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... called for examination before Torquemada's tribunal . Tens of thousands of the new Christians ' who were convicted of having practised the rites of their own religion after out- ward conformity with Christianity , were burnt at the ...
... called for examination before Torquemada's tribunal . Tens of thousands of the new Christians ' who were convicted of having practised the rites of their own religion after out- ward conformity with Christianity , were burnt at the ...
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... called a Christian , and though he might be ready to return blow for blow if he was insulted or ill - used , it is not likely that at either one of our great public foundations he would have met with any tolerable reception . He would ...
... called a Christian , and though he might be ready to return blow for blow if he was insulted or ill - used , it is not likely that at either one of our great public foundations he would have met with any tolerable reception . He would ...
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... called on the Governor , and he was fortunately at home . I flatter myself that he passed through the most extraordinary quarter of an hour of his existence . I gave him no quarter , and at last made our nonchalant Governor roll on the ...
... called on the Governor , and he was fortunately at home . I flatter myself that he passed through the most extraordinary quarter of an hour of his existence . I gave him no quarter , and at last made our nonchalant Governor roll on the ...
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... called on purpose to see it . " Questo vestito Inglese , o di fantasia ? ” asked a little Greek physician . I oracularly replied , " Inglese e fantastico . " Had the Greek physician enquired not about the vestito , but about the wearer ...
... called on purpose to see it . " Questo vestito Inglese , o di fantasia ? ” asked a little Greek physician . I oracularly replied , " Inglese e fantastico . " Had the Greek physician enquired not about the vestito , but about the wearer ...
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... called the tomb of Patroclus , the thought passed through him that as the heroic age had produced its Homer , the Augustan era its Virgil , the Renaissance its Dante , the Reformation its Milton , why should not the revolutionary epoch ...
... called the tomb of Patroclus , the thought passed through him that as the heroic age had produced its Homer , the Augustan era its Virgil , the Renaissance its Dante , the Reformation its Milton , why should not the revolutionary epoch ...
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