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occupied every walk of life; every element was ranſacked for victims; the moſt remote corners of the globe were raviſhed of their in habitants, whether by the faſtidious gluttony of man their fleſh was held grateful to the palate, whether their blood could impurple the pall of his pride, or their ſpoils could add a feather to the wings of his vanity: and while nature, while agonizing nature is tortured by his ambition, while to ſupply the demands of his perverſe appetite the bleeds at every
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