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light of a fond dam, and the darling of nature is now ſtretched in

gore upon the ground. Approach, I ſay, ye men of ſcientific ſubtilty, and tell me, tell me, does this ghaſtly ſpectacle whet your appetite? Delights your eyes the ſight of blood? Is the ſteam of gore grateful to your noſtrils, or pleaſing to the touch, the icy ribs of death? But why turn ye with abhorrence? Do you then yield to the combined evidence of your ſenſes, to the teſtimony of conſcience and common ſenſe; or

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