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1762 | A Treastise on the Religious Education of Daughters

To turn [a living Creature's] Torments into Pastime, and make Sport with their Anguish, is a Rigour, more than tyrannical, worse than brutal; is the very Reverse of that benign Providence, whose tender Mercies are over ALL his Works. (James Hervey, A Treatise on the Religious Education of Daughters [1762])

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1762 | Rev. James Hervey, A Treatise on the Religious Education of Daughters (Posthumously Published, Boston, 1762; Online at Animal Rights History, 2003).

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