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 sidor |
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... lives , and the sufferings and misery brought upon families and individuals , must have exceeded all cal- culation . It is stated by historians that , on extraordinary occasions , he caused the kings and chiefs of the conquered nations ...
... lives , and the sufferings and misery brought upon families and individuals , must have exceeded all cal- culation . It is stated by historians that , on extraordinary occasions , he caused the kings and chiefs of the conquered nations ...
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... lives was immense . Tho the city of Babylon stood many years after this ; yet it was in subjection to the Medes and Persians . But the Babylonians at length rebelling against their conquerors , the city was again taken and reduced by ...
... lives was immense . Tho the city of Babylon stood many years after this ; yet it was in subjection to the Medes and Persians . But the Babylonians at length rebelling against their conquerors , the city was again taken and reduced by ...
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... lives are stained with blood and carnage . But while these commentators dwell upon the judgments inflicted upon the ... live under the light of the gospel , and to be governed by milder principles , are not still actuated by the same ...
... lives are stained with blood and carnage . But while these commentators dwell upon the judgments inflicted upon the ... live under the light of the gospel , and to be governed by milder principles , are not still actuated by the same ...
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... lives of nations in support of a fallacious principle which , in the event , has always proved their ruin . In Babylon , this favorite principle of the warrior was fully tried , and utterly failed . Here military power and art ...
... lives of nations in support of a fallacious principle which , in the event , has always proved their ruin . In Babylon , this favorite principle of the warrior was fully tried , and utterly failed . Here military power and art ...
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... lives , their fleets were destroyed , and the remainder of their land forces hastily driven back to their own country . This ad- verse fortune of the Persians was evidently owing to the frowns of Divine Providence , combined with the ...
... lives , their fleets were destroyed , and the remainder of their land forces hastily driven back to their own country . This ad- verse fortune of the Persians was evidently owing to the frowns of Divine Providence , combined with the ...
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Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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?
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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.