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NONCON.
Opinion of it's mischievousness, tho' the ostensible not
the real cause of the Lord measure it meets with.
1st proof — that who upon all other occasions
are insensible to that show no signs of sensibility. to that consideration
shall be amongst the most furious in their zeal
2d That their zeal rises in proportion as against the several species of it
those species are physically more odious: being
stronger against that which is committed with
Brutes, than against that which is committed with
the Human species: & with now the mischief to
is in the reverse order
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NONCONF.
Canto. v 215
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NONCON SUICIDE
If it were not for this propensity they may the strength of antipathy aversion to a practise in
, the measure of its iniquity in others: we
should never have seen men maintain the superiority of his
guilt who quits life voluntarily himself, over he who
by force precipitates out of it another. — One thing we
learn with certainty from this , that if the case were to happen that
somebody in a every company must die, he who holds it would rather
the lot should fall upon any other by he who he will than upon himself: a desire natural
& pardonable , but not
NONCON.
The same persons who are furious at the
thoughts of such indulgences, in question would will read an
account like this with perfect composure;
v. Hanway in Burn
on the Poor Laws 226. & would proceed with all expedition
to make proscribe them by<add>the person</add>
sanguinary Laws, while a project
tho´never so well devised for the case of the
latter evil would lie upon the Table.of the evil as it
depends upon the latter cause.
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