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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 ! Dress my ...
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 ! Dress my ...
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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 ! And does the soldier , while butchering men ...
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 ! And does the soldier , while butchering men ...
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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 . - But do you deem it ...
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 . - But do you deem it ...
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God enjoins forgiveness , and forbids revenge ; while war scorns the former , and
commands the latter . God says , resist not evil ; war says , you may and must
resist evil . God says , if any man smite thee on one cheek , turn to him tho other ...
God enjoins forgiveness , and forbids revenge ; while war scorns the former , and
commands the latter . God says , resist not evil ; war says , you may and must
resist evil . God says , if any man smite thee on one cheek , turn to him tho other ...
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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 the ...
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 the ...
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