard , an adulterer ...
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... meekness , benevolence and peace , —those essential attributes of the Gospel , —is selfish , proud , ambitious , savage , hates other nations , despises the mass of mankind , and seeks distinction and honor on the field of battle .
... meekness , benevolence and peace , —those essential attributes of the Gospel , —is selfish , proud , ambitious , savage , hates other nations , despises the mass of mankind , and seeks distinction and honor on the field of battle .
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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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