Despite this fulmination of fury, the worthy bishop continued to use his threatened head in the service of mercy and sympathy.
Commercial paper, or loans advanced by banks to merchants on good security, of course varied.
Charles V paid higher in the market of Antwerp, the extreme instance being that of 50 per cent.
On the whole, the rate of interest fell slightly during the century.
No longer satisfied with the democracy of corporations and castes of the Middle Ages, the people began to dream of the individualistic democracy of modern times.
But usurers, able to take advantage of the necessities of poor debtors, habitually exacted more, as they do now, and loans on small mortgages or on pawned articles often ran at 30 per cent.
The fulmination was sent to Alva to the Netherlands and a devotee was found to carry it to England.
In him we find no blast and blaze of propaganda, no fulmination of bull and ban; nor any tide of earth-encircling Rabelaisian mirth.
It is true that, since the fulmination of the papal anathema, the zealots of this church had kept no measures with respect to her either in their words, their writings, or their actions.
Every acute disease is fulminant, even indigestion is fulminant, but the force of the warring elements is soon expended and unless reinforced by fresh elements the fulmination must end.
Pendleton's fulmination appeared to have been expected by those who had previously been pursuing Longstreet.
He explains the fulmination by the elastic fluid suddenly generated by the decomposition of the ammonia.
It is for our readers to say how much weight is to be given to that portion of the fulmination of the Prophet put forth under such circumstances.
This high-handed outrage was immediately followed by a fulmination from Brigham Young, warning the gentiles to leave the Territory, and throwing out various dark hints of the consequences in case the warning should be disregarded.
