 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1808 - 346 pages
...withstand their idolatrous commands.' In the Netherlands alone, on account of religion, 'more than 1OO,OOO of the subjects of Charles V. are said to have suffered by the hand of the executioner ; and this extraordinary number is attested by Grotius, a man of genius and... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1815 - 600 pages
...interec*° with that of the clergy, and enforced, by fire and the sword, the terrors of spiritual censures. In the Netherlands alone, more than one hundred thousand of the subjects of Charles the 5th, are said to have suffered by the hands of the executioner ; and this extraordinary number... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1815 - 598 pages
...interests with that of the clergy, and enforced, by fire and the sword, the terrors of spiritual censures. In the Netherlands alone, more than one hundred thousand of the subjects of Charles the 5th, are said to have suffered by the hands of the executioner ; and this extraordinary number... | |
 | George Croly - 1827 - 344 pages
...of peace and benevolence was soon disgraced by proscriptions, wars, massacres, and the institution of the Holy Office. In the Netherlands alone, more...than one hundred thousand of the subjects of Charles the Vth are said have suffered by the hands of the executioner." defeated with great slaughter. The... | |
 | 844 pages
...enough under a system of faith, to induce bandits, thieves, and rebels to represent themselves as * " In the Netherlands alone, more than one hundred thousand of the subjects of Charles the Fifth fell by the hand of the executioner." — Grotius Annal.de Rebus Relgicis, p. 12. In Cyprus,... | |
 | Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 pages
..." the sword, the terrors of spiritual censures. " In the Netherlands alone more than one hun" dred thousand of the subjects of Charles V. are " said to have suffered by the hand of the execu" tioner; and this extraordinary number is attested " by Grotius, a man of genius... | |
 | Henry William Lovett - 1831 - 272 pages
...of peace and benevolence was soon disgraced by proscriptions, wars, massacres, and the institution of the Holy Office. In the Netherlands alone, more...to have suffered by the hands of the executioner.' — Gibbon, ch. 16. 16. " And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 636 pages
..." It is with a melancholy truth that Mr. Gibbon has so emphatically remarked, ' The church of Rome defended by violence the empire which she had acquired...the subjects of Charles V. are said to have suffered bvthe hands of the executioner.' Decl. Rom. Emp. c. 16. If we add to this number those who were put... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 pages
...and the institutions of the holy office (the inquisition.) In the Netherlands alone, more than OMX HUNDRED THOUSAND of the subjects of Charles V. are...to have suffered by the hands of the executioner" (for the sole crime of kerttical pravity— that is, for thinking differently from that church.) —... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 636 pages
...the most revolting quarter.17 To 17 It is with a melancholy truth that Mr. Gibbon has so emphatically remarked, ' The church of Home defended by violence...their religious secession from the Roman church in Prance, Spain, Italy, Germany, Ireland, and other parts of Europe, these wilful and systematic destructions... | |
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In the Netherlands alone more than one hundred thousand of the subjects of Charles V are said to have suffered by the hand of the executioner; and this extraordinary number is attested by Grotius. 
