If men had followed him they never could have fallen into the absurd theological beliefs of foreordination, infant damnation, the resurrection of the flesh, and all the other theological horrors and atrocities of the centuries.
Never had Pagan Danes or Norwegians been guilty of such atrocities as were perpetrated on this memorable occasion.
He had been guilty, it is true, in his time, of what we should call terrific atrocities to his prisoners; which he calmly and calculatingly perpetrated as utu, or retaliation for similar barbarities committed by them or their tribe.
It is however much to the credit of De Soto, that the annalists of those days never mentioned his name in connection with those atrocities which disgraced the administration of Don Pedro.
Las Casas, a devoted Christian missionary, whose indignation was roused to the highest pitch by the atrocities perpetrated upon the Indians, reported the inhuman conduct of Don Pedro to the Spanish government.
In Bengal, the villagers were helpless to resist dacoits, who occasionally committed the most horrible crimes; but since the organisation of police under European superintendence, such atrocities have disappeared from British India.
At some places the atrocities committed on Europeans were heart-rending.
Countless atrocities took place as the Crusaders passed on, as the Jews record with triumph, to perish by plague, famine, and the sword.
Great atrocities were committed by revolting Jews in Egypt, and the retaliation was terrible.
But they increased in both wealth and unpopularity, false tales about atrocities committed by them being bruited abroad.
The Tory leaders took less pains than Thayendanegea to prevent useless slaughter, and some of the atrocities permitted by Walter Butler have never been outdone in the history of savage warfare.
It has more lately been proved that Thayendanegea commanded only his own Mohawks at Cherry Valley, and the atrocities were committed chiefly by Senecas under the command of Sayenqueraghta.
The newspapers, as is their custom, in glaring headlines, magnified the extent of the depredations, and gave alarming accounts of the atrocities committed by the Indians.
If the different tribes that surrendered had been treated with the proper amount of justice, half or more of the blood-curdling atrocities of the latter part of the decade of 1870 would not have occured.
He exonerated the Confederate soldier from sympathy with the atrocities of reconstruction times, and his audience appreciated it.
My intense feeling, caused by the atrocitiesin Louisiana, may have unduly influenced me.
He charged the Democratic party in the south with these atrocities and the continual effort to deprive the negro of his vote, and the audience appreciated that.
At this terrible affair was repeated the atrocitiesof the former.
All the gates of the town were locked but one, through which the Iconoclasts broke forth to renew the same atrocities in the rural districts.
Swarms of Iconoclasts already penetrated into Brabant; and the metropolis, where they were certain of powerful support, was threatened by them with a renewal of the sameatrocities then under the very eyes of majesty.
This proved the truth of the saying; for the atrocitieswere at length put a stop to for a time.
Not greater atrocities were ever committed in a town taken by assault, and given up to the indiscriminate license of an infuriated soldiery, than did those vile monsters of humanity perpetrate during that and the following days.
Dundee was joined at Inverness by Macdonald of Keppoch and his clan, thirsting for revenge because of the atrocities committed upon them and theirs by the soldiers in the previous year.
I have already reduced my men from wolves to lambs, and I should like to see the outrageous acts of mutiny which are the scapegoats of the traders for laying their atrocities upon the men's shoulders.
The details of the fighting and of the atrocities may be found related in cold blood by Timur himself in the Malfuzat-i-Timuri, which has been translated in Elliot's History of India as told by its own Historians, vol.
We have heard all about his atrocities and his perfidy and unspeakablenesses, but the men we met fought fairly and squarely; and as for atrocities it is always well to hear the other side of the question.
These atrocities were used successfully to produce sympathy and create excitement in the United States.
He said that never in his previous war experiences had he seen such unspeakable atrocities as the Germans have committed in Belgium.
About the atrocities in Belgium there is, apparently, no question, but considering the way the Germans controlled themselves in France, some explanation of their brutality farther north in Belgian Flanders is necessary.
Though the book had in it many thousand facts thus authenticated by the slave-holders themselves, yet it contained but a tiny fraction of the nameless atrocities gathered from the papers examined.
I say he is able to let the oppressed go free, and that such heaven-daring atrocities ought to cease now, henceforth, and forever.
Volumes might be filled with the atrocities of 1844; but the foregoing is enough of the sickening subject.
It is safe to say in answer to this that while the report of a particular atrocity may not be true, other atrocities just as horrible have occurred and nothing has been heard of them.
It seemed as if, for the first time, something definite regarding the reported Spanish atrocities had been placed before the people of the United States, which they could see for themselves.
Illustration: Spanish Troops in Action] The Question Of Atrocities One of the questions that is most frequently asked of those who have been in Cuba is how much truth exists in the reports of Spanish butcheries.
Of course the policy of the Press in general has been to keep these atrocities from the eyes of the public.
In the name of common sense, we ask if men who encourage or permit such atrocitiesare fit to control and guide the destinies of eight millions of people.
He wrote to the representatives in the State legislature from Clay County, relating the vile atrocities that were heaped upon the heads of the defenseless saints after they had surrendered their arms to General Clark.
All parts of the State were flooded with the falsehoods about "Mormon" atrocities and cruelties--cruelties which never occurred.
On this soil, sexual atrocities and crimes, largely increased by drink, play an important part.
Volumes could be written on sexual atrocities committed by such people.
I dare not write the horrible and inconceivable atrocitiesthey committed on the persons of the ladies.
In spite of the atrocities committed by Robert and his hirelings, the revolt continued with unabated fury, and at last Gregory was constrained to return in person to Italy with the purpose of pacifying the turbulent forces.
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