Voice of Humanity: For the Communication and Discussion of All Subjects Relative to the Conduct of Man Towards the Inferior Animal Creation, Volume 1J. Nisbet, 1830 |
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... friends of the cause the indis pensable necessity of contributing to the fund for its permanent establishment . This claim is not peculiar to the present work or to the cause itself ; but it is well known that most periodical works ...
... friends of the cause the indis pensable necessity of contributing to the fund for its permanent establishment . This claim is not peculiar to the present work or to the cause itself ; but it is well known that most periodical works ...
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... friend , who has since been removed by death ; but who , if the spirits of the blessed are permitted to behold from their exalted station what is passing below , must bend with satisfaction over every effort that is now making to bring ...
... friend , who has since been removed by death ; but who , if the spirits of the blessed are permitted to behold from their exalted station what is passing below , must bend with satisfaction over every effort that is now making to bring ...
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... friend , who resides in the street in which the animal is kept . The street was closed at all its avenues with waggons , in which were numbers of men , women , and children . The doors and windows of the houses were either closed or ...
... friend , who resides in the street in which the animal is kept . The street was closed at all its avenues with waggons , in which were numbers of men , women , and children . The doors and windows of the houses were either closed or ...
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... friend on the other side of the river , we were aroused by the shouts of numbers rushing by and crying , " It's in the river ! It's in the river ! " I put on my hat and went out . The bull was swimming down the river , its head only ...
... friend on the other side of the river , we were aroused by the shouts of numbers rushing by and crying , " It's in the river ! It's in the river ! " I put on my hat and went out . The bull was swimming down the river , its head only ...
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... friends to take the whole carcase . All the blood - vessels of the throat were instantaneously divided by one incision , by which means the blood was effectually drained off . The flesh was of a healthy pink tinge , but dressed as white ...
... friends to take the whole carcase . All the blood - vessels of the throat were instantaneously divided by one incision , by which means the blood was effectually drained off . The flesh was of a healthy pink tinge , but dressed as white ...
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Page 139 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Page 133 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 105 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you...
Page 143 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 55 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 149 - A man of kindness to his beast is kind; But brutal actions show a brutal mind. Remember, he who made thee, made the brute; Who gave thee speech and reason, formed him mute; He can't complain; but God's omniscient eye Beholds thy cruelty; he hears his cry. He was designed thy servant and thy drudge; But KNOW that HIS Creator is THY Judge.
Page 52 - And then will the glad sound be caught up and echoed by every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, saying, Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page 45 - And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for...
Page 45 - Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 86 - Justice of the Peace, before whom any Person or Persons shall be convicted of any Offence against this Act, shall and may cause the Conviction to be drawn up in the following Form of Words...