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" Yet, if it be true that the sentiment of compassion is imperceptibly weakened by the sight and practice of domestic cruelty, we may observe that the horrid objects which are disguised by the arts of European refinement are exhibited in their naked and... "
“The” History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 339
by Edward Gibbon - 1820
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Annual Register, Volume 24

Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 614 pages
...fight and practice of domettic cruelty, we may obferve that the horrid objecls which are difguifed by the arts of European refinement, are exhibited in their naked and molt difgufting fimplicity, in the tent of a Tartarian fhepherd. The ox, or the fhecp, are flaughtered...
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW.

SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pages
...fight and praetice of domellic cruelty, we may obferve, that the horrid objects which are difguifed by the arts of European refinement, are exhibited in their naked and molt difguliing fimplicity, in the tent of a Tartarean (hepherd. The ox, or the iheep, are flaughccred...
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The History of Herodotus, Volume 2

Herodotus - Greece - 1791 - 502 pages
...fight and practice of domeilic cruelty, we may obferve that the horrid objefts which arc difguifed by the arts of European refinement are exhibited in their naked and moft difgufting fimplicity in the tent of a Tartarian fhepherd. The ox or the fheep are flaughtered...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 24

History - 1800 - 624 pages
...fight and praftice of domeftic cruelty, we may obferve that the horrid objefts which are difguifed by the arts of European refinement, are exhibited in their naked and moil difguiting fimplicity, in the tent of a Tartarian fliepherd. The ox, or the Iheep, are flaughtefed...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 24

History - 1800 - 620 pages
...fight and praftke of dornt ftic cruelty, we may obferve that the horrid objefh which art difguiled by the arts of European refinement, are exhibited in their naked and mod di'fgufting fimplicity, in the tent of a Tartarian ihepherd. The óífj or the fheep, are flaughtered...
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Herodotus, Volume 2

Herodotus - Greece - 1812 - 468 pages
...considered in any other light than that of an innocent, perhaps a salutary prejudice of humanity. Yet if it be true, that the sentiment of compassion is imperceptibly...slaughtered by the same hand from which they were accustomed to receive their daily food ; and the bleeding limbs are served, with very little preparation,...
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On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals: On the Primeval State of Man ...

Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pages
...Gibbon, while complaining of the cruelties of the Tartarians, adverts to European refinements, where the ox, or the sheep, are slaughtered by the same hand from which they are accustomed to receive their dai. ly food ; and the bleeding limbs are served, with very little...
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Herodotus, tr., with notes, by W. Beloe, Volume 2

Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...waggons *. How can a people so circumstanced afford the means of victory, or even of attack ? Yet if it be true, that the sentiment of compassion is imperceptibly...slaughtered by the same hand from which they were accustomed to receive their daily food ; and the bleeding limbs are served, with very little preparation,...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...Gibbon, in speaking of a blood-thirsty race of men, whose veryname is proverbial, says, " Yet if it be true that the sentiment of compassion is imperceptibly...naked and most disgusting simplicity in the tent of a Tartarean shepherd. The ox, or the sheep, are slaughtered by the same hand from which they are accustomed...
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Herodotus, tr. by W. Beloe, Volume 2

Herodotus - 1830 - 352 pages
...second, the Tiarantus, is smaller, having an inclination to the west : betwixt these the Ararus, ment of compassion is imperceptibly weakened by the sight...slaughtered by the same hand from which they were accustomed to receive their daily food ; and the bleeding limbs are served with very little preparation...
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