 | Arthur Deerin Call - 1828 - 30 pages
...Sir Joseph Banks, were: "There never was a good war or a bad peace." Washington wrote of war in 1785: "My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth." Gladstone called war the "original sin of nations." John Fiske characterized war as an... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 572 pages
...the explicit declaration of the parties. My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world...and exercising them for the destruction of mankind. Rather than quarrel about territory, let the poor, the needy, and oppressed of the earth, and those... | |
 | George Washington - 1835 - 568 pages
...have said, that the retreat from it seemed impossible after the explicit declaration of the parties. My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 580 pages
...have said, that the retreat from it seemed impossible after the explicit declaration of the parties. My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed hi more pleasing and innocent amusements,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 576 pages
...have said, that the retreat from it seemed impossible after the explicit declaration of the parties. My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements,... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 574 pages
...have said, that the retreat from it seemed impossible after the' explicit declaration of the parties. My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...prejudicial, if not ruinous, to us. WAR. My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished fron. the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world...and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind. For the sake of humanity, it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...prejudicial, if not ruinous, to us. WAR. My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world...and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind. For the sake of humanity, it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...prejndicial, if not ruinous, to us. WAR. My firat wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and iunocent amusements than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...prejudicial, if not ruinous, to us. WAS. My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world...and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind. For the sake of humanity, it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture, and... | |
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My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind. 
