An Autobiography: My Schools And Schoolmasters; Or, the Story of My Education
An Autobiography: My Schools And Schoolmasters; Or, the Story of My Education
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" If time," says Sir Walter Scott, " did not per- mit the buccaneers to lavish away their plunder in their usual debaucheries, they were wont to hide it, with many superstK tious solemnities, in the desert islands and keys which they frequented, and where much treasure, whose lawless owners perisJied without reclaiming it, is still supposed to be concealed.
Hie most cruel of mankind are often the most superstitious ; and those pirates are said to have had recourse to a horrid ritoal, in order t...o secure an unearthly guardian to their treas- ures. They killed a negro or Spaniard, and buried him with tiEie treasure, believing that his spirit would haunt the spot, and terrify away all intruders." There is a figurative pecuU* arity in the language in which Joshua denounced the man who diould dare rebuild Jericho, that seems to point at some an- cient pagan rite of this kind. Nor does it seem improbable that a practice which existed in times so little remote as those of the buccaneers may have first begun in the dark and cruel d by Google 224 MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMAflTEBS ; ages of human sacriioe.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" If time," says Sir Walter Scott, " did not per- mit the buccaneers to lavish away their plunder in their usual debaucheries, they were wont to hide it, with many superstK tious solemnities, in the desert islands and keys which they frequented, and where much treasure, whose lawless owners perisJied without reclaiming it, is still supposed to be concealed.
Hie most cruel of mankind are often the most superstitious ; and those pirates are said to have had recourse to a horrid ritoal, in order t...o secure an unearthly guardian to their treas- ures. They killed a negro or Spaniard, and buried him with tiEie treasure, believing that his spirit would haunt the spot, and terrify away all intruders." There is a figurative pecuU* arity in the language in which Joshua denounced the man who diould dare rebuild Jericho, that seems to point at some an- cient pagan rite of this kind. Nor does it seem improbable that a practice which existed in times so little remote as those of the buccaneers may have first begun in the dark and cruel d by Google 224 MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMAflTEBS ; ages of human sacriioe.
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