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... sufferings ? Did you ever behold it firing villages , and sacking cities , and desolating province after province , and butchering men , women , and children , by thousands ? If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you ...
... sufferings ? Did you ever behold it firing villages , and sacking cities , and desolating province after province , and butchering men , women , and children , by thousands ? If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you ...
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... SUFFERINGS incident to war . Think of the violence practised in pro- curing seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is pre- dominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of their rulers , and doomed to all the ...
... SUFFERINGS incident to war . Think of the violence practised in pro- curing seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is pre- dominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of their rulers , and doomed to all the ...
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... sufferings an- other day . I have often shuddered at the recital of whip- pings through the fleet , the keel - hauling , the spread - eagle , the gagging , the hand - cuffing , and other punishments in- flicted on sailors who have been ...
... sufferings an- other day . I have often shuddered at the recital of whip- pings through the fleet , the keel - hauling , the spread - eagle , the gagging , the hand - cuffing , and other punishments in- flicted on sailors who have been ...
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... sufferings , and from the infection of the air by putrefied carcasses of men and horses that strewed the roads , there sprang two dreadful epidemics , the dysentery and typhus fever . So fatal were these combined causes , that of 22,000 ...
... sufferings , and from the infection of the air by putrefied carcasses of men and horses that strewed the roads , there sprang two dreadful epidemics , the dysentery and typhus fever . So fatal were these combined causes , that of 22,000 ...
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... sufferings of the wounded left after battle on the open field , or crowded into hospitals , are shocking . Fifty days after the battle of Borodino , no less than 20,000 of the slain were found lying where they had fallen ; and the whole ...
... sufferings of the wounded left after battle on the open field , or crowded into hospitals , are shocking . Fifty days after the battle of Borodino , no less than 20,000 of the slain were found lying where they had fallen ; and the whole ...
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY Apostles argument arms army battle bayonet benevolence blessing blood cause of peace century character Chris Christ Christendom Christian church civil common crime custom dead death defence destroy disputes duty earth enemies England Europe evil father favor fight fire forbearance France French friends of peace glory gospel Greece hands heart heathen heaven honor horrors human hundred idolatry individuals influence justice kill land lawfulness of war less lives mankind mass means ment military millions mind misery missionaries Moloch moral murder Napoleon nations nature navy never object officer pacific pagan passions perish precepts Prince of Peace principles profession punishment Quakers reason religion religion of peace Resist not evil rulers Russia savage says sentiment ships slaughter soldiers soul Spain spirit suffering sword Tatian TERTULLIAN thing thou thousand tion truth violence virtue war-system warrior wars whole wounded wrong