The Holy Inquisition was a recognized feature of Spanish political life; and the rulers of the Spanish-American colonies put the stranger and the heretic under a common ban.
The Spanish rulers realized fully that they were too weak effectively to cope with the Americans, and as the pressure upon them grew ever heavier and more menacing they began to fear not only for Louisiana but also for Mexico.
If they paid due deference to their lay and clerical rulers they were little interfered with; and they were in full accord with the governing classes concerning most questions, both of principle or lack of principle, and of prejudice.
Now it is they, the ignorant and the innocent, who must go on suffering, paying in peace for what their rulers did in war.
They have an immense hope that England and America will not push them over into the bottomless abyss, now that they have fulfilled Wilson's demand to get rid of their old rulers and fall into line with the world's democracy.
Then in a century or two, when the first impulsion of Mohammedan conquest was spent, the works of Aristotle and his later Greek commentators were translated into Arabic from Syrian versions, under the encouragement of the rulers of Bagdad.
Secular rulers wield the secular sword at the pope's command.
But it will be said, that rulers owe mutual duties to their subjects.
Also three of the Servants of the Lord #they put to Death#, all of them for obedience to the Truth, in the Testimony of it against the wicked Rulers and Laws at Boston.
The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic.
I have heard of puppet rulers before--woman whom I am delighted to learn has a human heart after all.
It is only reluctantly they have followed the orders from the rulers of our home planets to obey me.
There were attractive points about the Zervs and even about these Schrees' rulers which bore out this impulse toward tolerance in me.
For if there is any meaning in symbols, by the wave of that tricolour yonder the country has changed rulers again.
The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed.
The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying: 'Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Hence the saying of the Politics[157] that those who are strong in understanding are the naturalrulers of others.
The rulers of the Church adopted, therefore, certain external ceremonies, that thus they might captivate the senses of the vulgar, and be able to refute the reproaches of their adversaries.
It does not appear that the rulers of the hierarchy ever found the least fault with Tetzel as exceeding his commission, till an opposition was openly made to the practice of indulgences.
In this evil work the Jews sought to incite their own people living in the outlying parts, and also to arouse the opposition of the officers and rulers of the Roman dominions.
They claimed the right to authorize and direct in the internal affairs of nations, and to make lawful the rebellion of subjects against their rulers if the latter failed to keep favor with the papal power.
What else did Isaiah mean when he called the rulers in Jerusalem 'Rulers of Sodom'?
And that something is the scornful defiance by the rulers of Israel of the prophet's threatenings.
It was too late for the times; for in 1790 the events in France were making all the rulers of Europe pensive.
The rulers of Kiev were at this time related to the Kings of France, Hungary, Norway, and even England.
O masters, lords and rulersin all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing, distorted and soul-quenched?
O masters, lords and rulersin all lands, How will the Future reckon with this Man?
Such is Maxim, the ghost of whose presence appears to bellicose rulersand bids them halt,—and they do halt.
He did not reckon on the jealousy of his success which filled the breasts of the rulers of his country, a jealousy which even self-interest was unable to overcome.
Owing to the special desire of the Scottish rulers every possible degradation was heaped on the imprisoned nobles, and it was a rare favour indeed when they were suffered to die on the block, and not by the common hangman.
The consequence is, that in aristocratic States the rulers are rarely accessible to corruption, and have very little craving for money; whilst the reverse is the case in democratic nations.
It was but the first step towards the realization of his imperial system, by which he was to reign as supreme lord, surrounded by the sub-rulers of his various provinces.
In France or Germany the bishops were members of the great houses, and as powerful local rulers wielded a vast feudal authority.
Shut out as she was by her narrow strip of sea from any real concern in the military movements of the continental peoples, England was still dragged by the policy of her Angevin rulers into all the complications of European politics.
Even then, counterfeit bodies perverted the name until they were suppressed by the natural rulers of the land.
But, on the other hand, the whole condition of the country seemed to indicate that the early Spanish rulers had left a curse upon it from which it had never recovered.
Such actions are not rife in any history, and in mere civic selfishness of purpose the rulers of Venice were on a par with most others.
That lesson therulers of China could not learn, any more than their European congeners.
French rulers of Colbert's day as having "entertained a notion that they could carry on trade after a new unheard-of method: they proposed to sell their goods to their neighbours, and buy none of theirs.
The midway truth seems to be that the dukes or provincial rulers came to feel some identity of interest with their subjects.
We are prepared then, in the second century, under propitious rulers like Hadrian and the Antonines, to find Greek life materially improved.
This was as readily seen by Theodoric and Charlemagne as by the rulers at Constantinople; and to such a perception, broadly speaking, is to be attributed the forcing of Christianity on the northern races by their kings.
He came up to me and said: O Maslamah, it is for the like of this that rulersshould rule.
The fisherman alludes to a practise of Al-Islam, instituted by Caliph Omar, that all rulers should work at some handicraft in order to spare the public treasure.
Their village remains as a stronghold opposed to the petty rulers of those peoples.
Little by little they continued to remain in the land and pay the royal duties, until they became so powerful that they revolted against the real rulers and deprived them of the best of their lands.
The Orangcayas or Ricos-Homes become the rulersof vassals, and have some villages in their charge.
Consequently, on the south coast the rulers of those peoples are the Lutaos, who bear themselves among these nations as princes.
There were no kings or rulers worthy of mention, throughout this archipelago; but there were many chiefs who dominated others less powerful.
In those villages, although the king is recognized, and tribute sent to him, in all else those rulersare absolute; and especially in government affairs are they independent.
The second nation in estimation is the Mindanao, which includes the kingdoms of Buhayen; for in olden times they were all one nation, and today, although various petty rulers govern them, they are one in customs and language.
So far from these new rulers endeavouring to expel or humble the Scots, it was believed that Lancaster was in secret alliance with them; and this afterwards was proved to be true.
The two nations might thus be said to have been at war for some time before their rulers took any part in the matter.
Canute was thus ruler over Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, and none of the English kings, either before or since his time, have ever been rulers over so large a portion of Europe.
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