 It would be no crime in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its course, were I able to effect such purposes. Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 5121839Full view - About this book
 | George Horne - 1786 - 370 pages
...rivers. But I with you had been fo employed, inftead of writing eflays in defence of fuicide. P. 12. " Where then is the crime " of turning a few ounces of blood " from their natural channel ?" The public prints informed us fome time ago of a man who killed his... | |
 | George Horne - 1786 - 380 pages
...rivers. But I wilh you had been fo employed, inftead of writing eflays in defence of fuicide. P. 12. " Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood " from their natural channel ?" The public prints informed us fome time ago of a man who killed his... | |
 | 1788 - 642 pages
...exiftencc to a io; tuitous concourfc of atoms ? and doth not he fpealt of fuicide in the ludicrous way of turning a few ounces of blood out of their natural channel? What rcficflions the Earl Marefchal may make on his character arc not to be regarded, as they come... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 pages
...which he ufes here, — " it would be no crime " in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its courfe, if I could — where then " is the crime of turning...a few ounces of blood out of their natural channel ?'* — yet what a contempt does he fhow for the underftanding of his reader by fuch wretched trifling... | |
 | John Mansfield (of Brasenose coll.) - 1790 - 184 pages
...exiftence to a for~ .tuitious concourfe of atoms ? And doth not he fpeak of fuicide in the ludicrous way of turning a few ounces of blood out of their natural channel ? What reflections the Earl of Marefchal may make on his character are not to be regarded, as they... | |
 | David Hume - 1799 - 142 pages
...be no crime in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its courfe, were I able to effect fuch purpofes. Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel? — Do you imagine that I repine at Providence or curfe my creation , becau... | |
 | 1803 - 466 pages
...rivers. But I wifli you had been fo employed, inftead of writing Eflays in defence of fuicide. P. 1 2. " Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?" The public prints informed us fome time ago of a man who killed his •wife... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 578 pages
...Universe, than oysters. With a view, probably, to strengthen this allegation, Mr. Hume asks, " Where is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood out of their channel ."' By this question he undoubtedly intends, that his readers shall suppose Suicide to be nothing... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 566 pages
...rivers. But I wish you had been so employed, instead of writing essays in defence of suicide. Page 12. " Where then is the crime of turning a " few ounces of blood from their natural channel ?" The public prints informed us some time ago of a man who killed his wife... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...rivers. But I wish you had been so employed, instead of writing essays in defence of suicide. Page 12. " Where then is the crime of turning a " few ounces of blood from their natural channel ?" The public prints informed us some time ago of a man who killed his wife... | |
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