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Page 218
... shot electrifies you ! It is like a whip on a racer's legs . The balls whistle past you , turn up the earth around you , kill one , wound another , and you hardly notice them . You grow intoxicated . The smell of gunpowder mounts to ...
... shot electrifies you ! It is like a whip on a racer's legs . The balls whistle past you , turn up the earth around you , kill one , wound another , and you hardly notice them . You grow intoxicated . The smell of gunpowder mounts to ...
Page 221
... shot in a way which even by the laws of war is mur- der ; prisoners are known to have been killed in cold blood ; spies have fre- quented our camps ; the parole has been broken ; flags of truce have been fired upon ; and all sorts of ...
... shot in a way which even by the laws of war is mur- der ; prisoners are known to have been killed in cold blood ; spies have fre- quented our camps ; the parole has been broken ; flags of truce have been fired upon ; and all sorts of ...
Page 257
... shot of thirty - two pounds weight , with ten pounds of powder , from a fifty - pounder Dahlgren rifled gun . It has never yet been equaled . " SLAVERY ORIGINATING FROM WAR . - When unmitigated barbarity charac- terized war , prisoners ...
... shot of thirty - two pounds weight , with ten pounds of powder , from a fifty - pounder Dahlgren rifled gun . It has never yet been equaled . " SLAVERY ORIGINATING FROM WAR . - When unmitigated barbarity charac- terized war , prisoners ...
Page 269
... shots from her immense gun sent him back to his hiding place discomfited and crippled , another most important fact was established , viz that broadside ships cannot stand in the presence of tur- retted Monitors . All history may be ...
... shots from her immense gun sent him back to his hiding place discomfited and crippled , another most important fact was established , viz that broadside ships cannot stand in the presence of tur- retted Monitors . All history may be ...
Page 272
... shot . By the time he gets it fairly in operation , Mr. Erricson will have completed his , which , report says , sends a ball of 1000 pounds .weight . And further , it is not at all un- likely that , by the time that is done , some ...
... shot . By the time he gets it fairly in operation , Mr. Erricson will have completed his , which , report says , sends a ball of 1000 pounds .weight . And further , it is not at all un- likely that , by the time that is done , some ...
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Page 212 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 212 - They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
Page 36 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 215 - Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 304 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 292 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.