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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Have you seen its nameless vices , its savage barbarities , its countless hardships , dangers , and sufferings ? Did you ever behold it firing villages , and sacking cities , and desolating province after province , and butchering men ...
Have you seen its nameless vices , its savage barbarities , its countless hardships , dangers , and sufferings ? Did you ever behold it firing villages , and sacking cities , and desolating province after province , and butchering men ...
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Glance , now , at some of the PERSONAL SUFFERINGS incident to war . Think of the violence practised in procuring seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is predominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of ...
Glance , now , at some of the PERSONAL SUFFERINGS incident to war . Think of the violence practised in procuring seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is predominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of ...
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Often does the flagellation proceed till the victim saints ; and then he is respited , to renew his sufferings another day . I have often shuddered at the recital of whippings through the fleet , the keel - hauling , the spread - eagle ...
Often does the flagellation proceed till the victim saints ; and then he is respited , to renew his sufferings another day . I have often shuddered at the recital of whippings through the fleet , the keel - hauling , the spread - eagle ...
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Imagine the sufferings incident to marches . Trace the French army in the Russian campaign . On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with ...
Imagine the sufferings incident to marches . Trace the French army in the Russian campaign . On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with ...
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Through whirlwinds of smoke , they entreated their comrades to shorten their sufferings by putting them to death ; and from motives of humanity we thought it our duty to do so ! But some still survived ; and we heard them with feeble ...
Through whirlwinds of smoke , they entreated their comrades to shorten their sufferings by putting them to death ; and from motives of humanity we thought it our duty to do so ! But some still survived ; and we heard them with feeble ...
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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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