 A few words will suffice to summarize the career of the mediaeval Inquisition. It introduced a system of jurisprudence which infected the criminal law of all the lands subjected to its influence, and rendered the administration of penal justice a cruel...  A History of the Inquisition of Spain - Page 634by Henry Charles Lea - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 764 pages
...most cheer'^t* *'£L* :< sf!i"li>l'vii "^." 69 *yfif *JML'» S^ ing encouragement. Principles have been established which, if allowed to develop themselves...powers might have been used on the side of virtue, it held its hand and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding repression were doubt... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 746 pages
...with accelerated momentum, affords to the sociologist the most cheering encouragement. Principles have been established which, if allowed to develop themselves...powers might have been used on the side of virtue, it held its hand and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding repression were doubt... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 764 pages
...momentum, affords to the sociologist the most cheer650 CONCLUSION. ing encouragement. Principles have been established which, if allowed to develop themselves...only in evil, when its powers might have been used on the-side of virtue, it held its hand and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 756 pages
...with accelerated momentum, affords to the soc\o\og\s,V \\ve. 650 ing encouragement. Principles Lave been established which, if allowed to develop themselves...of arousing insane fury, and of convulsing Europe fix>rn end to end. On the other hand, when atheism became fashionable in high places, its thunders... | |
 | 1888 - 528 pages
...sovereigns to imitate the example, and it prostituted the name of religion to the vilest temporal cuds. It stimulated the morbid sensitiveness to doctrinal...powers might have been used on the side of virtue, it held its baud and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding repression were doubt... | |
 | Clinton Locke - 1896 - 336 pages
...distorted secular justice, and gave the popes a terrible weapon to use in political aggrandizement. It stimulated the morbid sensitiveness to doctrinal aberrations, until the most trifling dissidence roused men to fury. In its long; career of blood and fire, the only credit it can claim is the suppression... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 602 pages
...the mediaeval Inquisition. It introduced a system of jurisprudence which infected the criminal laws of all the lands subjected to its influence, and rendered...powers might have been used on the side of virtue, it held its hand, and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding repression were doubts... | |
 | Paul Maria Baumgarten - 1908 - 212 pages
...Este, p. 170. 2) Volume III., p. 650. A few words will suffice to summarize the career of the medieval Inquisition. It introduced a system of jurisprudence...powers might have been used on the side of virtue, it held its hand and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding repression were doubt... | |
 | Maurice Parmelee - 1918 - 562 pages
...a system of jurisprudence which infected the criminal law of all lands subjected to its inffuence, and rendered the administration of penal justice a...powers might have been used on the side of virtue, it held its hand and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding repression were doubt... | |
 | Charles Turner Gorham - 1918 - 136 pages
...of all the lands subjected to its influence, and rendered the administration of penal justice a grim mockery for centuries. It furnished the Holy See with...powers might have been used on the side of virtue, it held its hand and gave the people to understand that the only sins demanding reparation were doubt... | |
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