Barrow loads them with the severe, but just, epithets of malignant , unsocial, obstinate, distrustful, sordid , changeable, turbulent; and describes … - William Jones

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Barrow loads them with the severe, but just, epithets of malignant , unsocial, obstinate, distrustful, sordid , changeable, turbulent; and describes them as furiously zealous in succouring their own countrymen, but implacably hostile to other nations; yet, with all the sottish perverseness, the stupid arrogance, and the brutal atrocity of their character, they had the peculiar merit, among all races of men under heaven, of preserving a rational and pure system of devotion in the midst of wild polytheism , inhuman or obscene rites, and a dark labyrinth of errours produced by ignorance and supported by interested fraud ."