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. ... |
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... wife than by advice , inftruction , perfuafion , or the like ? which are indeed the only justifiable means of establishing or propagating any reli- gion ; and true chriftianity abfolutely disclaims all violent and cruel methods . < 6 ...
... wife than by advice , inftruction , perfuafion , or the like ? which are indeed the only justifiable means of establishing or propagating any reli- gion ; and true chriftianity abfolutely disclaims all violent and cruel methods . < 6 ...
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... wives and concu- bines who had lain in his bofom . IT is highly probable , that if obfervations had been made on these and fuch - like mif- creants in their infancies , and tranfmitted to us , we should have difcovered the feeds of that ...
... wives and concu- bines who had lain in his bofom . IT is highly probable , that if obfervations had been made on these and fuch - like mif- creants in their infancies , and tranfmitted to us , we should have difcovered the feeds of that ...
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... wife tormented merely for sport . BUT men of this favage temper , not fa- tisfied with these cruelties exercised on the brute creation , take great pleasure in seeing their own species wounded , mangled , and murdered too , for their ...
... wife tormented merely for sport . BUT men of this favage temper , not fa- tisfied with these cruelties exercised on the brute creation , take great pleasure in seeing their own species wounded , mangled , and murdered too , for their ...
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... wife's magazine by auction fold ! The belt , the crested plume , the fev'ral fuits Of armour , and the Spanish leather boots ! Yet these are they , that cannot bear the beat Of figur'd filks , and under farfenet fweat . Behold the ...
... wife's magazine by auction fold ! The belt , the crested plume , the fev'ral fuits Of armour , and the Spanish leather boots ! Yet these are they , that cannot bear the beat Of figur'd filks , and under farfenet fweat . Behold the ...
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... of them were deftroyed ; " others , who escaped , died of famine in " the woods , after they had killed their " wives and children , and eat them for “ hunger . " hunger . In this one province they mur- " 34 Of CRUELTY ,
... of them were deftroyed ; " others , who escaped , died of famine in " the woods , after they had killed their " wives and children , and eat them for “ hunger . " hunger . In this one province they mur- " 34 Of CRUELTY ,
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