 A Thug considers the persons murdered precisely in the light of victims offered up to the goddess; and he remembers them as a priest of Jupiter remembered the oxen, and a priest of Saturn the children sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 121838Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1836 - 818 pages
...the same reason. upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings, he perpetrates them without any emotions of pity, and he remembers...inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or in the hour of death. 7. I must at the same time state that I have very rarely discovered any instance of what may,... | |
 | 1837 - 312 pages
...children sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings ; he perpetrates them without any emotions of pity ; and he remembers...inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or in the hour of death. It is a remarkable fact, and an exhibition of the workings of the human mind not to be accounted... | |
 | 1837 - 568 pages
...without any misgivings ; he perpetrates them without any emotion of pity ; and he remembers them wi'hout any feelings of remorse. They trouble not his dreams,...inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or in the hour of death.' The account which the Thugs give of the first establishment of their profession will explain... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 pages
...were acting under the immediate orders and auspices of the goddess Devee, Doorgah, Kalee, or Bhawanee, as she is indifferently called ; and, consequently,...both on setting out on an expedition and during its coutinuance. They believe these to have been dictated by Bhawauee, and that on their observance or... | |
 | John Miller Strachan, Late Resident of India, Late resident in India - 1838 - 210 pages
...children, sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings ; he perpetrates them without any emotions of pity ; and he remembers...inquietude, in darkness, in solitude, or in the hour of death. " The execution of the Court's orders for dissolving the connexion of the Government, and its... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1839 - 240 pages
...children sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings, he perpetrates them without any emotions of pity, and he remembers...inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or in the hour of death. I must at the same time state that I have very rarely discovered any instance of what may, perhaps,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pages
...misgiving ; he perpetrates them without any emotion of pity ; and he remembers them without any feeling of remorse. They trouble not his dreams, nor does their recollection ever cause him any inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or the hour of death." How are we to reconcile the rule, in... | |
 | 1843 - 434 pages
...misgiving ; he perpetrates them without any emotion of pity ; and he remembers them without any feeling of remorse. They trouble not his dreams, nor does their recollection ever cause him any inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or the hour of death." How are we to reconcile the rule, in... | |
 | Charles James C. Davidson - 1851 - 192 pages
...children, sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings; he perpetrates them without any emotions of pity; and he remembers...inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or in the hour of death!"—SLEEMAN'S " Ramasccana," pp. 7, 8. (37) Dhunna, Roopin, Muncoree, Purbee, Gungeea, Seemurta,... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - 1868 - 304 pages
...children sacrificed upon the altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings, he perpetrates them without any emotions of pity, and he remembers...inquietude in darkness, in solitude, or in the hour of death." ' — (P. 1S0.) The Thuggee Department, which has been formed for the extinction of this horrible... | |
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