Mary’s bishops came back brooding over the long catalogue of humiliations and indignities which their Church had suffered, and thirsting to avenge their own wrongs.
Philip had so long and so tamely submitted to the many injuries and indignities which Elizabeth heaped upon him, that it is not wonderful if she had come to think that he would never pluck up courage to retaliate.
The wholesale butchery,--the ghastly spectacle of nearly three hundred mutilated bodies, hewed and hacked into fragments, were nothing to the inhuman indignities perpetrated on the women.
They saw that the enemy were suffered to triumph over and insult them—that the worst indignities were unresented, the vilest outrages unpunished.
The following extracts from Captain Johnson’s Journal will show better than anything else theindignities to which they were subjected: “December 28.
Gonzalo's remains were not exposed to the indignities inflicted on Carbajal's, whose quarters were hung in chains on the four great roads leading to Cuzco.
He was greatly displeased at the indignities offered to the viceroy; whose mangled remains he caused to be buried with the honors due to his rank in the cathedral of Quito.
It was under such conditions as this that the women suffered untold indignities and misery.
Hugging their babes to their breasts, some were hewn in pieces, while others suffered shameful indignities and were led away among the captives, to sojourn in a strange land.
For another, he has sworn to seize the Great Great One, and turn him into the meanest of slaves, to heap indignities upon him far worse than any we have heaped upon his vile carrion carcase, indignities which are not to be named.
I am quite sure you will not allow yourselves to be made the agents of sending such men to herd with the lowest criminals, and to be subjected to all the indignities such punishment involves.
Since my return to my kingdom I have undergone great indignities from this unreflecting people.
Martyrdom is the more glorious the greater the indignities it endures.
That monument to honoured dead could never shed its hallowed spirit of peace again if once it had been outraged with the indignities of a gibbet!
Theological antipathy further increased their indignities towards a person, whom they regarded as impious on account of the excommunication which had been pronounced against him.
Having asked whether they had any more indignitiesto put upon him, and renewing some devout ejaculations, he patiently endured the last act of the executioner.
And Columbus at last came before Queen Isabella, ill in body and broken in mind from the hardships and indignities that he suffered.
Then, when he commenced to treat her with the indignities to which the peasants were accustomed she resented it, disclosing the fact that she was from the upper classes.
The deputation withdrew, cut to the quick by the indignities which they, rightly or wrongly, conceived themselves to have sustained.
Of the many other shameful indignities to which he was subjected--indignities which finally drove him into rebellion, and involved him in overwhelming disaster--the narrative will hereafter take full account.
This, of itself, would have gone far towards reconciling him to the indignities which had been heaped upon him, for notoriety was very dear to his heart.
Many of the voters disapproved of some of his acts, but his paper was largely read among them, and it was felt that some recompense was due to him for the indignities which he had suffered.
Cannon were heaped various indignities and on his arrival in Utah he was placed under forty-five thousand dollar bonds.
This lawless waste of our trade, and equally unlawful imprisonment of our seamen, have been much aggravated by the insults and indignities attending them.
Such is the spectacle of injuries andindignities which have been heaped on our country; and such the crisis which its unexampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert.
Footnote 1501: Yet Gibbon himself records a speech of the emperor Galerius, which alludes to the cruelties exercised against the living, and the indignities to which they exposed the dead Valerian, vol.
Therefore Mr De Loutherbourg has retired from the practice into the country (for the present), having suffered all the indignities and contumely that man could suffer, joined to ungrateful behaviour, and tumultuous proceedings.
Stories might be ferreted up of the indignities to which he submitted at the hands of a domineering valet.
As to the brutalindignities of his death, he said: "I am far above all this, and I hope my friend Brandt feels the same.
In this position he and his comforter remained while the last indignities were being wrought upon Brandt's poor body, and together they prayed until Struensee was informed that his turn had come.
The same revolting indignities were committed on Struensee's corpse as on that of Brandt; it is unnecessary to repeat them.
Even the ambassadors and consuls of friendly powers were treated withindignities beyond belief.
For endless generations man has struggled upward against the indignities of his body--and the indignities of his soul.
The absurdities of courts and the indignities of representative parliamentary government, coupled with the opening of vast fields of opportunity in other directions, had withdrawn the best intelligences more and more from public affairs.
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