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Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20)

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874· 2 chapters· 63,191 words

_International War criminal, and as little worthy of honor as Civil War._--Erasmus dealt a blow at the distinction, still preserved among Christians, between _civil_ war and _foreign_ war. "_Plato civile bellum esse putat, quod Græci gerunt adversus Græcos. At Christianus Chri...

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2. Book XV. ch. 5, § 12.

In France we trace this law through a succession of master minds,--first of whom in time, as in authority, is Descartes, the chief of French philosophy. His life was crowded wit...

1. Part I. Canto II. 499-502.

_International War criminal, and as little worthy of honor as Civil War._--Erasmus dealt a blow at the distinction, still preserved among Christians, between _civil_ war and _fo...