A Brief Illustration of the Principles of War and Peace: Showing the Ruinous Policy of the Former, and the Superior Efficacy of the Latter, for National Protection and Defence; Clearly Manifested by Their Practical Operations and Opposite Effects Upon Nations, Kingdoms and PeoplePackard and Van Benthuysen, 1831 - 112 pages |
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... warlike achievements . Scarce- ly a country can be found which has not been more or less infected with the war mania , and whose inhabitants have not , at some period or other , experienced its destructive and horrid effects . And yet ...
... warlike achievements . Scarce- ly a country can be found which has not been more or less infected with the war mania , and whose inhabitants have not , at some period or other , experienced its destructive and horrid effects . And yet ...
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... war - like principles and preparations , so far from ensuring protection and defence , or even producing any sub- stantial benefit to a warring nation , have , in the final issue , invariably operated to the contrary , and proved the ...
... war - like principles and preparations , so far from ensuring protection and defence , or even producing any sub- stantial benefit to a warring nation , have , in the final issue , invariably operated to the contrary , and proved the ...
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... warlike power of other nations . " But an im- partial review of the history of all ages , will prove the total fallacy of these maxims . It is not difficult to prove , if facts can prove any thing , that wars and warlike preparations ...
... warlike power of other nations . " But an im- partial review of the history of all ages , will prove the total fallacy of these maxims . It is not difficult to prove , if facts can prove any thing , that wars and warlike preparations ...
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... warlike nation . We are informed by Rollin that , " Its inhabitants , content with a country which abound- ed in all things , had no ambitious dreams of conquest . The Egyptians extended their reputation in a very different man- They ...
... warlike nation . We are informed by Rollin that , " Its inhabitants , content with a country which abound- ed in all things , had no ambitious dreams of conquest . The Egyptians extended their reputation in a very different man- They ...
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... warlike prepa- rations of Assyria ? They served only to exalt her pride and ambition , corrupt her moral principles , and fit her for destruction . After running her race of glory , she was visited by aveng- ing armies , and compelled ...
... warlike prepa- rations of Assyria ? They served only to exalt her pride and ambition , corrupt her moral principles , and fit her for destruction . After running her race of glory , she was visited by aveng- ing armies , and compelled ...
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Page 57 - Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while ye be with him: and if ye seek him, he will be found of you: but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
Page 23 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 20 - Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Page 12 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 43 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 59 - Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude ; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
Page 59 - O our God, wilt thou not judge them ? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us ; neither know we what to do : but our eyes are upon thee.
Page 56 - A'sa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power...
Page 19 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Page 58 - LORD, he delivered them into thine hand. 9For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.