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The truth is, the Severities against it are so great, that it is not to be done without Loss of all things and Hazard of
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The truth is, the Severities against it are so great, that it is not to be done without Loss of all things and Hazard of
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Government, I shou'd be sorry to see any Severities thought necessary.
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_English_ Gentleman, from that so excellent Method of Education used amongst the Warlike Nation the _Gothes_: Who (as _Olaus Magnus_ informes us) amongst the greatest Severities, as _Beatings_ and _Wounds_, _Change of Heat into sudden Cold_, _lying_ (not on _Downe_ but) upon _Boards_,
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Next I should place in evidence the so-called German "War Book" ( "Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege"), where under the convenient title of "Indispensable Severities" may be found the text for many of the worst atrocities committed in Belgium and
The World Decision Robert Herrick 1903
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But herewith is Geburah, Severity, connected in the five Severities
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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Grievance our Youth lie under, in the accustomed Severities of the
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And though in them were, both good and evil, still this evil did not develop itself in act, since the Severities remained, though mitigated; some portion of them being necessary to prevent the fragments of the integuments from ascending.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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Macroprosopos his lights have the nature of Severities, with respect to the elder Universal; though they are Commiseration, with respect to the lights of Malakoth and the three lower worlds.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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Severities were hateful to the king; he had misjudged his own character, when, at the outset of his reign, he had desired the appellation of Louis le Severe.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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