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... attend the first rage of conquest . It will therefore be very reasonable to allow on their account as much as , added to the losses of the conqueror , may amount to a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest ...
... attend the first rage of conquest . It will therefore be very reasonable to allow on their account as much as , added to the losses of the conqueror , may amount to a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the oldest ...
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... attend all wars , and in a quarrel in which none of the sufferers could have the least rational concern . The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in their ...
... attend all wars , and in a quarrel in which none of the sufferers could have the least rational concern . The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in their ...
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... attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , consumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings ...
... attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , consumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings ...
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... attend the wasting of kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs ... attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men ...
... attend the wasting of kingdoms and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs ... attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men ...
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... attended by all those horrid dis- orders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are scarcely felt as ...
... attended by all those horrid dis- orders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are scarcely felt as ...
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