Addresses on WarPublished for the International Union, Ginn & Company, 1904 - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 - 319 pages |
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... individuals . Re- turning to Boston after his two years and a half in Europe , he tells of the little meeting of the American Peace Society to which he found his way in the very month of his arrival . " The Rev. Henry Ware was in the ...
... individuals . Re- turning to Boston after his two years and a half in Europe , he tells of the little meeting of the American Peace Society to which he found his way in the very month of his arrival . " The Rev. Henry Ware was in the ...
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... individuals , between cities , between counties , and between provinces , being recognized in all these cases as the arbiter of justice , but at last yielded to a judicial tribunal , and now , in the progress of civilization , the time ...
... individuals , between cities , between counties , and between provinces , being recognized in all these cases as the arbiter of justice , but at last yielded to a judicial tribunal , and now , in the progress of civilization , the time ...
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... individuals , between towns , and between smaller communities , may be extended to nations . Who can doubt that more and more , as days go on , the attention of the students of Harvard Uni- versity will be drawn to Sumner's last solemn ...
... individuals , between towns , and between smaller communities , may be extended to nations . Who can doubt that more and more , as days go on , the attention of the students of Harvard Uni- versity will be drawn to Sumner's last solemn ...
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... individuals , is deter- mined by the extent to which these evil dispositions are restrained . Nor does the teacher ever more truly per- form his high office than when , recognizing the suprem- acy of the moral and intellectual , he ...
... individuals , is deter- mined by the extent to which these evil dispositions are restrained . Nor does the teacher ever more truly per- form his high office than when , recognizing the suprem- acy of the moral and intellectual , he ...
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... individuals or nations . To appreciate this evil , and the necessity for its overthrow , it will be our duty , fourthly , to consider in succession the various prejudices by which it is sus- tained , ending with that prejudice , so ...
... individuals or nations . To appreciate this evil , and the necessity for its overthrow , it will be our duty , fourthly , to consider in succession the various prejudices by which it is sus- tained , ending with that prejudice , so ...
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Page 1 - THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS. AN ORATION BEFORE THE AUTHORITIES OF THE CITY OF BOSTON, JULY 4, 1845. 0, yet a nobler task awaits thy hand, (For what can war but endless war still breed?) Till truth and right from violence be freed. MILTON, Sonnet to Fairfax. Pax optima rernm
Page 61 - and when, again, giving to the sentiment its strongest and most popular expression, he exclaims, — " Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly toßnd quarrel in a straw, When
Page 115 - Savages could hardly live in greater distrust. Let now the Poet of Chivalry describe another scene : — " Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jed wood axe at
Page 229 - safeguard, until, by the overthrow of the War System, they comprehend the Commonwealth of Nations, — " And Sovereign LAW, the WORLD'S collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 133 - PARK STREET CHURCH, BOSTON, MAY 28, 1849. That it may please Thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord. — THE LITANY. What angel shall descend to reconcile The Christian states, and end their guilty toil
Page 136 - Let the soldier be abroad, if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed
Page xxvii - Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
Page 120 - A milk-white hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Page 137 - A day will come when the only battle-field will be the market open to commerce and the mind opening to new ideas. A day will come when bullets and bomb-shells will be replaced by votes, by the universal suffrage of nations, by the venerable arbitration of a great Sovereign Senate, which
Page 136 - ils ont inventé de belles règles qu'on appelle l'art militaire: ils ont attaché à la pratique de ces règles la gloire, ou la plus solide réputation; et ils ont depuis enchéri de siècle en siècle sur la manière de se détruire réciproquement. — LA