 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 510 páginas
...decorated their temples. Fear was the only principle that infpired their votaries. Fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means which they employed to appeafe their wrath, and they never appr.oached their altars without fprinkling... | |
 | William Robertson - 1791 - 398 páginas
...them. In order to conciliate the favour, or to appeafe the wrath, of the former, fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed. Their altars were always bathed in blood, the moft coftly victims were offered, whole hecatombs were... | |
 | 1792 - 822 páginas
...them. In order to conciliate the favour, or to appeafe the wrath, of the former, falb, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed. Their altars were always bathed in blood, the molt coftly victims were offered, whole hecatombs were... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 518 páginas
...delighted jn vengeance. Fear was the only principle that inspired their votaries. Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means which they employed to appease the wrath • Carli. wrath of their Gods, and they never approached... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1794 - 748 páginas
...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 - 514 páginas
...ferpents, of tigers, and of other deftructive animals, decorated their temples. Fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means, which they employed to appeafe the wrath of the gods. But of all offerings, human facrifices were deemed... | |
 | William Robertson - 1803 - 456 páginas
...decorated their temples. Fear was the only principle that infpired their votaries. Fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating...extreme degree, were the means employed to appeafe the wrath of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their altars without fprinkling them with blood... | |
 | William Robertson - 1804 - 422 páginas
...them. In order to conciliate the favour, or to appeafe the wrath, of the former, fafts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed. Their altars were always bathed in blood, the moft coftly victims were offered, whole hecatombs were... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1805 - 558 páginas
...serpents; of tigers, and of other destructive animals, decorated their temples. Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means which they employed to appease the wrath of the gods. But of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 388 páginas
...decorated their temples. Fear was the only principle that inspired their votaries. Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed to appease the wrath of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling... | |
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Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed... 
