[65] “They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils, and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan.”—Psalm cvi. 26, 27.
“Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”—Micah, vi. 7.
[66] 2 Kings, xvi. 3.
[67] Jeremiah, xxxii. 35.
[68] Vol. ii. p. 264.
[69] See before, p. [191].—The pine does not flourish in Sardinia. Deal planks for house-building are imported from Corsica.
[70] Annual Statement of Trade and Navigation presented to Parliament.
[71] The vehicular statistics of Sardinia, ten years before, as summed up by Mr. Warre Tyndale, show three vehicles for hire at Porto Torres, seven at Sassari, four at Macomer, and about twenty at Cagliari. These and about ten private carriages made the total in this island: sufficient, he adds, for the unlocomotive propensities of the inhabitants and their almost roadless country. Things were not much improved at the period of our visit.
[72] Memorie Politico-Economiche intorno alla Sardegna nel 1852, di Vincenzo Sala, da Venezia. Seconda Edizione, riveduta dall'Autore.
[73] We do not include, in the enumeration of free states, the Swiss confederacy, nor flourishing Holland. Both date their liberties to much earlier times.