| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 Seiten
...delicate and brawny xx ' parts both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts *. If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life. Every messenger who escaped across the British RestoraChannel conveyed the most melancholy and alarming... | |
| John Ranking - 1826 - 560 Seiten
...victory : the new governor landed at Sandwich, AD 367. which they prepared for their horrid repasts.. If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...contemplate, in the period of the Scottish history, the extremes of savage arid civilized life. Such reflections tend to enlarge the circle of our ideas; and... | |
| George Buchanan, James Aikman - 1827 - 710 Seiten
...of Buchanan, that the Attacotti •were within the limits of the Roman province. " If," says he, " in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life," Hist, of the Decline, &c. vol. iv- The character given by the Saint, whose veracity, Gibbon says, "... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1837 - 640 Seiten
...If," says Mr. Gibbon, in speaking of the Attacotti, a Caledonian nation of the fourth century, — " if, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate in the Scottish history the opposite extremes of savage and civilised life. Such reflections tend to enlarge... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1837 - 644 Seiten
...If," says Mr. Gibbon, in speaking of the Attacotti, a Caledonian nation of the fourth century, — " if, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate in the Scottish history the opposite extremes of savage and civilised life. Such reflections tend to enlarge... | |
| 1853 - 628 Seiten
...gentem Brittannicam humanis vesci carnibus« rell. Gibbo (bistory, cap. XXV.) non addubitavit, quin „in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...of Glasgow a race of cannibals has really existed" ; sed contra Hieronymum atque Gibbonem Herrn. Muellerus (Die Marken et с. р. 32* sq.) inter alia... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1839 - 646 Seiten
...'Sf fourth century, — " if, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary town of (>'j»?nw, a race of cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate in the Scottish history '•>• 'jppcwte extremes of savage and civilised life. Such reflections tend to... | |
| Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 Seiten
...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts. If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the Scotish history, the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life. Such reflections tend to enlarge... | |
| Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 Seiten
...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts. If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the Scotish history, the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life. Such reflections tend to enlarge... | |
| John Allen Giles - 1847 - 440 Seiten
...taking place of the marriage-rite, is passed over by the reader as hardly worthy of his notice ! " If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...history, the opposite extremes of savage and civilized lifeg." In the midst of the ravages, which these barbarians wrought in Britain, Valentinian succeeded... | |
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