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... interest- ing victims , though their lives may have been justly for- feited to the law . Whence this difference of sentiment ? It may , perhaps , be found in that difference of manners which makes us view with horror the Roman practice ...
... interest- ing victims , though their lives may have been justly for- feited to the law . Whence this difference of sentiment ? It may , perhaps , be found in that difference of manners which makes us view with horror the Roman practice ...
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... interest or ambition held out to tempt him from his course , refuting , by the blameless sanctity of his life , all the calumnies which were show- ered upon him , despising danger , disregarding toil , brav- ing alike the sneer of the ...
... interest or ambition held out to tempt him from his course , refuting , by the blameless sanctity of his life , all the calumnies which were show- ered upon him , despising danger , disregarding toil , brav- ing alike the sneer of the ...
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... interests of mankind — a sacred flame , long cherish- ed “ as a light shining in a dark place , " but now at last daily kindling into brighter and broader radiance , and , doubtless destined to guide for many an age , the great and free ...
... interests of mankind — a sacred flame , long cherish- ed “ as a light shining in a dark place , " but now at last daily kindling into brighter and broader radiance , and , doubtless destined to guide for many an age , the great and free ...
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... interests . Even Cotton Ma- ther , in spite of his steadfast abhorrence of Williams's heresy , seems to have been touched with the magnani- mity and kindness of the man ; and after having stigma- tized him as " the infamous Korah of New ...
... interests . Even Cotton Ma- ther , in spite of his steadfast abhorrence of Williams's heresy , seems to have been touched with the magnani- mity and kindness of the man ; and after having stigma- tized him as " the infamous Korah of New ...
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... interests of his country and the most sacred rights of man with an ability , a courage , and a sagacity , which would have done honour to Hambden or Algernon Sidney . He lived in an age of controversy and intolerance , both religious ...
... interests of his country and the most sacred rights of man with an ability , a courage , and a sagacity , which would have done honour to Hambden or Algernon Sidney . He lived in an age of controversy and intolerance , both religious ...
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