Considerations Upon War, Upon Cruelty in General, and Religious Cruelty in Particular: Also, an Attempt to Prove that Everlasting Punishments are Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes. In Several Letters and Essays. To which are Added, Essays on Divers Other Subjects, and An Oration in Praise of Deceit and Lying |
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... honour of God as deftructive to the peace of mankind , an attempt is therefore made to fet fo deteftable an opinion in a clear light , and anfwer the chief arguments commonly used to defend it . And furely this attempt is the more ...
... honour of God as deftructive to the peace of mankind , an attempt is therefore made to fet fo deteftable an opinion in a clear light , and anfwer the chief arguments commonly used to defend it . And furely this attempt is the more ...
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... honour , the fields lying wafte , their owners forced to bear arms , and the crooked scythes being forged into cruel fwords . But furely , if the people have no real intereft in the quarrels of their princes , as it is certain they very ...
... honour , the fields lying wafte , their owners forced to bear arms , and the crooked scythes being forged into cruel fwords . But furely , if the people have no real intereft in the quarrels of their princes , as it is certain they very ...
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... honour to this age and nation , and will , I doubt not , be applauded by future generations , even as long as the English language is understood , ( which , perhaps , may be for ever :) great part of this poem is alfo on the fame fub ...
... honour to this age and nation , and will , I doubt not , be applauded by future generations , even as long as the English language is understood , ( which , perhaps , may be for ever :) great part of this poem is alfo on the fame fub ...
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... honour to their father's ashes , exhibited this combat of gladiators , which extremely pleased the people . But this in- jury done to humanity was revenged by a peftilence , which raged violently during this and the following year ...
... honour to their father's ashes , exhibited this combat of gladiators , which extremely pleased the people . But this in- jury done to humanity was revenged by a peftilence , which raged violently during this and the following year ...
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... honour of the Greeks , that there never were any fuch fpec- tacles as these among them , ' till Greece was conquered by the Romans : after which , when it was propofed at Athens that the combats of gladiators fhould be there intro ...
... honour of the Greeks , that there never were any fuch fpec- tacles as these among them , ' till Greece was conquered by the Romans : after which , when it was propofed at Athens that the combats of gladiators fhould be there intro ...
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