How To Use Inquisition In A Sentence
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In his book he traces the shameful collaboration between government personnel officers and the D.C. vice squads that fueled inquisitions, investigations and systematic removals of gay people from federal agencies.
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The force of this movement makes the inquisition seem like a tea party.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several pages of this book recall the salutary rigour of the Dragonades; and that odious passage, in which a man distinguished for his talents and his private virtues, the Count de Maistre (Soirees de St. Petersbourg tome 2 page 121) justifies the Inquisition of Portugal “which he observes has only caused some drops of guilty blood to flow.”
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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In order to avoid charges of heresy (the Inquisition were always sniffing around him), Nostradamus wrote in a deliberately vague and obscure manner.
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Excommunication threatened the eternal life of heretics and schismatics, while the Holy Inquisition concentrated the minds of defiant Catholics by handing them over to the civil power for a spot of torture or burning.
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This cockamamie human rights inquisition outfit found him guilty of hate.
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Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition
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They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
VIII. English Traits. Character
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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.
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In the assembly of the estates, therefore, held at Toledo, 1480, in spite of all opposition, it was determined to establish a tribunal, under the name of the general inquisition (_general inquisicion suprema_).
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
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Apparently this antpitta is much like Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition; nobody expects it!
10,000 Birds
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This is the modern inquisition, a modern witch trial that dissimulates and fabricates the field of exchange between the protagonists.
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Will she be in for the Spanish Inquisition?
The Sun
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In her present fragile state, an inquisition, nomatterhow well-intentioned, would have shattered her into a million pieces.
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[Footnote 552: Tholuit, or Tholum, in some MSS., but no doubt the same as the Tulum of Letters 9 and 10.] [Footnote 553: 'Ubi et si quid esset quolibet casu, qualibet inquisitione fortassis ambiguum, hujus auctoritatis nostrae judicio constat explosum.'] 'And should any envious person, in contempt of our royal will, dare to raise any question in this matter hereafter, either on behalf of the
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
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If we mined the other inquisition records for further nuggets, we might amass a useful hoard of such information.
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But it's probably not wise to give too hard an inquisition.
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The strappado as described by Smollett, however, is a more severe form of torture even than that practised by the Inquisition, and we can only hope that his description of its brutality is highly coloured.
Travels through France and Italy
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Spain was ruled by an absolute monarch and was dominated by the church, whose Inquisition was still proscribing books and works of art.
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The trial came off in June of '91, and it's one of the regrets of my life that I was not present, if only to see stout Bertie in the witness-box, squirming under the inquisition of saucy jurors who didn't know their place, unlike the judge and counsel who grovelled to him something servile, and did everything but tote him in and out of court in a palankeen.
Watershed
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This matter stands in need both of a higher indagation, and of a longer explication than is pertinent to the present inquisition.
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It is the pre - trail procedure that accomplish the idea of collective - inquisition.
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qualificator" of the Inquisition, who was a bare-footed Carmelite monk.
Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
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Nothing quite says 'medieval' the way the word 'inquisition' does.
News
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The process is more an inquisition than an interview - albeit a good-humoured one.
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His hideous ears must represent the eavesdroping spies of the Inquisition who intimidated and stifled the people.
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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An explosive beginning, lovable and despisable characters, questions of loyalty, moral inquisition all highlight the plot which comes to a rather abrupt end.
Reader reviews of The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith.
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As the lawbook of the Inquisition, the "" Malleus '' was translated into a half dozen languages and on the desk of every judge and magistrate in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Witch Within Me
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So I got a couple of paragraphs written, a passable but over priced lunch was consumed but I didn’t want to linger for the next round of inquisition from the lonely woman.
Not writing
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A bare-knuckle fighter, persecution, poverty, the Spanish Inquisition even.
TV review: Timothy Spall: Back at Sea; Who Do You Think You Are?; Village SOS
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Liberty — their liberty; an earth-born creature, nursed in the black mud of the Bastile moats and dungeons, and necessarily betraying many evidences of its unwholesome bringing-up — but the Inquisition used it in the name of Heaven.
Pictures from Italy
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We chatted about this and that, although on reflection I think it might have been more of an inquisition on my part.
