| 1834 - 512 pages
...serpents' meat; when men shall hurt and destroy no longer ; when the people shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. How this is to be brought about has, of course, been... | |
| Ignotus Coaxus (pseud.) - Great Britain - 1835 - 224 pages
...other at heart, that there shall no longer be enemies to resist, nor offences to punish—in the day when, " nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." The time of peace and virtue has always been regarded as that of prosperity and happiness— when men "... | |
| Edward Ash - Society of Friends - 1837 - 108 pages
...faithful servants of the Prince of peace, be instrumental in hastening the coming of that blessed period, when " nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." The testimony which was from the first borne by our society against oaths and swearing, was founded on... | |
| Sarah Grubb - 1837 - 404 pages
...of by the prophet, ' when swords shall be beaten into plough-shares, and spears into pruning-hooks, when nation shall not lift up sword against nation ; neither shall they learn war any more.' The great design of our universal parent, in sending his beloved Son a light into the world, is for his... | |
| 1840 - 420 pages
...strife shall cease, and none shall hurt or destroy, when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks, when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anv more. Then shall " every man sit under his vine and under... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Butler - Military art and science - 1839 - 60 pages
...and hastening on the approach of that period, when " swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks ; when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." But without extending our reflexions beyond the exigencies... | |
| William Jay - Pacifism - 1842 - 128 pages
...we shall behold the dawn of that glorious day, the theme of prophets and the aspiration of saints, when "nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." The present age is propitious to the enterprise. It is an age of energy and of freedom. All the powers... | |
| India - 1844 - 606 pages
...inclination, strenuously to cultivate the arts of Peace — And now here was the happy time near at hand, when " they shall beat their swords into plough-shares...spears into pruning hooks" — when " nation shall lift up its sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" — Alas ! how were we disappointed... | |
| Charles Wellbeloved - 1845 - 134 pages
...peoples ; and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks : when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." The publication of these "Last Thoughts," was not the last effort of his untiring zeal in the great and... | |
| 1845 - 952 pages
...God's promise, men "shall beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning-hooks," when " nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." The battles noticed in our list are all of them, on some account or other, especially memorable. Those... | |
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