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" Southern Asia, in general, is the seat of awful images and associations. As the cradle of the human race, it would alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and... "
The Album - Page 176
1822
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No uiuii can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is afiected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Indostan, &c. The mere antiquity...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons — no man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of the savage tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is affected by the ancient monumental cruel...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 4

Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 370 pages
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, their institutions, histories, modes of faith, is...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1847 - 270 pages
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tiibes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is affected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...savage tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that ho is affected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Indostan, &c. The mere...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...it would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories — above all, of...
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The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of ..., Volume 2

Alexander Henley Grant - Dreams - 1865 - 420 pages
...it 'would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes elsewhere, can affect him in a way that he is affected by the ancient monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions...
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The literature and curiosities of dreams, by Frank Seafield, Volume 2

Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 pages
...it would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes elsewhere, can affect him in a way that he is affected by the ancient monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...it would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories — above all, of...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa affect him in the way that he is affected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories, and above all of...
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