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Page 231
... pain and sorrow . " It mostly happens , that Indians and Negroes are the people who catch the Sloth , and bring it to the white man : hence it may be conjectured , that the erroneous accounts we have hitherto had of the Sloth , have not ...
... pain and sorrow . " It mostly happens , that Indians and Negroes are the people who catch the Sloth , and bring it to the white man : hence it may be conjectured , that the erroneous accounts we have hitherto had of the Sloth , have not ...
Page 292
... pain , and likewise I had drunk none for three days before . But afterward , at the third charge , perceiving these measures of water to be inflicted upon me as tortures , oh , strangling tor- tures ! I closed my lips again - standing ...
... pain , and likewise I had drunk none for three days before . But afterward , at the third charge , perceiving these measures of water to be inflicted upon me as tortures , oh , strangling tor- tures ! I closed my lips again - standing ...
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... pain it will be found that the sympathy is produced and carried on by subtle combinations with pleasure . We have no knowledge , that is , no general principles drawn from the contemplation of par- ticular facts , but what has been ...
... pain it will be found that the sympathy is produced and carried on by subtle combinations with pleasure . We have no knowledge , that is , no general principles drawn from the contemplation of par- ticular facts , but what has been ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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