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The word conjured up images of the Spanish Inquisition, of torture, the whip and the rack.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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The protracted tape-recorded inquisition of Markham has only a few diverting moments—for instance, when Kubrick is quizzing the historian about Talleyrand and Napoleon's two-faced police chief, Fouché:
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
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I did not get to the crusades or inquisitions in the alloted time.
October 18th, 2009
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Labat claimed that he once subdued a shipful of Spanish desperadoes who were aiming muskets and sabers at him by flourishing a cross worn by officers of the Inquisition.
A Traveler's Way With Words
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She classified the inquisitions of the two nurses as outrageous.
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In 1246 an inquisition jury attributed the foundation to the Conqueror and identified the recipients of hospitality as the poor, sick and infirm who had no homes but slept in the streets at night.
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With the establishment of church courts from about 1100 onwards, the population increasingly came under a powerful system of public inquisition.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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.
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An astrologer and healer born 500 years ago, he had the ear of royals, businessmen and clergy, even though the church prohibited soothsaying and the Inquisition was running hot.
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No inquiry was made immediately after his death as to the lands of which he died seised; but about eleven months afterwards, a commission was issued to the feodor and deputy-escheator of Oxfordshire, pursuant to which an inquisition was taken on the 11th of April 1633, at
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
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Maraniss comes from Marrano, which is a word that was given to Spanish Jews during the Inquisition, conversos.
First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
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The world will see it as God has always seen it; and when He shall at length make inquisition for blood, and His vengeance kindle over the habitations of cruelty, with a destruction more terrible than that of Sodom and Gomorrah, His righteous dealing will be justified of man, and His name glorified among the nations, and there will be a voice of rejoicing in Earth and in Heaven.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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And Costa is still facing the Spanish inquisition.
The Sun
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It is the pre - trail procedure that accomplish the idea of collective - inquisition.
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Feudalism was abolished along with the Inquisition and the Church's military orders, and two-thirds of monasteries and convents were dissolved.
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Or that he might have been a Jew whose parents converted to escape the Spanish Inquisition.
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Wild incomptence can also work ... or just plain wacky/random things (see: nobody expects the spanish inquisition!) # Wingson 16 Apr 2009 at 7: 57 pm
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Some Suggestions for Humor-Writers
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Dominican and qualificator of the Inquisition in Granada, though not bearing the title of inquisitor, proceeded as though thus empowered, no doubt because of the ordinary jurisdiction possessed by the bishop in matters of faith, and passed the autos of 1555 and 1558.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The popes always upheld with earnestness the episcopal authority, and sought to free the inquisitional tribunals from every kind of arbitrariness and caprice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Whether or not Mr. Levant may possess by ideology or by virtue of his religious or ethnic lineage, a certain bias which would present a kind of imbalance in impartial argument, it cannot be said that Mr. Levant did not possess the freedom of expression to publish the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and the undue expenses he incurred from that earlier inquisition is the real crime.
2008 June 10 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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He attempted to head off my questions with inquisitions about the trip.
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A brief look at the escheator's inquisitions in the wake of the revolt add substance to this assessment.
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At least the medieval inquisition recognised that printing was a threat to the status quo.
The Sun
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The fact is, that Machiavelli, as is usual with those against whom no crime can be proved, was suspected of and charged with atheism; and the first and last most violent opposers of _The Prince_ were both Jesuits, one of whom persuaded the Inquisition "benchè fosse tardo," to prohibit the treatise, and the other qualified the secretary of the Florentine republic as no better than a fool.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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Luis de Leon's comparative freedom were already numbered; for, on the following day (March 26, 1572), Almansa was appointed _alguacil_ of the Valladolid Inquisitionary court, was directed to arrest Luis de
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
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Extend their thinking to its logical conclusion and you end up at the same dread terminus, with inquisitions and witch-burnings.
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This is the letter from Bellarmine, A surprise to the Inquisition. Do not hold or defend.
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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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In the Dark Ages, in Europe, while the Inquisition reigned, progress was stymied.
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And they couldn't understand either why anyone would be trying to tax their brains with such a meaningless inquisition.
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She was stroking Cheetham's thigh proprietorially while he appeared to be conducting an inquisition about the carrier bags.
KICK BACK
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It is a trial, not an inquisition: a trial in which the protagonists are the Crown on the one hand and the accused on the other.
