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 a God of love, how much more acceptable the prayers of the humane Guanchos, mingled with the plaintive cries of their guileleſs mediators; how much more moving, I ſay, their innocent ſupplication, than the ruffian petitions of thoſe execrable Arabs, who, imploring mercy,perpetrated murder, and embrued in the blood of agonizing innocence, their hands holding up, dared to beſeech thy compaſſion, thou common father of all that breathe the breath of life! Rh