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 the rugged abode of bloody thoughts;‫ ‬and from their den of death ruth forth, at ſight of other animals, his rapacious deſires to ſlay, to mangle, to devour?

But come, ye men of ſcientific ſubtilty, approach and examine with attention this dead body. It was late a playful fawn, which, ſkipping and bounding on the boſom of parent earth, awoke, in the ſoul of the feeling obſerver, a thouſand tender emotions. But the butcher's knife hath laid low the