 | Charles Rollin - 1821 - 558 pages
...victims were drowned by the uninterrupted noise of drums and trumpets. Mothers* made it a merit, and a part of their religion, to view this barbarous spectacle with dry eyes, and without so much as a groan; and if a tear or a sigh stole from them, the sacrifice was less acceptable... | |
 | Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam - 1836 - 384 pages
...victims were drowned by the uninterrupted noise of drums and trumpets. * Mothersf made it a merit, and a part of their religion, to view this barbarous spectacle with dry eyes, and without so much as a groan ; and if a tear or a sigh stole from them, the sacrifice was less acceptable... | |
 | A. R. Craig - 1847 - 408 pages
...drowned by the uninterrupted noise of drums and trumpets. Mothers made it UNIVERSITY a merit and a part of their religion to view this barbarous spectacle with dry eyes, and without so much as a groan ; and if a tear or a sigh stole from them the sacrifice was less acceptable... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1850 - 544 pages
...victims were drowned by the uninterrupted noise of drums and trumpets. Mothers* made it a merit, and a part of their religion, to view this barbarous spectacle with dry eyes, and without so much as a groan ; and, if a tear or a sigh stole from them, the sacrifice was less acceptable... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1881 - 1308 pages
...victims were drowned by the uninterrupted noise of drums pud trumpets.' Mothers"1 made it a merit, and a part of their religion, to view this barbarous spectacle with dry eyes, and without so much as a groan ; and if a tear or a sigh stole from them, the sacrifice was le^i acceptable... | |
 | 1901 - 658 pages
...victims were drowned by the uninterrupted noise of drums and trumpets. Mothers made it a merit, and a part of their religion, to view this barbarous spectacle with dry eyes, and without so much as a groan; and if a tear or a sigh stole from them, the sacrifice was less acceptable... | |
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Mothersf made it a merit, and a part of their religion, to view this barbarous spectacle with dry eyes, and without so much as a groan ; and if a tear or a sigh stole from them, the sacrifice was less acceptable to the deity, and all the effects of it... 