 nature and barbarous to all the world. I answer, it is cruelty to kill a snake or a toad in cold blood, but the poison of their nature makes it a charity to our neighbours to destroy those creatures, not for any personal injury received, but for prevention...  The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt - Pagina 15door Daniel Defoe - 1843Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 560 pagina’s
...fire and faggot; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world.' I answer, 'tis cruelty to kill a snake or a toad, in cold blood,...received, but for prevention; not for the evil they have done, but the evil they may do. Serpents, toads, vipers, &c., are noxious to the body, and poison... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 560 pagina’s
...fire and faggot; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world.' I answer, 'tis cruelty to kill a snake or a toad, in cold blood,...received, but for prevention; not for the evil they have done, but the evil they may do. Serpents, toads, vipers, &c., are noxious to the body, and poison... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 548 pagina’s
...fire and faggot; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world.' I answer, 'tis cruelty to kill a snake or a toad, in cold blood,...received, but for prevention; not for the evil they have done, but the evil they may do. Serpents, toads, vipers, &c., are noxious to the body, and poison... | |
 | 1830 - 524 pagina’s
...fire and faggot ; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world.' I answer, 'tis cruelty to kill a snake or a toad, in cold blood,...neighbours to destroy those creatures, not for any persotial injury received, but for prevention : ' not for the evil they have done, but the evil they... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1831 - 438 pagina’s
...fire and faggot; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world.' I answer, 'tis cruelty to kill a snake or a toad in cold blood, but...received, but for prevention ; not for the evil they have done, but the evil they may do. Serpents, toads, vipers, &c. are noxious to the body, and poison... | |
 | 1846 - 516 pagina’s
...De Heret. Comburendo: this will be cruelty in its nature and barbarous to the world.'—I answer, 't is cruelty to kill a snake or a toad in cold blood,...nature makes it a charity to our neighbours to destroy these creatures, not for any personal injury received, but for prevention ; not for the evil they have... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 pagina’s
...faggot; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world;' I answer, it is cruel to kill a snake or a toad in cold blood, but the poison...to our neighbours to destroy those creatures, not from any personal injury received, but for prevention; not for the evil they have done, but for the... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1852 - 360 pagina’s
...fagot ; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world.' I answer, it is cruel to kill a snake or a toad in cold blood ; but the poison of their nature makes it a charity to our neighbors to destroy those creatures, not from any personal injury received, but for prevention; not... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1852 - 376 pagina’s
...and fagot; this will be cruelty in its nature, and barbarous to all the world.' I answer, it is cruel to kill a snake or a toad in cold blood; but the poison of their nature makes it a charity to our neighbors to destroy those creatures, not from any personal injury received, but for provention;not... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pagina’s
...seriously. To those who might say that persecuting the Dissenters was cruel, says De Foe, " I answer, 'tis cruelty to kill a snake or a toad in cold blood, but...any personal injury received, but for prevention! . . . Serpents, toads, and vipers, &c., are noxious to the body, and poison the sensitive life : these... | |
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