I was pleased with the exploit, but after a few minutes was seized with horror, as having in a sportive way killed an innocent creature while she was careful for her young. I beheld her lying dead and thought those young ones for which she was so careful... The Sparrowgrass Papers: Or, Living in the Country - Стр. 141авторы: Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1856 - Страниц: 328Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| John Woolman - 1775 - Страниц: 348
...perim for want of their dam to nourifh them ; and, after fome painful confederations on the fubject, I climbed up the tree, took all the young birds, and killed them ; fuppofing that better than to leave them to pine away and die miferably : and believed, in this cafe,... | |
| John Barclay - 1833 - Страниц: 200
...beheld her lying dead, and thought those young ones for which she was so careful, must now perish for want of their dam to nourish them ; and after some...climbed up the tree, took all the young birds and killed (.hem ; supposing that better than to leave them to pine away and die miserably ; and believed in this... | |
| John Woolman - 1840 - Страниц: 364
...young ones, for which she was so careful, must now perish for want of their dam to" j- . nourish them. After some painful considerations on the subject,...than to leave them to pine away and die miserably. In this case I believed that scripture proverb was fulfilled, " The tender mercies of the wicked are... | |
| John Woolman - 1840 - Страниц: 364
...those young ones, for which she was so careful, must now perish for want of their dam to nourish them. After some painful considerations on the subject,...climbed up the tree, took all the young birds, and kil truth, and I hastened toward destruction. While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled,... | |
| John Woolman - 1845 - Страниц: 326
...careful, must now perish for want of their dam to nourish them. After some painful considerations on ihe subject, I climbed up the tree, took all the young birds, and killled them; supposing that better than to leave them to pine away and die miserably. In this case... | |
| 1849 - Страниц: 610
...beheld her lying dead, and thought those young ones, for whom she was so careful, nust now perish for want of their dam to nourish them; and after some...fulfilled, ' The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.' 1 then went on my errand, but, for some hours, could think of little else but the cruelties... | |
| Wilson Armistead - 1851 - Страниц: 398
...beheld her lying dead, and thought those young ones for which she was so careful, must now perish for want of their dam to nourish them: and after some...birds, and killed them ; supposing that better than leaving them to pine away and die miserably ; but believed, in this case, that Scripture proverb was... | |
| Francis Channing Woodworth - 1854 - Страниц: 346
...thought these young ones, for whom she had been so careful, must now perish for want of their mother to nourish them ; and after some painful considerations on the subject, I climbed the tree, took all the young birds and killed them ; supposing that better than to leave them to pine... | |
| 1855 - Страниц: 682
...nourish them ; and, after some painful considerations on the subject, 1 climbed up the tree, took all tho young birds, and killed them, supposing that better...in this case, that scripture proverb was fulfilled, ' Tho tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.' I then went on my errand ; but, for somo hours, could... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - Страниц: 718
...beheld her lying dead, und thought these young ones for which she was so careful, must now perish for want of their dam to nourish them; and after some...subject I climbed up the tree, took all the young birds, nnd killed them ; supposing that better than 1o leave them to pine away and die miserably : ami believed,... | |
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