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Muddy Water
Bessie Smith

 

[Gary A.]

 

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and thus it is, that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate, by the examle of the punishment that attends it from every body,

 

[Gary A.]

 

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[Gary A.]

 

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and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal, who having renounced reason, the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind, hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one,

 

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declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tyger, one of those wild savage beasts, with whom men can have no society nor security:

 

[Gary A.]

 

[limr10 8]

and upon this is grounded that great law of nature, Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

 

[Gary A.]

 

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[Gary A.]

 

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Girlfriend On Demand
Joss Stone

 

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And Cain was so fully convinced, that every one had a right to destroy such a criminal, that after the murder of his brother, he cries out, Every one that findeth me, shall slay me; so plain was it writ in the hearts of all mankind.