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We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.


Practical Piety (1811)


We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's...

We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's...

We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's...

We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's...