| Tobias Smollett - 1777 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...animals, decorated their temples. Fear was the only principle that infpired their votaries. Fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid and many of...extreme degree, were the means which they employed to appeafe their wrath, and they never appr.oached their altars without fprinkling yhcrj with blood drawn'... | |
| William Robertson - 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...acceptable to them. In order to conciliate the favour, or to appeafe the wrath, of the former, fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many...excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed. Their altars were always bathed in blood, the moft coftly victims were offered, whole hecatombs... | |
| 1792 - عدد الصفحات: 822
...acceptable to them. In order to conciliate the favour, or to appeafe the wrath, of the former, falb, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many...excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed. Their altars were always bathed in blood, the molt coftly victims were offered, whole hecatombs... | |
| Alexander Adam - 1794 - عدد الصفحات: 748
...animals, decorated their temples. Fear was the only principle that infjiire,! thdr votaries. Fads, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many...of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the mean* employed to apprr.fe the wrath of their god.% and the Mexicans never approached their altars,... | |
| Hannah Adams - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...The figures of ferpents, of tigers, and of other deftructive animals, decorated their temples. Fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many...extreme degree, were the means, which they employed to appeafe the wrath of the gods. But of all offerings, human facrifices were deemed the moft acceptable.*... | |
| Alexander Adam - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 914
...decorated^heir temples. Fear was the only principle that inl'pircd their votaries. Fails, mortirications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed to appeafe the width of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their »Itars, without... | |
| William Robertson - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...animals, decorated their temples. Fear was the only principle that infpired their votaries. Fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many...excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed to appeafe the wrath of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their altars without... | |
| William Robertson - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...acceptable to them. In order to conciliate the favour, or to appeafe the wrath, of the former, fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many...excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed. Their altars were always bathed in blood, the moft coftly victims were offered, whole hecatombs... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...vengeance. The figures of serpents, of tigers, and of other destructive animals, decorated their temples. Fear was the only principle that inspired their votaries. Fasts, mortifications, and penances rigid and excruciating, were the means employed to appease the wrath of the gods, and the Mexicans... | |
| Hannah Adams - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...vengeance. The figures of serpents; of tigers, and of other destructive animals, decorated their temples. Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and...the means which they employed to appease the wrath of the gods. But of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable.! At the dedication... | |
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