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Page 16
... inhabitants of the earth to be fruitless - that they were resolved on ruin , the Almighty decreed an universal deluge that should utterly de- stroy them , together with the birds of the air and the beasts of the field . From this ...
... inhabitants of the earth to be fruitless - that they were resolved on ruin , the Almighty decreed an universal deluge that should utterly de- stroy them , together with the birds of the air and the beasts of the field . From this ...
Page 99
... inhabitants with consternation and despair , and the Ro- mans with horror and indignation . A Jewess , eminent for birth and opulence , rendered frantic with her sufferings , was reduced to the dreadful extremity of killing and feeding ...
... inhabitants with consternation and despair , and the Ro- mans with horror and indignation . A Jewess , eminent for birth and opulence , rendered frantic with her sufferings , was reduced to the dreadful extremity of killing and feeding ...
Page 208
... inhabitants of this island . Both Scotland and England had experienced the direful effects of a war , car- ried on with little regard to humanity . Almost the whole of the former , and a considerable part of the latter kingdom , had ...
... inhabitants of this island . Both Scotland and England had experienced the direful effects of a war , car- ried on with little regard to humanity . Almost the whole of the former , and a considerable part of the latter kingdom , had ...
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