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... murdered in cold blood . Some were burnt alive , and all the survivors subjected to a series of such extreme privations and suf ferings as thinned their ranks with fearful rapidity . Fa- " its ordinary atrocities and horrors . Such ...
... murdered in cold blood . Some were burnt alive , and all the survivors subjected to a series of such extreme privations and suf ferings as thinned their ranks with fearful rapidity . Fa- " its ordinary atrocities and horrors . Such ...
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... murders a single victim , is deemed worthy of the gallows , what must be the criminality of nations in continuing a custom which multiplies such crimes and woes by thousands and by millions ! On whom do the evils of war fall ? Are its ...
... murders a single victim , is deemed worthy of the gallows , what must be the criminality of nations in continuing a custom which multiplies such crimes and woes by thousands and by millions ! On whom do the evils of war fall ? Are its ...
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... murder . We cannot make a more lively representation and emblem to ourselves of hell , than by the view of a kingdom ... murders , and left mankind to be massacred according to the humor and appetite of unjust and unreasonable men . It ...
... murder . We cannot make a more lively representation and emblem to ourselves of hell , than by the view of a kingdom ... murders , and left mankind to be massacred according to the humor and appetite of unjust and unreasonable men . It ...
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... murder , to destroy human felicity ; and , for so doing , he shall be rewarded . The period will assuredly arrive , when better instructed generations will require all the evidence of history to credit , that in times deeming themselves ...
... murder , to destroy human felicity ; and , for so doing , he shall be rewarded . The period will assuredly arrive , when better instructed generations will require all the evidence of history to credit , that in times deeming themselves ...
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... murder , which might be demanded of them ; and that such men - destroyers were marked out as the eminent and illustrious , as the worthy of laurels and monuments , of eloquence and poetry . " MEN OF LETTERS . age , wrote against war ...
... murder , which might be demanded of them ; and that such men - destroyers were marked out as the eminent and illustrious , as the worthy of laurels and monuments , of eloquence and poetry . " MEN OF LETTERS . age , wrote against war ...
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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