The Quarterly Review, Volume 73John Murray, 1843 - English literature |
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... human heca- tombs on their teocallis , or temples . It was the unspeakable barbarity of this part of their religion which so strongly and darkly contrasted with the justice and , in some respects , mild humanity of their civil ...
... human heca- tombs on their teocallis , or temples . It was the unspeakable barbarity of this part of their religion which so strongly and darkly contrasted with the justice and , in some respects , mild humanity of their civil ...
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... human sacrifices formed a regular part of some of the eastern religions ; in the remoter East , as well as in Syria and in Carthage . The instances recorded in later times , in the more polished nations of antiquity , were in general ...
... human sacrifices formed a regular part of some of the eastern religions ; in the remoter East , as well as in Syria and in Carthage . The instances recorded in later times , in the more polished nations of antiquity , were in general ...
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... human nature , that such things should be in a land where Providence was so lavish of all its bounties ; where man was so far advanced beyond the savage — had learned to improve the blessings of God by the arts of civilization , and in ...
... human nature , that such things should be in a land where Providence was so lavish of all its bounties ; where man was so far advanced beyond the savage — had learned to improve the blessings of God by the arts of civilization , and in ...
Contents
Vaudois 1842 | 3 |
A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the late William | 27 |
Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of Ame | 113 |
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