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of the person undergoing this form of torture. There were rollers set round with spikes, for bruising the arms and back; there were iron scourges, pincers, and tongs for tearing out the tongue, slitting the nose and ears, and otherwise disfiglaring and mangling the body till it was horrible and horrifying to look upon it. There were other things of which an expert only could tell the name and the use. Had these instruments a tongue, and could the history of this chamber be written, how awful the tale! We shall suppose that all this has been gone through; that the confessor has been stretched on the bed of torture; has been gashed, broken, mangled, and yet, by power given him from above, has not denied his Savior: he has been "tortured not accepting deliverance:" what further punishment has the Holy Office in reserve for those from whom its torments have failed to extort a recantation? These dreadful dungeons furnish us with the means of answering this question. We return to the narrow passage, and go 194
forward a little way. Every few paces there comes a door, originally strong and massy, and garnished with great iron knobs but now old and mouldy, and creaking when opened with a noise painfully loud in the deep stillness. The windings are numerous, but at every turning of the passage a lighted candle is placed, lest peradventure the way should be missed, and the road back to the living world be lost for ever. A few steps are taken downwards, very cautiously, for a lantern can barely show the ground. Here there is a vaulted chamber, entirely dug out of the living rock, except the roof, which is formed of hewn stone. It contains an iron image of the Virgin; and on the opposite wall, suspended by an iron hook, is a lamp, which when lighted shows the goodly proportions of "Our Lady." On the instant of touching a spring the image flings open its arms, which resemble the doors of a cupboard, and which are seen to be stuck full on the inside with poignards, cach about a foot in length. Some of these knives are so placed as to enter the eyes of those whom the image enfolded in its embrace, others are set so as to penetrate the ears and brain, others to pierce the breast, and others again to gore 195
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THE JESUITS James Aitken Wylie 1
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contest. If that power which was se
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was ending the conflict in Spain, b
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him to the hospital of Pamplona, an
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temperament highly excitable, and a
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through by Martin Luther. So far th
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past life [2] But on a more searchi
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heavy sighs no longer resounded thr
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imagination, and a wayward will. An
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Thence, travelling on foot, after l
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commence theology. In a little spac
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It chanced that two young students
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y side. Severe bodily mortification
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little when counted, it was great w
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assist the action of the imaginatio
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spiritual creation; he is to rest,
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were beginning to despond, Loyola w
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4. Duller, p. 12. 5. "Raised to the
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under his mendicant's cloak an ambi
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to all the members of the society e
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Loyola died, and Lainez succeeded h
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absolute. It has been declared that
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acquired. Every year a list of the
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to the royal cabinet. Making choice
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he acquits himself on the trial to
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This further trial gone through, th
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having duly deposited in the excheq
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to see the road to salvation," and
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Rome; to Napoleon, the men whose ac
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delivered by M. Louis Rene de Carad
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Chapter 4 Moral Code of the Jesuits
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inspired; and they were the subject
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The key-note of their ethical code
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The second commandment in the law i
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one. The opinion of a single grave
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arrier, and commit the most horribl
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and thus correct the viciousness of
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and his witness, and even the judge
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Chapter 5 The Jesuit Teaching on Re
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is Protestant, kings, the Jesuit wr
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e made to know, that if they oppres
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excommunicated kings was not meant
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ites and the worship of paganism, w
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very enormity of their turpitude. W
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They encourage cheats, frauds, purl
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as much as shall make his wages com
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Fathers their patrons and defenders
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whence no created agency or influen
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society, lay or clerical, into whic
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Chapter 6 The "Secret Instructions"
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of the" Secret Instruction. "Above
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indolent, luxurious, and rich! Thus
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increase. The intellect refused to
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a war, for example--the issue of wh
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methods for turning to account othe
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authority and power throughout Chri
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Chapter 7 Jesuit Management of Rich
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Should these delicate steps be well
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easy to see in what exchequer the l
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enefactors, who build us any sumptu
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ich and noble houses, and to "infor
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goods, possessions,[9] pious gifts,
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it will be easy to induce him to pa
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communicated; the others, who were
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possessions. (Lat. et Ital. ed., Ro
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Chapter 8 Diffusion of the Jesuits
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deliberations and debates. There wa
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Francisco Strada through the street
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the order, and submitting to episco
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in the university chairs, and crept
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catechisms for the use of the poor.
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Page 179 and 180: triumphs which he could not hope to
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