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If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you with a brief sketch of its
NATURE AND EFFECTS . I . Mark , then , THE WASTE OF PROPERTY BY WAR .
It not only demands for its support vast sums of money , but dries up the main ...
If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you with a brief sketch of its
NATURE AND EFFECTS . I . Mark , then , THE WASTE OF PROPERTY BY WAR .
It not only demands for its support vast sums of money , but dries up the main ...
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They who allow no war to be lawful , have consulted both nature and religion
much better than they who think it may be entered into to comply with the
ambition , covetousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon
earth ; as ...
They who allow no war to be lawful , have consulted both nature and religion
much better than they who think it may be entered into to comply with the
ambition , covetousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon
earth ; as ...
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Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a
waste of the blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow -
creatures ? — Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other
respects .
Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a
waste of the blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow -
creatures ? — Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other
respects .
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I deem it to include all others — violence , blood , rapine , fraud , every thing
which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man .
” PHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van
of ...
I deem it to include all others — violence , blood , rapine , fraud , every thing
which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man .
” PHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van
of ...
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Do you regard debauchery , rapes , incest , and crimes of a dye still deeper than
these , as foul disgraces to human nature ? Depend upon it , war leads to all of
them in their most aggravated atrocity . Is impiety , or a total neglect of religion ,
the ...
Do you regard debauchery , rapes , incest , and crimes of a dye still deeper than
these , as foul disgraces to human nature ? Depend upon it , war leads to all of
them in their most aggravated atrocity . Is impiety , or a total neglect of religion ,
the ...
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