The Friend of Peace: To which is Prefixed A Solemn Review of the Custom of War; Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion, and Proposing a RemedyAnsel Phelps, 1817 - 281 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... human agency and human means . God only could have overthrown the empire of Napoleon ; but this he did by granting suc- cess to the efforts of the allied powers . He only could have produced such a change in the views of the British ...
... human agency and human means . God only could have overthrown the empire of Napoleon ; but this he did by granting suc- cess to the efforts of the allied powers . He only could have produced such a change in the views of the British ...
Pàgina 5
... human race ? It is not the present object to prove , that a nation may not defend their lives , their liberties and their property against an invading foe ; but to inquire whether it is not possible to effect such a change in the views ...
... human race ? It is not the present object to prove , that a nation may not defend their lives , their liberties and their property against an invading foe ; but to inquire whether it is not possible to effect such a change in the views ...
Pàgina 7
... human beings to false notions of national honor or to the ambition or avarice of rulers , it no better than to offer them to Moloch , or any other heathen deity . As soon as the eyes of people can be opened to see that war is the effect ...
... human beings to false notions of national honor or to the ambition or avarice of rulers , it no better than to offer them to Moloch , or any other heathen deity . As soon as the eyes of people can be opened to see that war is the effect ...
Pàgina 13
... human character than the custom of war ? What is that feeling usually called a war spirit , but a deleterious compound of enthusiastic ardor , ambition , malignity and revenge ? a compound , which as really endangers the soul of the ...
... human character than the custom of war ? What is that feeling usually called a war spirit , but a deleterious compound of enthusiastic ardor , ambition , malignity and revenge ? a compound , which as really endangers the soul of the ...
Pàgina 14
... human life ought to be mentioned . This effect may appear in various forms . the redress of some wrong , in regard to property , if noth- ing but property be taken into consideration , the result is not commonly better , than spending ...
... human life ought to be mentioned . This effect may appear in various forms . the redress of some wrong , in regard to property , if noth- ing but property be taken into consideration , the result is not commonly better , than spending ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 202 - 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 ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Pàgina 202 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace...
Pàgina 203 - Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Pàgina 193 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Pàgina 67 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 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.
Pàgina 217 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Pàgina 104 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps...
Pàgina 217 - ... for he is the 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. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Pàgina 217 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Pàgina 53 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands; and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; All sheep and oxen ; yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea ; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.