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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Our revolutionary war cost England siz hundred millions of dollars ; and in the wars occasioned by the French revolution , she spent more than FIVE THOUSAND MILLIONS ! The public debt of Great Britain , incurred solely by war , is even ...
Our revolutionary war cost England siz hundred millions of dollars ; and in the wars occasioned by the French revolution , she spent more than FIVE THOUSAND MILLIONS ! The public debt of Great Britain , incurred solely by war , is even ...
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In the battle of Chalons there fell 300,000 of Attila's army alone ; in ancient times it was no very uncommon slaughter for one or two hundred thousand to be left dead on a single field ; and the Old Testament records an instance where ...
In the battle of Chalons there fell 300,000 of Attila's army alone ; in ancient times it was no very uncommon slaughter for one or two hundred thousand to be left dead on a single field ; and the Old Testament records an instance where ...
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The least complaint brings them to the gangway ; and sometimes a sailor is sentenced to receive five hundred , and even a thousand lashes , to be inflicted day after day , as he may be able to bear them . He is attended at each whipping ...
The least complaint brings them to the gangway ; and sometimes a sailor is sentenced to receive five hundred , and even a thousand lashes , to be inflicted day after day , as he may be able to bear them . He is attended at each whipping ...
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Burn villages , demolish cities , lay waste empires , send hundreds of thousands into an untimely grave , into a ruined eternity , all for the settlement of difficulties which can be adjusted only by an appeal to reason !
Burn villages , demolish cities , lay waste empires , send hundreds of thousands into an untimely grave , into a ruined eternity , all for the settlement of difficulties which can be adjusted only by an appeal to reason !
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We must study their sentiments in those moments when , distracted by a thousand excruciating pains , yet still lingering in existence , they are carried off in heaps from the fatal field where they have been mowed down by the enemy .
We must study their sentiments in those moments when , distracted by a thousand excruciating pains , yet still lingering in existence , they are carried off in heaps from the fatal field where they have been mowed down by the enemy .
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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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