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Harshness

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Harshness
Pharaoh
imposed cruel burdens of labor on the Hebrews. [O.T.: Exodus 5]
draconian laws
included severe punishments prescribed by Draco, their codifier. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 791]


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And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of today towards yesterday, of hereafter towards today.
I could not but note the unnecessary harshness and brutality with which her guards treated her; so different from the almost maternal kindliness which Sola manifested toward me, and the respectful attitude of the few green Martians who took the trouble to notice me at all.
He was full of timid care for his wife, not only because he deprecated any harshness of judgment from her, but because he felt a deep distress at the sight of her suffering.
 
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