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... Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , compara- tively greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of ...
... Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , compara- tively greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of ...
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... success , and sufficient , if employed in season , to prevent more than forty - nine wars out of fifty . Christen ... successful operation for ages . was adopted , in the Amphictyonic Council of ancient It Greece ; it has been at work ...
... success , and sufficient , if employed in season , to prevent more than forty - nine wars out of fifty . Christen ... successful operation for ages . was adopted , in the Amphictyonic Council of ancient It Greece ; it has been at work ...
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... success , in the Confederacy of Switzerland , for more than five hundred years ; and , in less than two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less on the principle of such a tribunal as we propose . The ...
... success , in the Confederacy of Switzerland , for more than five hundred years ; and , in less than two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less on the principle of such a tribunal as we propose . The ...
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... success in this work of blood and desolation , ' a solemn mass was per- formed the next day , and Te Deum sung amidst the dis- charge of artillery !! ' Do facts like these give an exaggerated view of war ? No ; they will hardly enable ...
... success in this work of blood and desolation , ' a solemn mass was per- formed the next day , and Te Deum sung amidst the dis- charge of artillery !! ' Do facts like these give an exaggerated view of war ? No ; they will hardly enable ...
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... success , I have been apt to think there never has been , nor ever will be , any such thing as a good war , or a bad peace . - All wars are follies , very expensive and very mischievous ones . When will mankind be convinced of this ...
... success , I have been apt to think there never has been , nor ever will be , any such thing as a good war , or a bad peace . - All wars are follies , very expensive and very mischievous ones . When will mankind be convinced of this ...
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