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At Ciudad Juárez, the mercury drops to -23 degrees C; Ahumada records minus 29 degrees C. 12, 1571 On this black day, King Phillip II of Spain establishes the Inquisition in New Spain, to investigate and punish those with "incorrect" beliefs and customs.
Mexico this month - January
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My feet were encased in boots that appeared to have been designed by the people who used to manufacture iron maidens for the Spanish Inquisition.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact he would not be directly investigated by the Inquisition until 1815, when it was nearly toothless - and presumably so was he.
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In donnish inquisitions he would challenge every utterance to expose lazy thinking.
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As has been seen above, the laws of all the states of Europe prescribed concremation as the appropriate penalty for heresy, and even the free commonwealths of Italy recognized the Inquisition as the judge whose sentences were to be blindly executed. "[
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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In this case, this particular woman was innocent in her inquisitions, but there are plenty out there who think, ‘How hard is it to make fabulous food and put it on a plate?’
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They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the "winking Virgin," to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
English Traits (1856)
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it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial
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Pamiers, by Jacques Fournier in 1318, for the extirpation of the remnants of Albigensianism in the Foix region; this document is most important for the history of the Inquisition, representing as it does, and perhaps in this instance only, that particular tribunal in which the monastic inquisitor and the diocesan bishop had almost equal power, as decreed in 1312 by the Council of Vienna.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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In my mind, since the Spanish Inquisition, water-boarding has been torture.
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In other times, and in other societies, it has had recourse to the Inquisition and the gulag.
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In the inquisition of the case, we need implement open procedure principle to make the right to know come true.
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Gratitude at escaping Paula's inquisition and the restorative effects of Mozart's harmonies softened Johnny's usual defences.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Others were subjected to lesser punishments or penanced, but the fate of many of the Inquisition's victims is unknown. [
Bloggers.Pakistan
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Cartes_ principles by conceiving the Globuls of the third Element to find less and less resistance against that side of them which is downwards, or by a way, which I have further explicated in the Inquisition about Colours, to be from an obliquation of the pulse of light, whence the under part is continually promoted, and consequently refracted towards the perpendicular, which cuts the Orbs at right angles.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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The Inquisition had tortured rich and poor alike.
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His mood was slightly more restrained when he eventually emerged from the inquisition.
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In the next few years Campanella found himself in trouble with the Venetian and Roman Inquisitions, abjuring his heresies in Rome in May 1594.
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During the Inquisition, the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack
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To do: bring it up with him as a gentle inquiry, not an inquisition; tell him hearing those words would make you feel good.
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Hast thou been content to come to this inquisition, this examination, this agitation, this cribration, this pursuit of thy conscience; to sift it, to follow it from the sins of thy youth to thy present sins, from the sins of thy bed to the sins of thy board, and from the substance to the circumstance of thy sins?
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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They are the stuff of inquisitions, imperialisms, gulags, and concentration camps.
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The Inquisition had accepted Cardano's private abjuration, extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again.
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The story of Ivan and Dimitri and Alexie stops for God knows how many pages while we listen to a "supposal" about Christ visiting Seville during the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
HogwartsProfessor.com
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And surely I do best allow of a division of that kind, though in more familiar and scholastical terms: namely, that these be the two parts of natural philosophy — the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects; speculative and operative; natural science, and natural prudence.
The Advancement of Learning
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This Wall Street inquisition is just political theater.
Wall Street reform odyssey begins in Senate
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Actually, the Inquisition reserved *all* its attacks for people who were, at least nominally, “other Christians,” since it had no jurisdiction over unbaptized persons.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
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She mixes her tough inquisitions with equally rigorous networking, her Glasgow West End kitchen being one of the city's busiest salons.
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I won't have to worry this week that he'll use my dough to bankroll consiglieri who get bosses off the hook when they're charged with pimping out children, or nabbed on tax code and RICO violation counts; nor fear my contributions will be used to fund cheese-eaters on Apostolic Inquisition teams (technically Apostolic Visitation teams), Vatican snitches who spy on women in convents.
Michele Somerville: Church Collection: Should Conscientious Catholics Stop Giving?
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But the Qing were also Manchu invaders, who forced every Chinese man to wear his hair in a long plait as a sign of subjection and instigated a literary inquisition that codified what could and could not be read in China.
