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 ought more especially to study their sentiments on board those ships on fire , in which there is but a moment between them and the most cruel death ; and on those ramparts where subterraneous explosion announces , that they are in an ...
We ought more especially to study their sentiments on board those ships on fire , in which there is but a moment between them and the most cruel death ; and on those ramparts where subterraneous explosion announces , that they are in an ...
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... and also human skulls broken bones unburied and putrefying dead bodies — hospitals crowded with sick and wounded soldiers villages on fire mothers in besieged towns eating the flesh of their children - ships sinking in the – rivers ...
... and also human skulls broken bones unburied and putrefying dead bodies — hospitals crowded with sick and wounded soldiers villages on fire mothers in besieged towns eating the flesh of their children - ships sinking in the – rivers ...
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War is a school of impiety and profaneness ; blasphemy is the well - known dialect of the army and navy ; you can hardly enter a camp or a war - ship without meeting a volley of oaths , or find warrior on land or sea who does not ...
War is a school of impiety and profaneness ; blasphemy is the well - known dialect of the army and navy ; you can hardly enter a camp or a war - ship without meeting a volley of oaths , or find warrior on land or sea who does not ...
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It is deemed the soldier's privilege ; and , wherever an army is encamped , a war - ship moored or i city taken , he is permitted to indulge his lusts at will . In 1380 , some English troops , while wind - bound near Portsmouth ...
It is deemed the soldier's privilege ; and , wherever an army is encamped , a war - ship moored or i city taken , he is permitted to indulge his lusts at will . In 1380 , some English troops , while wind - bound near Portsmouth ...
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Great Britain has often sent fleets , and fire - ships , and bombs , and armed men to burn and destroy cities , and put the defenders to death . The natural consequence has been , that multitudes of them have been slain ; numerous ...
Great Britain has often sent fleets , and fire - ships , and bombs , and armed men to burn and destroy cities , and put the defenders to death . The natural consequence has been , that multitudes of them have been slain ; numerous ...
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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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