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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On the second day , the temporary excitement had subsided ; and turn which way I would , I encountered every form of entreaty from those whose condition left no need of words to stir compassion : Surgeon Major , oh ! how I suffer !
On the second day , the temporary excitement had subsided ; and turn which way I would , I encountered every form of entreaty from those whose condition left no need of words to stir compassion : Surgeon Major , oh ! how I suffer !
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Whoso smiteth thee on one cheek , turn to him the other also . War bids us kill the man that smites us , or attempts to smite us . Imagine a soldier repeating the Lord's prayer . Our Father in heaven !
Whoso smiteth thee on one cheek , turn to him the other also . War bids us kill the man that smites us , or attempts to smite us . Imagine a soldier repeating the Lord's prayer . Our Father in heaven !
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Only turn the popular current ; and on its bosom war would ere - long float spontaneously from Christendom forever , just as the tide of a regenerated public sentiment has drifted away a variety of kindred practices .
Only turn the popular current ; and on its bosom war would ere - long float spontaneously from Christendom forever , just as the tide of a regenerated public sentiment has drifted away a variety of kindred practices .
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God says , if any man smite thee on one cheek , turn to him tho other also ; war says , turn not the other cheek , but knock the - P. T. NO . VI . smiter down . God says , bless those who curse No. VI .
God says , if any man smite thee on one cheek , turn to him tho other also ; war says , turn not the other cheek , but knock the - P. T. NO . VI . smiter down . God says , bless those who curse No. VI .
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Crowninshield , entering the house of his victim at midnight , and creeping softly up stairs to the room where he was sleeping , struck him over the head with a bludgeon , and then turning down the clothes , stabbed him several times in ...
Crowninshield , entering the house of his victim at midnight , and creeping softly up stairs to the room where he was sleeping , struck him over the head with a bludgeon , and then turning down the clothes , stabbed him several times in ...
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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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