 | Edward Jones - 1794 - 208 pages
...crimes, were either {lain on the altars, or burnt alive enclofed in wicker, as a facrifice to the Deity. Nothing but the life of man could atone for the life of another. Abfjiinence from women, until fuch a period of age, they highly commended; imagining that... | |
 | 1796 - 746 pages
...offered human victims, Luc in. i. 41.5. Lacb.nr. dc fa If. iclig. i. 21. It was an article, in their creed, that nothing but the life of man could atone for the lite of man. O;ifolemnoccafions they reared huge images, whofe members, wrought with ofiers, they filled... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1802 - 914 pages
...offered human vi^.b-.n?, Luían. I. 44;. j Laffeet, de falf. rfltr. \. ц. It wii an article in their creed, that nothing but the life of man could atone for the life «i man. On folemn uccadnn* they reared huje images, whofe member«, wrought withofitrs, thcv nllrd... | |
 | 1803 - 540 pages
...victims to their gods. On some occasions the victims were consumed entirely upon the altar. It was an article in the Druidical creed, that nothing but the life of man could attone for the life of man. In consequence of this their altars streamed with human blood : these altars... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1805 - 412 pages
...they proceeded to the moft horrid lengths of cruelty in their fuperftition, and offered human victims to their Gods. It had unhappily become an article...of wretched men fell a facrifice to their barbarous fuperflition. On fome great occafions they formed a huge colofial figure of a man, of ofier twigs,... | |
 | Thomas Wood - 1805 - 296 pages
...Carthagenians, Greeks, and Romans, offered human victims. And the druidical creed contained this article, / ' " That nothing but the life of man could atone for the life of man," fo their altars frequently ftreamed with human blood. Upon fome occafions they formed, of ofier twigs,... | |
 | Thomas Hogg - 1811 - 120 pages
...supplications ; offerings and sacrifices. Human victims constitute a melancholy feature in this formula. It was an article in the Druidical creed " that nothing but...the life of man could atone for the life of man." Hence, their altars streamed with human blood ; and numbers of wretched men fell a sacrifice to the... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1814 - 444 pages
...fuperftition, and offered human victims to their Gods. It had unhappily become an article in the druidi. cal creed, " That nothing but the life of man " could...facrifice to their barbarous fuperftition. On fome great occafions they formed a huge coloffal figure of a man, of ofier twigs, and having filled it with... | |
 | William Eastmead - 1824 - 536 pages
...Rowland's Moua Antiqua, Lucan, lib, 1, rer. 460, Martin's Dissert, of West. Isles. From their idea that nothing but the life of man could atone for the life of man, their altars streamed with human blood, they sacrificed their victims at the eve of a dangerous war,... | |
 | Thomas Wood - 1825 - 440 pages
...that it was but rarely, or only on extraordinary occasions. One article in the Druidical creed was, " That nothing but the life of man could atone for the life of man." Whether this was a primitive doctrine, handed down by. oral tradition, and thus corrupted, we cannot... | |
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... and offered human victims to their Gods. It had unhappily become an article in the druidical creed, " That nothing but the life of man " could atone for the life of man. 
