Continued severities of the Star chamber in England; Prynne a second time its victim, together with Burton, Bastwick, and Lilburne.
Among the observers of these severities was Francis Bacon, then rising into eminence as a politician and lawyer.
Many of the men had been in the East India service, and in the habit of sailing in tropical climates, and were consequently very unwilling to endure the severities of a high northern latitude.
But now, chagrined with disappointments, and dispirited by the severities of the climate, they could view the design of the Trustees in no other light than that of having decoyed them into misery.
Here the little army of the Colonists menaced the position of the British while enduring with heroic fortitude the severities of the winter season.
Tyranny and merciless severities for the ruin of commercial rivals have been no rarities for the last three and a half centuries in any region of the East.
Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
The Duke of Dorset, who succeeded Lord Carteret as Viceroy in 1731, unlike his immediate predecessor, refrained from suggesting additional severities against the Catholics.
The high tone of the enthusiastic Pontiff irritated her deeply, and perhaps the additional severities which she now directed against her Catholic subjects, may be, in part, traced to the effects of the excommunication.
In 1679 the renewal of the king's severities compelled him to retire completely to Pomponne.
The severities are abating," she adds on the 3d of November: "after the hangings there will be no more hanging.
Fouquet was guilty; the bitterness of his enemies and the severities of the king have failed to procure his acquittal from history any more than from his judges.
It will teach him that certain severities are indispensable to war.
No doubt the heart is grieved at reading the excessive severities exercised at that time against the Jews; but must there not have been very grave causes to provoke such excesses?
Excited to revolt by the severitiesof the Inquisition, the Aragonese put to death the chief inquisitor, Pedro Arbues.
The count has made himself very unpopular by his severities towards those who were suspected of favouring the invaders, and it is not thought that he will continue in office.
This cruel neglect recoiled upon his own head: even before the severities of a northern winter set in[41] the hosts of Napoleon were perishing with hunger.
It was his excuse, also, for furtherseverities against Mathews.
He was not content to punish Guernache; he determined to extend his severities to the friends and associates of the unhappy victim.
That Government exercised against us all the severities of the law, and outraged that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world by rejecting the observance of its ameliorations.
She had adopted the severities of our Puritanic system with aggravations.
As it is no reproach to the people that they cannot be the proper judges of the conduct of the government, so neither are they to be censured when they complain of injuries not real, and tremble at the apprehension of severities unintended.
I opposed the imprisonment of the man who just now appeared at the bar of our house, and am still more unwilling to proceed to severities against another, who is criminal only in a subordinate degree.
It is the education of the will that has unfortunately been neglected and that requires, to cite once more the Century definition, the subduing of appetites, even though painful severities should have to be inflicted on the body.
From this it has come to mean, to quote the Century Dictionary, "The act of subduing the passions and appetites by penance, abstinence or painful severities inflicted on the body.
These severities which lasted for several months crushed the life out of the conspiracy in Ulster.
In France and in England the same severities may have been inflicted on the Protestants, but have they been attended with any better success there than here?
But the king might thus exact from him things which he shuddered even to think of, and even the severities which were now, and had been all along, exercised upon the Protestants, were the most revolting to his heart.
And though in them were, both good and evil, still this evil did not develop itself in act, since the Severities remained, though mitigated; some portion of them being necessary to prevent the fragments of the integuments from ascending.
Microprosopos is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, hisSeverities being the Evil.
But there was no remedy: self-preservation obliged the people to those severities which they would not otherwise have been concerned in.
The people, relieved from the severities and confusions of times not long ago, are apt to learn and willing to obey.
An interdict was threatened, James menaced the rich and lax religious orders with secular reformation; settled the Carthusians at Perth, to show an example of holy living; and pursued his severities against many of his nobles.
The great old Houses had been shaken by the severities of James I.
Claverhouse has left on record his aversion to severities against the peasantry; he was for prosecuting such gentry as the Dalrymples.
And the thought of this makes his kindly severities appear more irksome than ever.
Amid the seemingly indiscriminating severities with which Ivan cowed the inhabitants of his principal cities, his mind was engaged in the conduct of a dexterous and well-thought-out foreign policy.
Under these circumstances the severities and loose morals of Elena Glinski might well be overlooked by her subjects.
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