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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: LYOF N . TOLSTOI
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 453
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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Lev Nikolavcich Tolstio
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Languages : en
Pages : 453
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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: New York : [s.n.
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230434728
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... mand against the temptation of the sexual relations, so perilous to peace. Look not on the body as an instrument of lust; avoid in advance this temptation. Let each man have one wife, and each woman one husband, and one is never to forsake the other, under any pretext.1 The second temptation is that of the oath, which draws men into sin; know beforehand that this if wrong, and give no such promises.2 The third temptation is that of vengeance, which we call human justice; this we are not to resort to under any pretext; we are to endure offenses, and never to return evil for evil.3 The fourth temptation is that arising from difference in nationalities, from hostility between peoples and states; know that all men are brothers, and children of the same Father, and disturb not the peace with any one in the name of national ends.4 If men abstain from practising any one of these commands, peace will be violated. Let men practise all these commands, and peace will be established upon earth. These commands exclude all evil from the lives of men. The practice of these five commands would realize the ideal of human life existing in every human heart. All men would be brothers, each would be at peace with others, enjoying all the blessings of earth to the limit of years accorded by the Creator. Men would beat their swords into plowshares, and theii spears into pruning-hooks, and then would come thf kingdom of God, -- that reign of peace foretold by all the prophets, which was foretold by John the Baptist as near at hand, and which Christ proclaimed in the words of Isaiah: -- "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he sent me to heal the broken-heaKted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and...
