The History of the Jews in Spain: From the Time of Their Settlement in that Country Till the Commencement of the Present Century. Written, and Illustrated with Divers Extremely Scarce Documents

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J. Deighton, 1851 - 276 sider
 

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Side 231 - Catherine, as soon as the flames began to encircle her, screamed out repeatedly for them to withdraw her from thence, although uniformly persisting not to invoke the name of Jesus. On the flames touching Vails, he covered himself, resisted and struggled as long as he was able : being fat, he took fire in his inside in such a manner that before the flames had entwined around -him, his flesh burnt like a coal, and, bursting in the middle, his entrails fell out.
Side 62 - They contain the places of the fixed stars, and all the methods then in use for the computation of the places of the planets : but they are not made from original observations, nor is there any material difference between the astronomy contained in them and that of Ptolemy, except in two points. The length of the year is supposed to be 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds ; which is a more correct value than had been given before, being only 26 seconds over the best modern determinations....
Side 138 - Illustris devotione persuaderi nobis potuit. Nota est nobis sinceritas et pietas vestra atque in Deum religio. Non credimus omni spiritui, si aliorum...
Side 231 - On seeing the flames near them," says the Jesuit, also author of the report, and one of the clergymen who assisted them, «' they began to shew the greatest fury, struggling to free themselves from the ring to which they were bound, which Terongi at length effected, although he could no longer hold himself upright, and he fell side-long on the fire.
Side 138 - Dei amplectaris, cum in re ulla alia magis placere potes. Quod autem dubitare videris nos forsan existimare, cum in perfidos illos qui, christianum nomen ementiti, Christum blasphemant et iudaica insidia crucifigunt, quando ad sanitatem...
Side 133 - Colección de los Autos generales y particulares de fe, celebrados por el tribunal de la Inquisición de Córdoba.
Side 62 - ... eyesight than ours, and the sky must have been very clear. Since they say it is a she-bear, let it be one ; they were very lucky in being able to distinguish it.
Side 75 - These are the mercies which God was pleased to show us, in raising up among us judges and princes to deliver us from our enemies and oppressors ; for after Israel's last captivity (which came of God, and was the third captivity from which God delivered us), as there was no king in Israel to protect us, we dispersed ourselves, some going to this country, some to that, where they are yearning for their country and we for ours.
Side 130 - On the flat plain outside the walls, called El Prado de San Sebastian, was the Quemadero, or the burning-place of the Inquisition, where the last act of the religious tragedy of the auto de fe was left, with the odium, to be performed by the civil power. The spot of fire is marked by the foundations of a square platform on which the faggots were piled.
Side 76 - The day on which it was built was a great and a pleasant one to the Jews, who hearing of it, came from the ends of the earth to see if there were any means of raising some lord over us, who should be to us a tower of strength and have perfection of understanding, in order to rule our commonwealth. Such a thing was not to be found among us who are settled in these parts : but Samuel...

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