The book Captain Sword And Captain Pen was written by author Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Here you can read free online of Captain Sword And Captain Pen book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Captain Sword And Captain Pen a good or bad book?
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Ifilled him the hat of a dead soldier with water, which he nearly drankoff at once, and left him to that end of his wretchedness which couldnot be far distant. '" "I hope (concludes Mr Southey), I have always felt and expressed anhonest and Christian abhorrence of wars, and of the systems that producethem; but my ideas of their immediate horrors fell infinitely short ofthis authentic picture. " Mr Southey, in his subsequent lives of conquerors, and his otherwritings, will hardly be thought to h...ave acted up to this "abhorrence ofwars, and of the systems that produce them. " Nor is he to be blamed forqualifying his view of the subject, equally blameless (surely) as theyare to be held who have retained their old views, especially by him whohelped to impress them. His friend Mr Wordsworth, in the vivacity of hisadmonitions to hasty complaints of evil, has gone so far as to say that"Carnage is God's daughter, " and thereby subjected himself to thescoffs of a late noble wit. He is addressing the Deity himself:-- "But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man, array'd for mutual slaughter: Yea, Carnage is thy daughter.
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