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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Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of our ...
Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of our ...
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When rulers withdraw from official intercourse , and think they must fight their quarrel out , a third power , friendly to both , may offer its services as mediator ; an expedient frequently tried of late , rarely without success , and ...
When rulers withdraw from official intercourse , and think they must fight their quarrel out , a third power , friendly to both , may offer its services as mediator ; an expedient frequently tried of late , rarely without success , and ...
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a Greece ; it has been at work , with well - nigh complete success , in the Confederacy of Switzerland , for more than five hundred years ; and , in less than two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less ...
a Greece ; it has been at work , with well - nigh complete success , in the Confederacy of Switzerland , for more than five hundred years ; and , in less than two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less ...
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chiefs of a state of warfare , and the little or no advantage obtained even by those nations which have conducted it with the most success , I have been apt to think there never has been , nor ever will be , any such thing as a good war ...
chiefs of a state of warfare , and the little or no advantage obtained even by those nations which have conducted it with the most success , I have been apt to think there never has been , nor ever will be , any such thing as a good war ...
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Should the pirate pray for success , would he not ask for the very same things ? Let us learn the soldier's duties ( ! ) from Suwarrow's Catechism , a series of directions by that great general to his soldiers .
Should the pirate pray for success , would he not ask for the very same things ? Let us learn the soldier's duties ( ! ) from Suwarrow's Catechism , a series of directions by that great general to his soldiers .
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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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