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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No theme has ever waked a purer or loftier inspiration ; and on no topic in the whole range of morals , theology , or general literature , can there be found finer specimens of taste and eloquence . We have also culled from a wide as ...
No theme has ever waked a purer or loftier inspiration ; and on no topic in the whole range of morals , theology , or general literature , can there be found finer specimens of taste and eloquence . We have also culled from a wide as ...
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They should also train up all under their care in the principles of peace , pray much for its universal prevalence , and hold forth before the whole world the light of their own consistent example . Let them do only these things ...
They should also train up all under their care in the principles of peace , pray much for its universal prevalence , and hold forth before the whole world the light of their own consistent example . Let them do only these things ...
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From 1791 to 1832 , the aggregate of our expenditures , with less than three years of actual warfare , was $ 842,250,891 ; and merely 37,158,047 , a twenty - third part of the whole , were for the civil ...
From 1791 to 1832 , the aggregate of our expenditures , with less than three years of actual warfare , was $ 842,250,891 ; and merely 37,158,047 , a twenty - third part of the whole , were for the civil ...
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His countenance was as pale as his winding - sheet , and his whole frame trembled with agony . His grave was dug , the coffin placed by its side , and the deserter , with a cap drawn over his eyes , required to kneel upon the lid .
His countenance was as pale as his winding - sheet , and his whole frame trembled with agony . His grave was dug , the coffin placed by its side , and the deserter , with a cap drawn over his eyes , required to kneel upon the lid .
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A whole city on fire is a spectacle replete with horror ; but a whole kingdom on fire must be a prospect much more terrible . And such is every kingdom in war , where nothing flourishes but rapine , blood and murder .
A whole city on fire is a spectacle replete with horror ; but a whole kingdom on fire must be a prospect much more terrible . And such is every kingdom in war , where nothing flourishes but rapine , blood and murder .
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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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