This was the germ of the cruel and oppressive repartimientos and encomiendas which were destined to depopulate the islands and to bring an indelible stigma on the Spanish colonial system in the Indies.
Not only did hedepopulate the sea-coast, but also countries and large kingdoms where he killed numberless people, sending them to hell.
And when thou speakest of the Divine Principle as One, dost thou not, O presumptuous man, depopulate the Halls of Ida?
The offspring of the aforesaid Venus Generatrix must have been especially ungrateful; and if it be true that Julius Caesar was her son, he certainly exerted his best endeavours to depopulate his mother's territories.
A farm close to the town had long been the centre of uncanny noises, such as terrified the peasants almost to death, and might have gone near to depopulate the neighbourhood had not some very bold people gone over to inspect.
Lords should not depopulate by usurping enclosures, a thing hateful to God and offensive to man.
A landlord who was determined to depopulate could hardly in the long run be prevented from succeeding in his object.
Taxes on land or corn, especially when they are excessive, lead to two results so fatal in their effect that they cannot but depopulate and ruin, in the long run, all countries in which they are established.
Now, sir, if Congress fear to sell their lands lest it tend to depopulate the Atlantic States, what must they apprehend from propositions like these?
In a short time, the Northern and Eastern States will supply us with their manufactures; if you depopulate the rich low country of South Carolina and Georgia, you will give us a blow which will immediately recoil on yourselves.
The effect of this system was actually to depopulate many parishes.
Lay waste the Bulgar's land, so that, when the Turks attack todepopulate our lands, they will find no useful supplies.
Smiling, Kherboga said to them, "Will they depopulate the East with with these shining, powerful arms?
But do you believe there exists (I don't know where) a being perpetually occupied in punishing the wicked men and women who people and depopulate the four quarters of our little world?
This madness had contributed more than the most cruel wars to lay waste and depopulate the earth.
They slew his people; and all to gain that hard and yellow earth which has only served to depopulate and impoverish Spain; for it has made her neglect the cultivation of the earth, which really nourishes man.
I am no longer surprised at those pestilential diseases that frequently depopulate Persepolis.
While they depopulate America, they find not the least difficulty in providing for the wants of the emigrating myriads to the coast of Africa: we have ships enough, and, notwithstanding the hardness of the times, money enough.
New combinations of armies arose and new labyrinths of intrigue were woven, and for several years wars, with their usual successes and disasters, continued to impoverish and depopulate the nations of Europe.
The Tartars followed up their victory with their accustomed inhumanity, and, as if it were their intention to depopulate the country, swept it in all directions, putting the inhabitants indiscriminately to the sword.
The order to depopulate Atlanta was obeyed amid agonies and sorrows indescribable," Colonel J.
The whites caught these words ringing clear and distinct: "We will depopulate this whole country of whites.
It is a destruction, which, if general but for ten years, would depopulate the world, blast the purposes of its creation, and extinguish the human race.
Reason methought was on my side; and the chances were by no means contemptible, that there should exist in some part of Italy a survivor like myself--of a wasted, depopulate land.
For the benefit of trade and religion, Los Rios thinks it advisable to depopulate Macao and suppress it.
It was even planned to destroy every Chinaman on the islands, and they were in a fair way to do it, when, at length, the Spaniards bethought themselves that by so doing they would practically depopulate the islands of tradesmen and mechanics.
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