The Herald of Peace, Volume 3Hamilton, Adams, & Company, 1821 Includes the annual reports and proceedings of several peace societies. |
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... virtue . Scipio the younger opposed the ruin of Carthage ; he foresaw that Rome , having no rival , would destroy herself , and he was not deceived . The example of Rome has also established the maxim , that a foreign war was often ...
... virtue . Scipio the younger opposed the ruin of Carthage ; he foresaw that Rome , having no rival , would destroy herself , and he was not deceived . The example of Rome has also established the maxim , that a foreign war was often ...
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... virtue . However it may disguise itself , the spirit of war is the spirit of tyrannical selfishness , and the greatest enemy to the im- provement and happiness of man . Lucy . I believe that is very true , for it makes one nation ...
... virtue . However it may disguise itself , the spirit of war is the spirit of tyrannical selfishness , and the greatest enemy to the im- provement and happiness of man . Lucy . I believe that is very true , for it makes one nation ...
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... virtue , are instilled into the minds of the people . " 4. " An incessant contention for mastery subsists in every Civil State , and especially in every overgrown Metropolis , between the laws on the one hand , and the manners of the ...
... virtue , are instilled into the minds of the people . " 4. " An incessant contention for mastery subsists in every Civil State , and especially in every overgrown Metropolis , between the laws on the one hand , and the manners of the ...
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... virtue , when committed under the shelter of public authority ; so that punishment is not rated by the measure of guilt , but the more enormous the size of the wicked- ness is , so much the greater is the chance for impunity . " 1 ...
... virtue , when committed under the shelter of public authority ; so that punishment is not rated by the measure of guilt , but the more enormous the size of the wicked- ness is , so much the greater is the chance for impunity . " 1 ...
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... virtue , as he now doth under the Gospel . Then it was permitted to take some revenge for injuries done , as to revile them that reviled us , to exact an eye for an eye , & c . But since the coming of Christ , the way to heaven is made ...
... virtue , as he now doth under the Gospel . Then it was permitted to take some revenge for injuries done , as to revile them that reviled us , to exact an eye for an eye , & c . But since the coming of Christ , the way to heaven is made ...
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Page 365 - Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip : and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Page 332 - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches ; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Page 202 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 194 - And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Page 364 - And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 365 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Page 107 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 293 - Brothers sometimes would differ : neither would he compare the Friendship between him and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.
Page 18 - For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Page 326 - But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify GOD on this behalf.