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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Peace and Government ; by Geo . C. Beckwith , 425 50. - Criminality of War ; by Howard Malcom , D D. , 433 • 51. - War a Destroyer of Souls , 449 • 52.- War and the Hearth , or the Influence of War on Domestic Happiness 457 & G 229 60 .
Peace and Government ; by Geo . C. Beckwith , 425 50. - Criminality of War ; by Howard Malcom , D D. , 433 • 51. - War a Destroyer of Souls , 449 • 52.- War and the Hearth , or the Influence of War on Domestic Happiness 457 & G 229 60 .
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Kindred efforts have been made to some extent in France , in Switzerland , and other parts of Christendom ; and their influence has reached the extremities of the civilized world , and been felt in some degree by nations never blest ...
Kindred efforts have been made to some extent in France , in Switzerland , and other parts of Christendom ; and their influence has reached the extremities of the civilized world , and been felt in some degree by nations never blest ...
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Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings of nations as well as of individuals , and that we shall at length be sensible , that war is an instrument entirely inefficient towards redressing wrong ...
Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings of nations as well as of individuals , and that we shall at length be sensible , that war is an instrument entirely inefficient towards redressing wrong ...
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These truths are palpable , and must in the progress of time have their influence on the minds and conduct of nations . ” We might quote from a long list of English statesmen BURKE , Fox , CANNING , MCINTOSH , and others ; but a single ...
These truths are palpable , and must in the progress of time have their influence on the minds and conduct of nations . ” We might quote from a long list of English statesmen BURKE , Fox , CANNING , MCINTOSH , and others ; but a single ...
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Bishop Watson exclaims , “ Would to God that the spirit of the Christian religion would exert its influence over the hearts of individuals in their public capacity , as much as , we trust , it does over their conduct in private life !
Bishop Watson exclaims , “ Would to God that the spirit of the Christian religion would exert its influence over the hearts of individuals in their public capacity , as much as , we trust , it does over their conduct in private life !
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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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