And he might have added, that some savage peoples continued cannibalism when the religious idea of its beginning had been almost swept away entirely by the brutalism of its inhuman nature and tendencies.
Not to mention what numbers have been given up to the inhuman usage of cruel task-masters, who, by their unrelenting scourges have ploughed their backs, and made long furrows, and at length brought them even unto death.
Footnote A: Dean Tucker, in his Reflections on the Disputes between Great Britain and Ireland, published in 1785, had passed a severe censure on the British planters for the inhuman treatment of their slaves.
That, satisfied as your petitioners are that this inhuman system meets with the general execration of mankind, they flatter themselves the day is not far distant when it will be universally abolished.
And of course he is burrowing in the dark to increase his Republican party and inspire it with his fanatical enthusiasm for thoseinhuman wretches in France.
Louisiana and the Floridas should be seized as soon as war was declared, and he lent a kindly ear to Miranda, who was for overthrowing the inhuman rule of Spain in South America.
Laura, mingling her natural reserve with a desire to satisfy her kind hostess, answered, that she had been torn from her friends by an inhuman enemy, and that her perilous voyage was the least effect of his barbarity.
Shall I regard the feelings of one who takes an inhuman pleasure in my sufferings?
This light is diffused all over the world in these inhuman parallelogrammic cities of the sick, and sometimes it comes to a focus.
After he had finished his inhuman supper on another of our seamen, he lay down on his back and fell asleep.
I made every plea I could to the king not to expose me, a foreigner, to this inhuman law.
The soldiers, who loved their lieutenant, asked permission to bury him; but the inhuman French officer refused, although they offered to do it in a very few minutes where they had raised clay to stay the progress of the flames.
When we reflect over this act of savage atrocity, we are free to confess that we look upon it as one of the most inhuman and revolting on record.
And in the faces of the inhuman creatures that threatened them, there was no hope for their lives.
He was making an almost inhuman effort, mental and physical, to overcome the perfect poise that proclaimed her more than human.
But Prescott does not; he seems to have a kind of sympathy with these inhumanand perfidious adventurers, as if they were his heroes.
The head itself rose up to a rounded point that added to the inhuman brutality of the face.
Conan was silent, while in his mind floated an image--the image of a bearded face of calm inhuman beauty.
The eyes were like dark murky glass under which shoneinhuman somber fires.
Before the inhuman feet behind him could resume their slithering advance at the fading of the distant illumination, Conan was running down the corridor.
The countenance was that of a bearded man, inscrutable, with a calm inhuman beauty.
Sir Phelim O'Neale, among the rest, was some time after brought to the gibbet, and suffered an ignominious death, which he had so well merited by his inhuman cruelties.
To excite a sentiment of pity was the only effect which this inhuman insult was able to produce upon him.
The members exerted their spirit chiefly in bitter invectives against the memory of Cromwell, and in execrations against the inhuman murder of their late sovereign.
A universal massacre commenced of the English, now defenceless, and passively resigned to their inhuman foes.
Every sound-minded man would regard the subjugation of himself and family to slavery as a dreadful calamity, and would consider the man who should hold them in that condition as an unfeeling, inhuman tyrant.
From that place I wrote incident after incident concerning the most inhuman barbarity that had been enacted by citizen guerrillas and butternut soldiers.
The feudal system had well-nigh lost all its inhuman parts, and the worse inhumanity of the commercial system had not yet shown itself.
The habits of these unhappy persons being at first wholly predatory, the laws proclaimed a sort of crusade against them, and great and inhuman riddance was made by the executioner.
Best thing you can do is to help us track down the rascals who played such an inhuman trick on your friends.
It was believed that in their religious rites they resorted to inhuman practices.
We have had this doctrine of an inhuman cast-iron pseudo-political economy too long enthroned amongst us.
She had begun the struggle for life early as a worker in a large laundry, and at thirteen years of age was led away by an inhuman brute.
But to monopolize all power and trust to such a particular judgment and way (as it is now given out) is truly, I think, inhuman and unchristian.
It forbade the use of torture or immoderate and inhuman punishments.
