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ſacre the unoffending animals, while they fill the air with the cries of innocence, and deluge thy maternal boſom with the blood of the moſt amiable of thy creatures!
And yet thoſe channels of ſympathy for inferior animals, a long, a very long diſuſe has not been able, altogether, to choak up. Even now, notwithſtanding the narrow, joyleſs, and hard-hearted tendency of the prevailing ſuperſtitions; even now, we diſcover, in every corner of the globe, ſome good-natured prejudice in
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