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 10
... reason , than to conquer the world by the edge of the sword ! દ A second plea in favor of the custom of war may be this that war is an advantage to a nation , as it usually takes off many vicious and dangerous characters . But does not ...
... reason , than to conquer the world by the edge of the sword ! દ A second plea in favor of the custom of war may be this that war is an advantage to a nation , as it usually takes off many vicious and dangerous characters . But does not ...
Pàgina 11
... reasons for avoid- ing an appeal to the sword , for the redress of wrongs , always great in proportion to the calamities , which such an appeal must naturally involve ? If this be a fact , then there is infinitely greater reason , why ...
... reasons for avoid- ing an appeal to the sword , for the redress of wrongs , always great in proportion to the calamities , which such an appeal must naturally involve ? If this be a fact , then there is infinitely greater reason , why ...
Pàgina 17
... reason can be given , why this mode of deciding controversies would not be as proper when there were but ten families , as when there were ten thousand . And why might not two individuals thus decide disputes , as well as two nations ...
... reason can be given , why this mode of deciding controversies would not be as proper when there were but ten families , as when there were ten thousand . And why might not two individuals thus decide disputes , as well as two nations ...
Pàgina 19
... reason each of two governments endeavors to fix on the other the charge of aggression , and to assume to itself the ground of defending some right , or avenging some wrong . Thus each excuses itself , and charges the other with all the ...
... reason each of two governments endeavors to fix on the other the charge of aggression , and to assume to itself the ground of defending some right , or avenging some wrong . Thus each excuses itself , and charges the other with all the ...
Pàgina 20
... reason why it should not be countenanced , that it involves the innocent with the guilty in the calamities it inflicts ; and often falls with the greatest vengeance on those , who have had no concern in the management of national ...
... reason why it should not be countenanced , that it involves the innocent with the guilty in the calamities it inflicts ; and often falls with the greatest vengeance on those , who have had no concern in the management of national ...
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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.