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... army of pacificators . " Ecclesiastical bodies , representing nearly every Christian denomination in our country , have borne their testimony to this cause , -Congregationalists , both Unitarian and Orthodox , Baptists , Presbyterians ...
... army of pacificators . " Ecclesiastical bodies , representing nearly every Christian denomination in our country , have borne their testimony to this cause , -Congregationalists , both Unitarian and Orthodox , Baptists , Presbyterians ...
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... army in the Russian campaign . On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with hunger and fatigue . From such sufferings , and from the ...
... army in the Russian campaign . On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with hunger and fatigue . From such sufferings , and from the ...
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... army after its capture is often doomed to every variety of suffering . A French army in Spain had no sooner grounded their arms , than multitudes were murdered in cold blood . Some were burnt alive , and all the survivors subjected to a ...
... army after its capture is often doomed to every variety of suffering . A French army in Spain had no sooner grounded their arms , than multitudes were murdered in cold blood . Some were burnt alive , and all the survivors subjected to a ...
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... army on their march to Moscow approach- ed Rouza , we met , ' says one of them , a great number of carts brought back by the cavalry , loaded with children , the aged , and the infirm . In our advance to the centre of the town , we ...
... army on their march to Moscow approach- ed Rouza , we met , ' says one of them , a great number of carts brought back by the cavalry , loaded with children , the aged , and the infirm . In our advance to the centre of the town , we ...
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... army ? Are not soldiers notorious for their neglect of God ? Can war be any thing else than a vast nursery of irreligion ? Every man , whether a private , an officer , or even a chaplain , is bound by his oath to yield implicit obe ...
... army ? Are not soldiers notorious for their neglect of God ? Can war be any thing else than a vast nursery of irreligion ? Every man , whether a private , an officer , or even a chaplain , is bound by his oath to yield implicit obe ...
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