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Ranked against him are the hideous shades of the Inquisition and directly in his path is his unloving, tyrannical father, the King.
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Pope Clement VIII demanded that Bruno be sentenced as a heretic and the Inquisition passed the death sentence on him.
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Perhaps it’s a carryover from the Inquisition when people were burned alive at the stake by the church for daring to question the church.
God’s work? « BuzzMachine
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Goya's reply to the Inquisition's 1815 subpoena and list of questions about the two portraits is not known, and there continues to be uncertainty about the identity of the model.
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Jews in my armories from the Hagee-ilk Inquisition.
The Memory Hole
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Now, there would probably be an inquisition if I got in that late.
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Once more he is preparing to face the ordeal of a public inquisition into his value to England.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cut off from the Jewish world outside Portugal, with education and worship rendered dangerous by the presence of the Inquisition, Marrano faith became diluted and diverged from Jewish tradition.
Well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone
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I don't know why, but somehow it reminds me of a magistrate's inquisition chamber.
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Inquisition, relating his crime, whether carnal or anti-Catholic; and he could join in the _seguadilla_ or in the _guaracha_.
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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Overlooking the Spanish Inquisition, and a bonfire of Indian idols and codices, is a surrealist figure of a grotesque hand-with-eyes, symbolizing an empty head, a brain that doesn't think, an intelligence without control, an invasion.
Did You Know? The centenary of the birth of artist Juan O'Gorman
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the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power
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Nothing quite says medieval the way the word 'inquisition' does.
News
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It was the forecast to each man of what each man might expect in inquisition hall.
Chapter 3
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The difference is that the Spanish Inquisition was willing to torture using methods that leave marks on the body, while the US chose to use methods that do not cut the skin: cold rooms; sleep deprivation through noise and bright lights; forced standing; “stress positions;” smashing people into wooden walls (not into concrete, which breaks bones); confinement in coffin-like boxes; and the water torture. southpaw says:
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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H ere is a review of my book "American Inquisition" by Jeremy Kuzmarov at History News Network.
Is That Legal?: January 2008 Archives
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Also, "If, after nulla bona returned, a testatum be entered upon the roll, quod devastavit, a writ of inquiry shall be directed to the sheriff, and if by inquisition the devastavit be found and returned, there shall be a scire facias quare executio non de propriis bonis, and if upon that the sheriff returns scire feci, the executor or administrator may appear and traverse the inquisition.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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When something is badly organised, awkwardly structured and feebly managed, the inquiries and inquisitions commence.
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Several pages of this book recall the salutary rigour of the Dragonades; and that odious passage, in which a man distinguished for his talents and his private virtues, the Count de Maistre (Soirees de St. Petersbourg tome 2 page 121) justifies the Inquisition of
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
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Without the public good we're all dead -- Right and Left -- as the agonies from the Spanish Inquisition to Auschwitz to the Gulag to Pol Pot to Ruanda to Darfur bear witness.
Dan Agin: Why the Right in America is Dead
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I knew from the way she rolled her eyes that he was performing his ritual inquisition.
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While Suor Marie Celeste's father defended the book he wrote, outlining his ideas on a heliocentric universe before the Inquisition, his daughter's letters tell him to wrap up warm and request money to help keep the nunnery running.
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A rider handed in by the jury indicated a failing of the prison service in its duty of care to the deceased, which rider the coroner refused to append to the inquisition.
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Already there are signs that he is wearying of questions about next year's duel with the Americans but the bad news for him is that the inquisition will intensify with each month.
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Instead of inquisitions, which can often fail to reveal the whole truth about incidents, bullying children should be ‘taught’ better ways of interacting, Robinson says.
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Without in the least intending to, the church created the earliest model of the modern self with its id and unconscious (the secrets created by passion and hidden in shame), the ego of the confessant who is free to choose between self-revelation or concealment, and the superego, whether forgiving father confessor or the fire and steel of the Inquisition.
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pious opinion;" there were invocation of saints and worship of images, prayers for the dead, and holy water; but dispensations and indulgences were uninvented, the Inquisition was unknown, numbers of the clergy were married men, and that organ of tyranny and sin, termed auricular confession, had not yet been set up to grind the consciences and torment the hearts of those who sought to please God according to the light they enjoyed.
