The Poles were converted to Christianity by this time, and their spiritual head was the Archbishop of Magdeburg; but now they demanded a separate and national diocese.
He was signally successful in controlling the Saracens, whose language he spoke, whom he converted into subjects, and who afterwards became his best soldiers.
Following the example of Charlemagne, the people were forcibly convertedto Christianity, and new churches and monasteries were founded.
Hermann of Salza obtained from Poland the permission to possess this country for the German Order, and he gradually conquered or converted the native Prussians.
This king and his people had recently been converted to Christianity by the missionary Methodius, but it had made no change in their predatory habits.
The native Finnish or Lithuanian inhabitants were either exterminated or forciblyconverted to Christianity, and an order, called "the Brothers of the Sword," was established for the defence of the colonies.
In those days the warm sulphur springs were converted into a sort of dipping vat in which one hundred and twenty-eight sheep could be washed during the day.
The son became converted to the divinity of those doctrines and espoused the teachings of the Church.
They were kept segregated to prevent collusion and, as the secret prison of the tribunal was inadequate, the inquisitors and officials were turned out of their quarters and seven adjoining houses were hired and converted into gaols.
Accordingly he converted the journey into a visitation, leaving Alcala on the 16th and passing through Fuente el Saz and Talamanca to Torrelaguna, which he reached on the 20th.
It was not the fault of the Inquisition if Spain was not converted into a nation of spies and informers, in which no man could trust those nearest and dearest to him.
When inquisitors punish heretics it is not with the desire to destroy them, but that they shall be converted and live.
He was convinced that, unless the tribes could be federated into compact opposition to their conquering enemies, the hunting-grounds of his people would speedily be converted into the homes and cities of the paleface.
After some years the crude building was demolished and the ground was converted into a park, the present location of the Soldiers' Monument.
Men are {447} not converted by eloquence or oratory; they are convinced when they are satisfied that you have the truth and the Spirit of God.
I feel it in my soul; I am converted to it in my whole being.
More than once ancient structures were converted into cannon-balls.
The Parthenon was converted into a church in the sixth century by Justinian, and dedicated to the Divine Wisdom.
For the occasion the ballroom had been converted into a miniature Lyceum, the proscenium and act-drop of the theatre having been produced on a smaller scale.
It lies beneath an open area in the vicinity of the Atmeidan, and is converted into a silk manufactory by a number of industrious Jews and Armenians.
Whether this was some atmospheric phenomenon which his vivid imagination convertedinto such an object, it is unnecessary to inquire.
The luxuriance of a wild vegetation covers its corn-fields, and its former crops are converted into groves of tamarisk; still it abounds in many indications of its former state.
At Pergamus many of the shafts of the columns of their temples were thus converted into cannon.
Christian capital, and converted the residence of the priests of Santa Sophia into a palace for himself.
After the execution of their venerable patriarch, all sense of sanctity, which the Turks are willing to allow to the sacred character, whatever be the profession, was converted into hatred and insult.
The fortress had for many years been converted into a prison, and may well bear the inscription which Dante read on the infernal portals, “Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate.
They had been converted to Mohammedanism about forty years, and were under an impression that the sins of all those who formed the first expedition against this Christian town would be forgiven; and they set out with a vast fleet.
Beside it is the ancient aqueduct which conveyed water to the great city; and near it a church, supposed to be that of St. John, rebuilt by the emperor Justinian, but now converted into a Turkish mosque.
Other parts of the building are applied to the meanest uses; a portion of it is converted into a manufacture of coarse earthen ware, and filled with heaps of mud, and rude and barbarous pottery.
Also, as it is not lawful for Jews to live in England, he became converted to the Christian faith--seek not to know his motives, they are buried with him.
The Erebus sloop and Baltic, besides a brig, were convertedinto fire-ships.
Sooner or later, each layer, as it becomes more and more deeply covered by the newer ones and farther from the region of growth, is converted into 437.
By extreme shortening of the axis the corymb may be converted into 207.
By a series of slight chemical changes (mainly a variation in the water entering into the composition), one of these forms is converted into another.
Every danger to the republican government of Paris, indeed, arising from an ill-converted and ill-directed confederacy, had been warded off in all quarters.
The composition was to be converted into a land-tax payable to the crown by the same parties who were now liable for the composition.
The pretended loan would be converted into a gift, and England, besides paying its own tithes, would also be paying those of Ireland.
Fair Wyoming," by the bad passions of its inhabitants, was converted into a very hell.
Not a few Englishmen who maintained that the Americans were justified in taking up arms to assert their own rights were convertedby this step adopted by congress.
Another act declared any one newly converted to the Roman Catholic faith, and his children, if educated in that faith, incapable of holding any place of trust or profit.
Wilkes converted this into a fresh wrong; and at the very next meeting of the common-hall another address, still more violent in its tone, was approved.
The third repealed various clauses in certain acts, which constituted the offences specified in them capital, and which were converted into simple felonies.
The division of sympathies which had thus become apparent was converted into a matter of practical politics by the entry of England into the war which a Coalition was waging against the French Republic.
This change converted the task of subjugation from a difficult but practicable one, given sufficient time and determination, to one fundamentally impossible.
He told such people, somewhat to their bewilderment, that he had been converted because Rome alone could satisfy the reason.
A certain thrifty granger of the writer's acquaintance was recently converted from the error of his attitude towards the "tarnal weeds and brush.
He found this membrane converted into a jelly occupying great part of the stomach, which he conjectured was the proximate cause of their death[940].
A yet more idle one was circulated that he had been baptized by the name of Nicholas, but from apprehension of ridicule converted it, when he rose to celebrity, into Napoleon.
His very masterfulness overcame the most stubborn resistance; and more than once the pressure of his dishonourable suit converted hatred into love.
Places once set apart to lofty purposes, still retain the name of that loftiness, even when converted to the meanest uses.
Madam Beatrix also retired to the upper region, her chamber being converted into a sitting-room for my lord.
The third brother also took delight in Italy, where the priests converted him and his Protestant chaplain too.
The Throne itself is converted into a bridge to facilitate the transition from the monarchical to the republican form of government.
Whitman's church membership is as follows: Converted during a revival in the Congregational Church at Plainfield, Mass.
When first converted he resolved to study for the ministry, but a chain of circumstances changed his plans and he studied medicine.
The rich and elegant dressing gown of cashmere and velvet had beenconverted into money and a dowdy-looking stuff wrapper supplied its place.
Helen Rushton was a native of Halifax and had been bred upon strictly conservative principles, but there was an innate generosity of heart that converted them into a happy medium.
It is true that the man at the Salvation Army meeting would probably be converted from the punch bowl; whereas Scrooge was converted to it.
The gardeners had been busy too, and had converted the neglected wilderness we made acquaintance with long ago into a veritable little paradise.
But the profusion of gold and silver plate that used to adorn the festive board of the de Sigognacs had all been converted into coin of the realm long ago.
