He appears to have been a convert from Paganism to Christianity, although it was asserted in later times that his father had been a bishop.
Bishop Atterbury, whom it was asserted that Mar had betrayed.
They asserted that the whole blame of that transaction was owing to Cuitlahuatzin, the successor of Montezuma, who had received the spoil and sacrificed the prisoners.
Among these, Pedro Gonzalez de Truxillo, having asserted truly that his district was dependent on Mexico, Guzman immediately ordered him to be hanged.
Ortiz asserted that they had been mixed up with arsenic, and that he had refrained from eating them from suspicion; but some who were present declared that he partook of them heartily, and declared they were the best he had ever tasted.
One Antonio de Orihuela likewise, who had only arrived of late from Spain, was beheaded, having imprudently assertedthat the Almagrians were tyrants and usurpers.
Yet nature had asserted itself even in the convent.
Eventually, when the fire had sunk to a heap of smouldering coals, tired nature asserted itself and the men slept.
Mitanni, and had asserted their supremacy over it.
At any rate, his son, who is styled Ramses VIL, but who is asserted by some to have been a son of Ramses III.
It is often asserted that they are made of rose granite, but Jollois and Devilliers describe them as being of "a species of sandstone breccia, composed of a mass of agate flint, conglomerated together by a remarkably hard cement.
The mother of Pierre could never abide this picture which she had alwaysasserted did signally belie her husband.
But we are going farther than this," asserted the Patchwork Girl, bending her stuffed body backward until her yarn hair touched the floor and then walking around on her hands with her feet in the air.
But the Lion and the Mule cannot stand the prickers," asserted Dorothy, "and we can't leave them behind.
Well, Scraps has a lot of brains, even if she is stuffed with cotton," asserted the Wizard.
He never makes a mistake," asserted the Bear King, stoutly.
His own skill had raised the thing that he had thought was dead into new life, and now it asserted its old supremacy.
But when the stars came out, and the silence of night succeeded, nature asserted her rights, and he slept undisturbed by dreams of carnage and bloodshed, but his visions were of home and its charms.
It seems more than probable that D'Holbach at first held opinions differing widely from those entertained by him during the later periods of his life, and it is asserted that Diderot contributed much to this change of opinion.
It has at all times been alternatelyasserted that Matter felt, or did not feel, and given rise to disputes equally loud and vague.
But would not the doctrine be dangerous that should establish our inability to help our belief; and might we not stretch the principle, until we asserted our inability to help our actions?
The beauty of the straight line had asserted its power, and fashion felt its sway.
This will have to be asserted some day, and the assertion will not become easier by delay.
But he asserted that British rule, once established there, must be maintained at all costs.
It promised that China would respect the Hague Convention, regarding the humane conduct of the war, and asserted that China's object was to hasten peace.
It was asserted by American gunnery experts that the Browning excels all other weapons of its type.
The Berlin message asserted that the Premier's offer had created great dissatisfaction in Bulgaria and that strong military measures had been taken to support the Bulgarian front.
The Germanic court of Austria asserted that the crime was the result of a conspiracy, leading directly to the Slavic court of Serbia.
And certainly I am of a firm opinion that the stones which remain in her walls are worthy of reverence; and it is asserted and proved that the ground whereon she stands is worthy beyond all other that is occupied by man.
And thus it is proved that the argument, which asserted that oblivion is the cause of Nobility, is false.
By many, Prudence, that is, good, judgment or wisdom, is well assertedto be a Moral Virtue.
In like manner, Michael Scot asserted that he had made many translations; but the truth was, that a certain Jew named Andrew worked more than he upon them.
I strongly suspect that those who have asserted this, have experienced but little of it.
It has been asserted that we can accept things as matters of faith which to our reason would be utterly incredible.
Thus St. Paul claims acceptance for the things which he asserted because he had been taught them by Revelation from Jesus Christ, not because he had proved their truth, by working miracles in confirmation of them.
But the existence of documents is expressly assertedby the author of St. Luke's Gospel.
She was no demoniac, but an ordinary diseased person, and the disease is asserted to have been occasioned by demoniacal action.
These are only asserted to have taken place on one occasion, at Ephesus, a city greatly addicted to the arts of magic.
I must therefore endeavour to ascertain what is the extent of the supernaturalism asserted in the New Testament, and what is the degree of evidential value which its writers claim for it.
If our Lord was in truth what he asserted himself to be, supernatural manifestations would be the concomitants of his presence.
The agency of some of the known forces of nature is unequivocally assertedin the Old Testament to have been the media employed in the performance of some of its miracles.
We know on the same authority that the whole apostolic body asserted that they had seen the Lord, and that as many as five hundred other persons made a similar assertion.
At first he assumed that he could dictate a policy, and asserted that he would not tolerate the follies of the king nor allow France to appear as an accomplice in stupidity and fanaticism.
Sometimes she asserted that Christ was with her, sometimes that she was Christ himself or the bride of Christ; often she held conversations with the Virgin in which she spoke for both.
Still, the Inquisition asserted to the last its authority under the decree of Urban VIII.
It was in vain that the Holy See asserted its unquestioned right of decision and ordered the Inquisition to suppress the superstition.
To make matters sure, this was followed by an order of August 9th, that this exclusive cognizance should beasserted in the Edict of Faith.
Joana asserted that her confession to the vicar had been made through fear of torture and she overcame torture without confessing, as likewise did Olalla.
Another which asserted that devotion to images, rosaries, blessed beads etc.
It had grieved her to have it insinuated that her husband was an atheist, and asserted that her husband was a cormorant; but his courage had sustained her, and his continual victories had taught her to believe at last that he was indomitable.
If everybody had been accurate, everybody would have asserted that he did this thing every other day.
Among the boy's other possessions was a parrot, which the admiral asserted was the smartest bird in the world.
I know it is frequently broadly asserted that the most of the birds used are made birds, but the manufactured creatures are poor deceptions; they are mixed with bird feathers, and are sold only to the less fastidious customers.
It seemed as though the common bond of brotherhood had now asserted itself amidst the ranks of the rival hosts.
How could you so far mistake my character as to suppose I was the seducer of Seymour's mistress: I think one of your letters asserted so much.
It is further asserted that you sold out all your stock at a high price, with the exception of that in the leased lines, which are guaranteed heavy dividends.
The racial instinct in them had asserted itself, had warned them that to suppress freedom in religion were to suppress it in life, to paralyze that individual initiative which was the secret of their advancement.
Three seconds later realities asserted themselves, and the soft light died from his eyes.
