 ... the unfortunate offspring of their fellow creatures. These men may truly be said * to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.' There is no accounting (as Mr. Bryant observes) for the infatuation of nations, and the inconsistency of their practices....  Journal of a Tour in the Levant - Side 370av William Turner - 1820Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 444 sider
...nations, and the inconsistency of their practices. The PJirnicians, who were so liberal of man's blood, would not hurt a cow ; and the Carthaginians held it worse than sacrilege to maim fta ap'.-. . * jag. 7+ Blanditiis, et osculo comprimente vagitum, neflebilis hostia immoletur. These... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 528 sider
...nations, and the incon»istency of their practices. The Phfniciaiu, who were so liberal of man's blood, would not hurt a cow ; and the Carthaginians held it worse than sacrilege to main: an ape. ing. 74 Blanditiis, et osculo covtprimenfe vagitum, neflebilis hostia immoletur. These... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 622 sider
...nations, and the inconsistency of their practices. The Phenicians, who were so liberal of man's blood, would not hurt a cow ; and the Carthaginians held it •worse than sacrilege to maim an ape. No certain information was procured by Major Walker as to the number of female infants annually destroyed... | |
 | 1812 - 560 sider
...nations, and the inconsistency of their practices. .The Phenicians, who were so liberal of man's blood, would not hurt a cow ; and the Carthaginians held it worse than sacrilege to maim an ape. No certain information was procured by Major Walker as to the number of female infants annually destroyed... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1812 - 562 sider
...nations, and the inconsistency of their practices. The Fhenicians, who were so liberal of man's blood, would not hurt a cow ; and the Carthaginians held it worse than sacrilege to maim an ape. No certain information was procured by Major Walker as to the number of female infants annually destroyed... | |
 | William Turner - 1820 - 582 sider
...with which they sacrifice those of men. This seems to be commpn to barbarous nations. The Phoenicians (says Bryant, Ant. Mythol., Vol. VI.) who were so...the offence, or even an aggravated commission of it, wbuld have been death, and this at a time when the killing of a man could be atoned for by a moderate... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1820 - 594 sider
...nations, and the inconsistency of their practices. The Phenicians, who were so liberal of man's blood, would not hurt a cow ; and the Carthaginians held it worse than sacrilege to maim an ape. No certain information was procured by Major Walker as to the number of female infants annually destroyed... | |
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