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oh! why ſhouldſt thou dip thy hand in the blood of thy fellow creatures without cauſe? Have I not amply, not only for the wants, but even for the pleaſures of the human race, provided? Prodigal of bleſſings, pour I not forth for man an abundant banquet; a banquet, in which the ſalubrious and ſavoury, the nouriſhing and palatable, are blended in proportions infinitely various? And, while laviſh of my gifts, thy lap I load with the produce of the ſeaſons as they paſs; while to thy
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