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" Profligacy eagerly embraces what flatters its propensities, and ignorance follows blindly wherever example excites : it is therefore no wonder that a general corruption of manners should ensue, increasing in proportion as the distance of time involved... "
The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 488
1807
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1807 - 572 pages
...wherever example excites : it is therefore no wonder, that a general corruption of minnen should ensue, increasing, in proportion as the distance of time...to, and intermingled with, gloomy rites and bloody sacrifices:—an heterogeneous mixture, which appears totally irreconcileable, unless by tracing the...
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Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal ...

Asiatic Society of Bengal - Archaeology - 1808 - 582 pages
...excites : it is, therefore, no wonder that a general corruption of manners should ensue, increasing iu proportion as the distance of time involved the original...mixture, which appears totally irreconcileable, unless hy tracing the steps which led to it. It will appear that the ingrafting of a new symbol, upon the...
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The History of British India, Volume 1

James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 688 pages
...wherever example excites : it is therefore no wonder that a general corruption of manners should ensue, increasing in proportion as the distance of time involved...the steps which led to it. It will appear that the ingrafting of anew symbol, upon the old superstition, occasioned this strange medley. The sect of Vishnu...
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The History of British India, Volume 1

James Mill - Hindus - 1840 - 650 pages
...wherever example excites : it is therefore no wonder that a general corruption of manners should ensue, increasing in proportion as the distance of time involved...feature of the popular superstition, and was, even in after-times, extended to, and intermingled with, gloomy rites and bloody sacrifices. An heterogeneous...
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The History of British India, Volume 1

James Mill - Hindus - 1858 - 424 pages
...religion of the Hindus. 1 popu supes, s, vn n ar-ms, xe , an nermnge gled with, gloomy rites and bldody sacrifices. An heterogeneous mixture which appears...the steps which led to it. It will appear that the ingraft1ng of a new symbol upon the old superstition, occasioned this strange medley. The sect of Vishnu...
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Phallism: A Description of the Worship of Lingam-yoni in Various Parts of ...

Hargrave Jennings - Crosses - 1889 - 130 pages
...wherever example excites ; it is therefore no wonder that a general corruption of manners should ensue, increasing in proportion as the distance of time involved...intermingled with gloomy rites and bloody sacrifices, a heterogeneous mixture, which appears totally irreconcilable, unless by tracing the steps which led...
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