The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and PeaceGeorge Cone Beckwith |
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Page 351
... Quakers , firm in their faith , did continue neutral and pacific , friends to all , enemies to none . Anticipating the storm , they had prepared to meet it by girding themselves anew with their principles , by destroying what- ever ...
... Quakers , firm in their faith , did continue neutral and pacific , friends to all , enemies to none . Anticipating the storm , they had prepared to meet it by girding themselves anew with their principles , by destroying what- ever ...
Page 542
... Quakers were preserved even to a proverb ; and when stran- gers passed through the streets of ruin , and observed a house standing uninjured and alone , they would sometimes point , and " That doubtless is the house of a Quaker . " say ...
... Quakers were preserved even to a proverb ; and when stran- gers passed through the streets of ruin , and observed a house standing uninjured and alone , they would sometimes point , and " That doubtless is the house of a Quaker . " say ...
Page 543
... Quakers would not be the fate of all who should adopt their conduct . If there be such a reason , let us hear it . The American and Irish Quakers were , to the rest of the community , what one nation is to a continent . We do not say ...
... Quakers would not be the fate of all who should adopt their conduct . If there be such a reason , let us hear it . The American and Irish Quakers were , to the rest of the community , what one nation is to a continent . We do not say ...
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War Curable | 12 |
6 Four Aspects of War | 49 |
10Russian Campaign | 90 |
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