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... practices as barbarous and inhuman . ' This account is followed by another example of the fame kind of female intrepidity in modern times , which the author has extracted from Holwell's Interefting Events of Bengal ; to which we refer ...
... practices as barbarous and inhuman . ' This account is followed by another example of the fame kind of female intrepidity in modern times , which the author has extracted from Holwell's Interefting Events of Bengal ; to which we refer ...
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... practice of wives burning in India might commence . However it is pretty clear , that fuch a practice could not have prevailed before the Indians had loft fight of the purity of their ancient faith and doctrines ; and had fallen much ...
... practice of wives burning in India might commence . However it is pretty clear , that fuch a practice could not have prevailed before the Indians had loft fight of the purity of their ancient faith and doctrines ; and had fallen much ...
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... practice coincide with her principles . ' Other inftances of religious fuicide are to be found among the Gentoos : 6 In Banaris , where there is a kind of Gentoo univerfity , on the banks of the Ganges , much celebrated for the fanctity ...
... practice coincide with her principles . ' Other inftances of religious fuicide are to be found among the Gentoos : 6 In Banaris , where there is a kind of Gentoo univerfity , on the banks of the Ganges , much celebrated for the fanctity ...
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... practice correfponds with their faith . Though therefore even in the prefent days an Indian wife burns , an They were called Monoheroes - quod illi foli in alterâ vitâ mi- litiam exercerent , íub vexillis Deorum pugnaturi . - BARTHOLI ...
... practice correfponds with their faith . Though therefore even in the prefent days an Indian wife burns , an They were called Monoheroes - quod illi foli in alterâ vitâ mi- litiam exercerent , íub vexillis Deorum pugnaturi . - BARTHOLI ...
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... practice . " After tracing the practice of fuicide through the eastern and northern nations , in a full detail of interefting particulars , Mr. Moore proceeds to enquire at large into the opinions of the ancient fects of philofophers ...
... practice . " After tracing the practice of fuicide through the eastern and northern nations , in a full detail of interefting particulars , Mr. Moore proceeds to enquire at large into the opinions of the ancient fects of philofophers ...
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