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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Efficacy of Pacific Principles ; by Jonathan Dymond, . . . 641 61 Rights of Self-Defence 645 62. — War a Trial by Battle ; by Charles Sumner, 549 63. — True Grandeur of Nations ; by Charles Sumner, .... 653 64.
Efficacy of Pacific Principles ; by Jonathan Dymond, . . . 641 61 Rights of Self-Defence 645 62. — War a Trial by Battle ; by Charles Sumner, 549 63. — True Grandeur of Nations ; by Charles Sumner, .... 653 64.
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The principles of peace are applicable to all these relations ; but the cause of peace is concerned only with the intercourse of governments , and aims merely to prevent war between nations . Nor is such a restriction peculiar ; for it ...
The principles of peace are applicable to all these relations ; but the cause of peace is concerned only with the intercourse of governments , and aims merely to prevent war between nations . Nor is such a restriction peculiar ; for it ...
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principles as far as they please ; but the cause itself does not meddle with tea or coffee , tobacco , or opium , or animal food . It may be said , for it has been , that its principles , if carried out , would lead to the utter ...
principles as far as they please ; but the cause itself does not meddle with tea or coffee , tobacco , or opium , or animal food . It may be said , for it has been , that its principles , if carried out , would lead to the utter ...
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COMMON PRINCIPLES , OR BASIS THE FRIENDS OF PEACE . — If perfect identity of views were necessary to concert of action , there could be no such concert in any cause . Such identity does not exist in the cause of temperance or anti ...
COMMON PRINCIPLES , OR BASIS THE FRIENDS OF PEACE . — If perfect identity of views were necessary to concert of action , there could be no such concert in any cause . Such identity does not exist in the cause of temperance or anti ...
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They should also train up all under their care in the principles of peace , pray much for its universal prevalence , and hold forth before the whole world the light of their own consistent example . Let them do only these things ...
They should also train up all under their care in the principles of peace , pray much for its universal prevalence , and hold forth before the whole world the light of their own consistent example . Let them do only these things ...
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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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