The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and PeaceGeorge Cone Beckwith |
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Page 51
... kill whom- soever they may wish to have killed , and promise to give you , besides your food and clothing , some ten or twenty cents a day . The nation , indignant that the Chinese spurn their opium , or that the Afghans reject their ...
... kill whom- soever they may wish to have killed , and promise to give you , besides your food and clothing , some ten or twenty cents a day . The nation , indignant that the Chinese spurn their opium , or that the Afghans reject their ...
Page 52
... kill at any time any body whom the Knapps might wish to have killed , with the understanding that he should himself be put to death if he ever refused to kill any one they should bid , there would be a pretty close analogy between his ...
... kill at any time any body whom the Knapps might wish to have killed , with the understanding that he should himself be put to death if he ever refused to kill any one they should bid , there would be a pretty close analogy between his ...
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... kill in self - defence , then have I no more right to transgress the command , thou shalt not kill , than I have to renounce Christianity , or violate any and all the other pre- cepts of the Bible . — But let me suppose myself in a ...
... kill in self - defence , then have I no more right to transgress the command , thou shalt not kill , than I have to renounce Christianity , or violate any and all the other pre- cepts of the Bible . — But let me suppose myself in a ...
Contents
War Curable | 12 |
6 Four Aspects of War | 49 |
10Russian Campaign | 90 |
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