On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals: On the Primeval State of Man; Arguments from Scripture, Reason, Fact and Experience, in Favour of a Vegetable Diet; on the Effects of Food; on the Practice of Nations and Individuals; Objections Answered; &c. &cG. Nicholson., 1819 - 266 páginas |
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... humanity which is highly necessary in our journey through life . The cruelty , not to say ingratitude , of gibbeting or impaling alive , so many innocent beautiful beings , in return for the pleasure they afford us in the display of ...
... humanity which is highly necessary in our journey through life . The cruelty , not to say ingratitude , of gibbeting or impaling alive , so many innocent beautiful beings , in return for the pleasure they afford us in the display of ...
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... . Instances are not wanting , in which men have first eaten human flesh from the pressure of extreme hunger , and afterwards indulged in it from wanton . ness , and depravity . An eminent Portuguese natu- ralist 50 BUTCHERY .
... . Instances are not wanting , in which men have first eaten human flesh from the pressure of extreme hunger , and afterwards indulged in it from wanton . ness , and depravity . An eminent Portuguese natu- ralist 50 BUTCHERY .
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... human flesh that they lay in wait for the living in order to devour them . Besides others , there was a mountaineer who conceal- ed himself in a forest near the highway , where he used to cast a rope , with a noose , over the heads of ...
... human flesh that they lay in wait for the living in order to devour them . Besides others , there was a mountaineer who conceal- ed himself in a forest near the highway , where he used to cast a rope , with a noose , over the heads of ...
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... human flesh , which they not on- ly fed on but publicly sold . That people eat their deceased relations , by way of shewing them honour , seems to be as romantic as it is repugnant to nature ; yet there are many au- thors , from ...
... human flesh , which they not on- ly fed on but publicly sold . That people eat their deceased relations , by way of shewing them honour , seems to be as romantic as it is repugnant to nature ; yet there are many au- thors , from ...
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... human reason and humanity when incli- nation is unrestrained ? It is evident there is no bounds to the tyranny of man . He lords it equal- ly over his own kind and over those he denominates brutes . Nay , there are of the race of man ...
... human reason and humanity when incli- nation is unrestrained ? It is evident there is no bounds to the tyranny of man . He lords it equal- ly over his own kind and over those he denominates brutes . Nay , there are of the race of man ...
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Página 196 - We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 12 - Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends, Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully ; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds...
Página 137 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 131 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 104 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 132 - Than cruelty, most devilish of them all. Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man ; And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn.
Página 107 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Página 106 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Página 11 - Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Página 108 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.