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low-creatures, a certain reſpect was ſtill paid to the principle of life, and the crime of murdered innocence was in ſome degree atoned by the decent regard that was paid to the mode of their deſtruction.
Gentle friends,
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him as a diſh fit for the Gods;
Not hew him as a carcaſe fit for hounds;
And let our hearts, as ſubtle maſters do,
Stir up their ſervants to an act of rage,
And after ſeem to chide them.
Shakespeare.
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