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
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Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" was the first to fall, a ludicrous farrago about the search for eternal life that hops from the Spanish Inquisition to the present and into the future.
Movies: The Good, the Bad, The Hilariously Gross
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Alchemy, as we all know, was a deadly offense in the eyes of the Inquisition who, incidentally, no doubt would have also taken great umbrage at Newton’s antitrinitarian heresies.
More Pomo commentary on ID - The Panda's Thumb
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This is literalism well past the point of absurdity - not, let it be said, the poetic absurdity celebrated by the surrealists, but the cynical distortions that inquisitions typically resort to.
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people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain
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The open flames recall the inquisition he didn't live through, and the sweet, dripping, falling-off-the-bone meat reminds us of why we adhere to the Catholic faith and not the religion of his Moorish oppressors: it doesn't ban bacon!
Jilly Gagnon: Extend that St. Patrick's Day Piety!
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I know my average of buying albums has dropped off since they began the Spanish Inquisition concerning file sharing.
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Such was the inquisition, declared by the Spirit of God to be at once the offspring and the _image_ of the popedom.
Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
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[39] The Inquisition was first introduced into Portuguese India in
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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Medina, and consultor and qualificator of the Holy Inquisition.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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In other words, is a cold body a presumable symptom of incubacy, as of old the inability to shed tears served the Inquisition as proof positive to convict witches?
Là-bas
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The only thing outside their walled garden is... (wait for it...) "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!, uh, I mean, JAILBREAK!!!
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But when we called Fontaine's house, his wife Judy answered and told us that the company was bankrupt and that Inquisition was published by Regnery-Gateway.
Rory O'Connor: Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon
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In addition, the set covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish inquisition, Utopia and others.
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The freedom of the press means nothing if diligent journalists can't make occasional mistakes without prompting inquisitions, especially if they're willing to issue retractions as promptly as the networks did.
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And as their coach and captain faced the first questions of a lengthy inquisition, the atmosphere was distinctly funereal.
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She was stroking Cheetham's thigh proprietorially while he appeared to be conducting an inquisition about the carrier bags.
KICK BACK
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That afternoon we attended _en masse_ one of those refined inquisitions commonly known as picnics, and Winthrop lost his pocket-knife.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866
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During the inquisition Jack was asked if he had had other affairs.
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Until 1854 the value of the instrument of a man's death had to be recorded in the coroner's inquisition and, if the matter went to trial, in the murder indictment.
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Ranked against him are the hideous shades of the Inquisition and directly in his path is his unloving, tyrannical father, the King.
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The whole area south of Toulouse, called Languedoc, was the seat of the Cathars whose Gnostic beliefs made them the first target of the inquisition.
Linda E. Savage: Spiritual Sex: True Partnership
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A lone holidaymaker floored by illness asks room service for two bottles of water, only to be subjected to a tragi-comic inquisition as to whether she is secretly harbouring a lover in her single - occupancy room.
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The Spanish Inquisition charged him with sinning against God and man.
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The abashless inquisition of each star" was the scrutiny that obsessed his ways, the impertinence that he suffered most; for he had the magnitude of soul that hungered for placement, and the plague of two masters was on him.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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There are iron thumbscrews, head squeezers, stretching racks, and interrogation chairs with spikes, many of which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Et si de mercatoribus dictaram terrarum numerus non inuenientur sufficiens, ponentur in inquisitione illi qui idonei inuenientur ibidem, & residij sint de alijs bonis hominibus & idoneis de locis in quibus placitum illud erit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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She then subjected me to an inquisition about my romantic life.
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Actually, the Inquisition reserved * all* its attacks for people who were, at least nominally, “other Christians,” since it had no jurisdiction over unbaptized persons.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
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The Spanish Inquisition charged him with sinning against God and man.
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Already there are signs that he is wearying of questions about next year's duel with the Americans but the bad news for the Largs-born player is that the inquisition will intensify with each month.
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His luck then goes from bad to worse as he is brought before the Spanish Inquisition, swindled out of a Mexican fortune, wrecked on a desert island and separated from his true love, Cunegonde.
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The Inquisition's actions would be excessive today because we have the leisure to tolerate dissent with no threat to our survival - not as yet, at any rate.
