 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 510 pages
...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 - 408 pages
...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 - 822 pages
...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 - 748 pages
...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 - 514 pages
...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 - 914 pages
...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 - 456 pages
...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 - 422 pages
...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 - 432 pages
...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 - 558 pages
...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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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 them with blood drawn from... 
