A Solemn Review of the Custom of War: Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion, and Proposing a RemedyHilliard and Metcalf, 1816 - 32 ページ |
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... duellist usually has the generosity to do his own fighting , but war makers usually have the meanness to avoid the dangers which they create , and to call on other people to fight their battles . Duelling is indeed a horrible custom ...
... duellist usually has the generosity to do his own fighting , but war makers usually have the meanness to avoid the dangers which they create , and to call on other people to fight their battles . Duelling is indeed a horrible custom ...
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... duellists . The custom is so far from being honorable or a compliance with it an indication of a generous mind , that it is an indication of petulance and malignity unbecoming any man of honor . By a conformity to this custom , men do ...
... duellists . The custom is so far from being honorable or a compliance with it an indication of a generous mind , that it is an indication of petulance and malignity unbecoming any man of honor . By a conformity to this custom , men do ...
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... duellists . fences may be called either great or small only by comparison ; and to make a fair estimate in the two cases , we should com- pare the offences with the probable consequences of an appeal to arms . The offences for which ...
... duellists . fences may be called either great or small only by comparison ; and to make a fair estimate in the two cases , we should com- pare the offences with the probable consequences of an appeal to arms . The offences for which ...
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... duellist from the lips of a ruler ? You have admitted that duelling is practised in support of false principles of honor , and that the sacrifices thus made are wanton and needless . But an appeal to arms in vindication of honor , is no ...
... duellist from the lips of a ruler ? You have admitted that duelling is practised in support of false principles of honor , and that the sacrifices thus made are wanton and needless . But an appeal to arms in vindication of honor , is no ...
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... duellist raises his own character when he gives a challenge , fights bravely , injures his antagonist , receives a wound which must be a burden for life , and then makes peace without any other concession or re- compense . P. I will not ...
... duellist raises his own character when he gives a challenge , fights bravely , injures his antagonist , receives a wound which must be a burden for life , and then makes peace without any other concession or re- compense . P. I will not ...
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7 ページ - Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
40 ページ - Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
5 ページ - Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
7 ページ - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
36 ページ - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations...
32 ページ - Ye lust, and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
19 ページ - Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
26 ページ - But be not ye called Rabbi : for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters : for one is your Master, even Christ.
2 ページ - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
7 ページ - For he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.