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... less by its agents in pleading the claims of this great evangelical enterprise . - I. HOW MUCH ACCOMPLISHED ALREADY . - Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , compara- tively greater than in any kindred enterprise ...
... less by its agents in pleading the claims of this great evangelical enterprise . - I. HOW MUCH ACCOMPLISHED ALREADY . - Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , compara- tively greater than in any kindred enterprise ...
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... less than two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less on the principle of such a tribunal as we propose . The thing can be done , and will be , whenever the voice of Christen- dom shall demand it ...
... less than two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less on the principle of such a tribunal as we propose . The thing can be done , and will be , whenever the voice of Christen- dom shall demand it ...
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... less than forty or fifty millions of dol- lars every year . Our revolutionary war cost England six hundred millions of dollars ; and in the wars occasioned by the French revolution , she spent more than FIVE THOUSAND MILLIONS ! The ...
... less than forty or fifty millions of dol- lars every year . Our revolutionary war cost England six hundred millions of dollars ; and in the wars occasioned by the French revolution , she spent more than FIVE THOUSAND MILLIONS ! The ...
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... less frequent . Canada might have been purchased from France for a tenth part of the money England spent in the conquest of it ; and if , instead of fighting us for the power to tax us , she had kept us in good humor by allowing us to ...
... less frequent . Canada might have been purchased from France for a tenth part of the money England spent in the conquest of it ; and if , instead of fighting us for the power to tax us , she had kept us in good humor by allowing us to ...
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... less than a TEMPORARY REPEAL OF THE PRINCIPLES OF VIRTUE . It is a system out of which almost all the vir- tues are excluded , and in which nearly all the vices are in- cluded . Whatever renders human nature amiable or re- spectable ...
... less than a TEMPORARY REPEAL OF THE PRINCIPLES OF VIRTUE . It is a system out of which almost all the vir- tues are excluded , and in which nearly all the vices are in- cluded . Whatever renders human nature amiable or re- spectable ...
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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