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Discountenance _all_ cruelty to them, all starvation, all corporal chastisement; these may brutalize and _break_ their spirits, but will never bend them to willing, cheerful obedience.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Discountenance _all_ cruelty to them, all starvation, all corporal chastisement; these may brutalize and _break_ their spirits, but will never bend them to willing, cheerful obedience.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Discountenance _all_ cruelty to them, all starvation, all corporal chastisement; these may brutalize and _break_ their spirits, but will never bend them to willing, cheerful obedience.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Discountenance _all_ cruelty to them, all starvation, all corporal chastisement; these may brutalize and _break_ their spirits, but will never bend them to willing, cheerful obedience.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Discountenance all cruelty to them, all starvation, all corporal chastisement; these may brutalize and
An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Angelina Emily Grimke 1842
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Merit from Discountenance, when I assist a Friendless Person, when
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But as this kind of Dance is the particular Invention of our own Country, and as every one is more or less a Proficient in it, I would not Discountenance it; but rather suppose it may be practised innocently by others, as well as myself, who am often Partner to my
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Country, and as every one is more or less a Proficient in it, I would not Discountenance it; but rather suppose it may be practised innocently by others, as well as myself, who am often Partner to my Landlady's
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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When I relieve Merit from Discountenance, when I assist a Friendless Person, when I produce conceal'd Worth, I am displeas'd with my self, for having design'd to leave the World in order to be Virtuous.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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