 Researches ; III, 182. At page 187 of the same volume, Dr. Prichard also remarks, " Of all Pagan nations the Gauls and Britons appear to have had the most sanguinary rites. They may well be compared in this respect with the Ashauti, Dahomehs, and other...  Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind - Page 187by James Cowles Prichard - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Wilson Armistead - Literary Collections - 1848 - 654 pages
...the Australians." Researches ; III, 182. At page 187 of the same volume, Dr. Prichard also remarks, " Of all Pagan nations the Gauls and Britons appear...They may well be compared in this respect with the Ashauti, Dahomehs, and other nations of Western Africa." 33 Yet this is the sort of reasoning employed... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - African Americans - 1848 - 668 pages
...the Australians." Kesearches ; III, 182. At page 187 of the same volume, Dr. Priehard also remarks, " Of all Pagan nations the Gauls and Britons appear...have had the most sanguinary rites. They may well he compared in this respect with the Ashanti, Dahomehs, and other nations of Western Africa." €nhit... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical geography - 1850 - 790 pages
...with Jupiter, because tar an is the Cymric word for thunder. XIV. Of all the pagan nations, the Gauls appear to have had the most sanguinary rites. They may well be compared in this respect with the Ashantees, Dahomehs, and other nations of Western Africa. Caesar says that, in threatening diseases,... | |
 | Charles Walker Morse - Atlases - 1858 - 330 pages
...descendants of the Gauls have lost the yellow hair of their forefathers. Of all the pagan nations, the Gauls appear to have had the most sanguinary rites. They may well be compared in this respect with the Ashantces, Dahomehs, and other nations of Western Africa. 140 ANCIENT AND MODERN EUROPE. Their funeral... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1872 - 670 pages
...notice the " boldness, levity, fickleness," and unchastity of the Gauls ; " and Prichard adds : 12 " Of all Pagan nations the Gauls and Britons appear to have had the most sanguinary rites." In 1818, Dr. Combe observed at Paris that the heads of Frenchmen " sloped backwards from the nose "... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 262 pages
...Zealand. Later in the same work, in regard to the barbarism of the early Britons, he remarked that "Of all Pagan nations the Gauls and Britons appear...well be compared in this respect with the Ashanti, the Dahomehs, and other nations of Western Africa'. " Interestingly, Prichard here implies an intimate... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - Social Science - 2005 - 617 pages
...rohime, Dr. Prieliard also remarks, " Of all Pagan nations the Gauls and Britons appear to hare had tlie most sanguinary rites. They may well be compared in this respect with the Ashanti, Dahomeas, and other nations of Western Africa." Yet this is the sort of reasoning employed by the perpetrators... | |
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