 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 510 Seiten
...facrifices were deemed the moft acceptable. This religious belief, mingling with the implacable fpirit of vengeance, and adding new force to it, every captive...facrificed •with rites no lefs folemn than cruel. The heart and head were the portion confecrated to the gods; the warrior by whofe prowefs the prifoner... | |
 | William Robertson - 1780 - 586 Seiten
...facrifices were deemed the moft acceptable, This religious belief, mingling with the implacable fpirit of vengeance, and adding new force to it, every captive...in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and facrificed with rites no lefs folemn than cruel *. The heart and head were... | |
 | William Robertson - 1800 - 464 Seiten
...facrifices were deemed the moft acceptable. This religious belief, mingling with the implacable fpirit of vengeance, and adding new force to it, every captive taken in war was brought ito the temple, was devoted as a viclim to the deity, and facrificed with rites no lefs fblemn than... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 Seiten
...blood drawn from their own bodies. But of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed most acceptable. Every captive taken in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and was sacrificed with the most cruel rites. The heart and the head were the... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1805 - 410 Seiten
...blood drawn from their own bodies. But of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed most acceptable. Every captive taken in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and was sacrificed with the most cruel rites. The heart and the head were the... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 388 Seiten
...the most acceptable. This religious belief, mingling'with the implacable spirit of vengeance, atnl adding new force to it, every captive taken in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and sacrificed with rites no less solemn than cruel*. The heart and head were... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 502 Seiten
...sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable. This religious belief, mingling with the implacable spirit of vengeance, and adding new force to it, every captive...in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and sacrificed with rites no less solemn than cruel |\zQ. The heart and head were... | |
 | William Robertson - 1812 - 534 Seiten
...belief, mingling with the implaeable spirit of vengeanee, and adding new foree, to it, every eaptive taken in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a vietim to the deity, and saerifieed with rites no less solemn than erueL The heart and head were the... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 470 Seiten
...sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable. This religious belief, mingling with the implacable spirit of vengeance, 'and adding new force to it, every captive...in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and sacrificed with rites' no less solemn than cruel d. The heart and head were... | |
 | 1815 - 404 Seiten
...sacrifices were, deemed the most acceptable. This religious belief, mingled with the implacable spirit of vengeance, and adding new force to it, every captive...in war, was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and sacrificed with rites no less solemn than cruel." Vol. ii. pp. 308, 309. "A... | |
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But, of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable. This religious belief mingling with the implacable spirit of vengeance, and adding new force to it, every captive taken in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim... 
