 Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? " His oration was an argument against war, in which its horrors, its failure to accomplish its objects, its wickedness, its waste, its absurdity, were all set...  Charles Sumner - Page 32by Moorfield Storey - 1900 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 556 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegccque, iisdem prcesidiis, scrpe iisdem manipulis pennwti fuerant.2 Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 554 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares colleycrque, iisdem prcesidiis, scepe iisdem manipulis pennixti f teerant.3 Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 - 1871 - 360 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegceque, iisdem prcesidiis, scepe iisdem manipulis permixti fuerant? Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1893 - 144 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegceque, iisdem prcesidiis, scepe iisdem manipulis permixti fuerant? Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1896 - 162 pages
...earlier years. In 1869, when printing his speeches in a permanent and revised form, he inquired only "Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? " — thus putting interrogatively only what he had once declared affirmatively. Such changes as... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Legislators - 1900 - 486 pages
...With this his career as a lawyer practically closed. He had reached the threshold of his public life. CHAPTER IV ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE SUMNER'S opportunity...to be clear, he spoke to an audience as he thought to himself, without reserve or regard for the feelings of others. He stated the truth as he saw it,... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Legislators - 1900 - 482 pages
...With this his career as a lawyer practically closed. He had reached the threshold of his public life. CHAPTER IV ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE SUMNER'S opportunity...objects, its wickedness, its waste, its absurdity, were jjl set forth. A speech in praise of peace would doubtless have passed unchallenged, but Sumner's method... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - Statesmen - 1900 - 282 pages
...they may be applied to works of justice and beneficence, which is better than war or empire. . . . Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
 | Education - 1898
...they may be applied to works of justice and beneficence, which is better than war or «mpire. . . . Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and advancing... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Orators - 1901 - 372 pages
...tribuni tribunis compares collegasque, iisdem prassidiis, saspe iisdem manipilis permixti fuerant." Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable ? The true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence, securing and... | |
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