 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts."7 If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...Scottish history, the opposite extremes of savage and civilised life. Such reflections tend to enlarge the circle of our ideas ; and to encourage the pleasing... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 464 pages
...in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary town of GlasgoAV, a race of cannibals bas realty existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the...the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life. Such reflections tend to enlarge the circle of our ideas ; and to encourage the pleasing hope, that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts117. If, in tin- neighbourhood of the commercial and literary town of Glasgow, a race of canibals has really existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the Scottish history, the opposite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...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 - Circus - 1826 - 560 pages
...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 - Scotland - 1827 - 710 pages
...of Buchanan, that the Attacotti •were within the limits of the Roman province. " If," says he, " in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary...belonged only to some scattered savages, 'it never characterized the whole Scots, and corroborates the assumption that they, the Attacotti, were a distinct... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 468 pages
...and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts. (117) If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary town of Glasgow, a race 01" cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the Scottish history, the opposite... | |
 | Edward Jerningham Wakefield, John Ward - Great Britain - 1837 - 476 pages
...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...the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life. Such reflections tend to enlarge the circle of our ideas, and to encourage the pleasing hope, that... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1837 - 640 pages
...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 - Geography - 1837 - 644 pages
...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... | |
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If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary town of Glasgow, a race of cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the Scottish history, the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life. 
