The Inquisition Unmasked: Being an Historical and Philosophical Account of that Tremendous Tribunal, Founded on Authentic Documents; and Exhibiting the Necessity of Its Suppression, as a Means of Reform and Regeneration, Written and Published at a Time when the National Congress of Spain was about to Deliberate on this Important Measure, Volumen 2

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816
 

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Página 421 - Denied the charity of dust, to spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. . What could I do? What succour? What resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I...
Página 383 - Fair Themis first presents the golden bowl, And anxious asks what cares disturb her soul ? To whom the white-arm'd goddess thus replies : "Enough thou know'st the tyrant of the skies, Severely bent his purpose to fulfil, 100 Unmoved his mind, and unrestrain'd his will.
Página 208 - Lord ? why hid'st thou now thy face, When dismal times of deep distress call for thy wonted grace ? 2 The wicked, swell'd with lawless pride, have made the poor their prey ; O let them fall by those designs which they for others lay. 3 For straight they triumph, if success their thriving crimes attend ; And sordid wretches, whom God hates, perversely they commend.
Página 160 - It must have been at a later period, when the national genius became more subdued, and every Spaniard dreaded to find under his own roof a spy or an informer, that another proverb arose, Con el rey y la inquisicion, chiton ! '• With the king and the inquisition, hush ! " The gravity and taciturnity of the nation have been ascribed to the effects of this proverb.
Página 182 - Wickliff, and John Huss; in a word, because he was guilty of all imaginable heresies...
Página 433 - Ufizio sono ormai inutili nel GranDucato, che i soli Vescovi hanno ricevuto da Dio il Sacro Deposito della Fede, che fa ad essi un torto il dividere con altri la porzione più gelosa della loro potestà e che essi saranno tanto più impegnati ad usarne con la maggior vigilanza quando siano soli a risponderne a...
Página 63 - Otra, y aun otra vegada te lloro, Porque Castilla perdió tal tesoro No conocido delante la gente. Perdió los tus libros sin ser conocidos Y como en exequias te fueron ya luego Unos metidos al avido fuego, Y otros sin orden no bien repartidos...
Página 275 - Voto a Dios que me espanta esta grandeza y que diera un doblón por describilla: porque ¿a quién no sorprende y maravilla esta máquina insigne, esta riqueza? Por Jesucristo vivo, cada pieza vale más de un millón, y que es mancilla que esto no dure un siglo, ¡oh gran Sevilla! Roma triunfante en ánimo y nobleza. Apostaré que el ánima del muerto por...
Página 23 - Aquí la envidia y mentira me tuvieron encerrado. Dichoso el humilde estado del sabio que se retira de aqueste mundo malvado; y con pobre mesa y casa, en el campo deleitoso, con sólo Dios se compasa ya solas su vida pasa ni envidiado ni envidioso.
Página 180 - Catherine, as soon as the flames began to encircle her, screamed out repeatedly for them to withdraw her from thence, although uniformly persisting not to invoke the name of Jesus. On the flames touching Vails, he covered himself, resisted, and struggled as long as he was able. Being fat...

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