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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We cannot flatter ourselves , that they will assent at once to every position here taken on a subject so vast , and of such various aspects and bearings ; but we feel quite sure , that every intelligent , fairminded Christian will ...
We cannot flatter ourselves , that they will assent at once to every position here taken on a subject so vast , and of such various aspects and bearings ; but we feel quite sure , that every intelligent , fairminded Christian will ...
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He is attended at each whipping by a surgeon , who determines how much can be inflicted at once without immediate danger to life ! Often does the flagellation proceed till the victim saints ; and then he is respited , to renew his ...
He is attended at each whipping by a surgeon , who determines how much can be inflicted at once without immediate danger to life ! Often does the flagellation proceed till the victim saints ; and then he is respited , to renew his ...
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We must restore the pacific principles of the gospel , and incorporate them once more , where Christ and his apostles left them , in the faith and character of his disciples as a body , before the spread of Christianity will insure the ...
We must restore the pacific principles of the gospel , and incorporate them once more , where Christ and his apostles left them , in the faith and character of his disciples as a body , before the spread of Christianity will insure the ...
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... their offspring than by the sword ; women far advanced in age , left destitute , and put to death in a worse form than if they had died at once by the point war « Do of the bayonet ; widowed mothers , orphan 8 TESTIMONIES AGAINST WAR .
... their offspring than by the sword ; women far advanced in age , left destitute , and put to death in a worse form than if they had died at once by the point war « Do of the bayonet ; widowed mothers , orphan 8 TESTIMONIES AGAINST WAR .
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Do of the bayonet ; widowed mothers , orphan children , houses of mourning , and once affluent families reduced to extreme penury . ” you detest robbery and pillage ? These are among the duties of war . Do you shudder at the idea of ...
Do of the bayonet ; widowed mothers , orphan children , houses of mourning , and once affluent families reduced to extreme penury . ” you detest robbery and pillage ? These are among the duties of war . Do you shudder at the idea of ...
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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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