Lectures, Delivered at Bowdoin College: And Occasional SermonsJoseph Griffin, 1822 - 411 من الصفحات |
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... Scythians to sacrifice every hundreth captive . Having poured libations on their heads , they cut their throats into a vessel , for that purpose . From these human victims , they cut off the right arms , close to the shoulder , and ...
... Scythians to sacrifice every hundreth captive . Having poured libations on their heads , they cut their throats into a vessel , for that purpose . From these human victims , they cut off the right arms , close to the shoulder , and ...
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... Scythians , praised as they have been for their innocence , put out the eyes of their slaves . Nor does it appear , that slavery at Rome assumed a mild- er aspect than that at Sparta . It was not unusual , we are informed , for masters ...
... Scythians , praised as they have been for their innocence , put out the eyes of their slaves . Nor does it appear , that slavery at Rome assumed a mild- er aspect than that at Sparta . It was not unusual , we are informed , for masters ...
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... Scythia was openly an atheist , and took much plea- sure in ridiculing those who sacrificed to the gods ; though at the close of his life , he retracted his former sentiments , and professed repentance for all , which he had said ...
... Scythia was openly an atheist , and took much plea- sure in ridiculing those who sacrificed to the gods ; though at the close of his life , he retracted his former sentiments , and professed repentance for all , which he had said ...
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... Scythians , " says a modern historian , " by the pictures , drawn by Horace and Juvenal , their virtues and morals are worthy to be held forth , as examples to mankind . But if , as Herodotus says , their daughters could not be married ...
... Scythians , " says a modern historian , " by the pictures , drawn by Horace and Juvenal , their virtues and morals are worthy to be held forth , as examples to mankind . But if , as Herodotus says , their daughters could not be married ...
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And Occasional Sermons Jesse Appleton. The resemblance between the ancient Scythians and the American natives , has often , and with good reason , been re- marked . Among both , we notice the same horrible ferocity . In treating the ...
And Occasional Sermons Jesse Appleton. The resemblance between the ancient Scythians and the American natives , has often , and with good reason , been re- marked . Among both , we notice the same horrible ferocity . In treating the ...
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