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So Janae has told Janelle that Karl has abused her, and then she's nicked off back to Colac while Karl faces the Spanish Inquisition.
Feudalism was abolished along with the Inquisition and the Church's military orders, and two-thirds of monasteries and convents were dissolved.
I was quite literally at the mercy of the Inquisition and was completely unable to tell a lie.
The Spanish Inquisition rides again, coyotes call in the darkness, and, just for a little while, all is right with the world.
Pope Clement VIII demanded that Bruno be sentenced as a heretic and the Inquisition passed the death sentence on him.
Ranked against him are the hideous shades of the Inquisition and directly in his path is his unloving, tyrannical father, the King.
I know my average of buying albums has dropped off since they began the Spanish Inquisition concerning file sharing.
In other times, and in other societies, it has had recourse to the Inquisition and the gulag.
The Inquisition had accepted Cardano's private abjuration, extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again.
In my mind, since the Spanish Inquisition, water-boarding has been torture.
This is a practice of Mishnaic origin and is often mentioned in the records of the Inquisition as evidence of crypro-Judaism.
In many respects, the methods employed against oppositionists under Stalinism were reminiscent of the medieval Inquisition.
The Derridas were Spanish Sephardim who fled to Algeria during the Inquisition.
Spain was ruled by an absolute monarch and was dominated by the church, whose Inquisition was still proscribing books and works of art.
In the Dark Ages, in Europe, while the Inquisition reigned, progress was stymied.
Formerly the office of the Inquisition, the cdf now occupies itself with policing church doctrine.
Like Galileo's trial before the Inquisition, this was not an argument about truth but a struggle for power, a sign of the religious dogmatism of the Counter-Reformation.
It appeared that his line of argument was going to win the day, but at this point the Roman Inquisition demanded that he be sent to Rome to be tried by them.
Inquisition into the private life of an individual or his or her family and questions relating past offences must be avoided.
Fourteen years after his death, the followers of hermetic knowledge received a blow more devastating than anything the Inquisition could deliver to their cause.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Beside, sir, the mob like this Inquisition, and an auto-da-fe is even better sport to them than a bull-fight.
As for Spain, ultramontanism was riveted upon her by the Inquisition, and she is twice dead.
My dear Madam, they are worse than the torturing boots of the Old Spanish Inquisition.
The course of procedure was terribly reminiscent of the methods of the Old Spanish Inquisition.
A system arose exactly in counterpart with that of the Old Spanish Inquisition.
His successor Zapata, in 1627, was a trifle more cautious in a conflict wherein the Inquisition was not concerned.
In these changeful times, the history of the Inquisition is not the least mutable.
Konkani once had a literature of its own, which is said to have been destroyed by the Inquisition at Goa.
This saco bendito became known as the sanbenito or, more commonly, abito and was necessarily inherited by the new Inquisition.
After a trial by the Inquisition, he was sentenced to the gallies for ten years.
The people of La Guardia were then given up to the tender mercies of the Inquisition.
He died 1642, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, the prisoner of the Inquisition.
Far be it from us, certainly, to think of defending the Spanish Inquisition.
Thus in every way the Inquisition dealt with him as leniently as they could.
More important was the nonfeasance of the Inquisition with respect to simony.
There were the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in respect of English sailors.
All writers but one agree with paramo on the subject of the establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal.
One of these illustrates the expiring episcopal jurisdiction over heresy and its supplantation by the Inquisition.
The Inquisition of the Court tried him on the suspicion that he had adopted the antichristian principles of modern philosophy.
During the Spanish Inquisition redheads were burned at the stake as witches and in Hitler's Germany redheads were barred from intermarrying.
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