This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...sources. In several important details, however, Griinwald is much fuller, and especially valuable in the analysis of De Silva's literary works, of which we give an outline in Appendix XIII to this essay. fraught with such danger. Any violation of this resolve would entail condign and severe punishment. His mother ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...sources. In several important details, however, Griinwald is much fuller, and especially valuable in the analysis of De Silva's literary works, of which we give an outline in Appendix XIII to this essay. fraught with such danger. Any violation of this resolve would entail condign and severe punishment. His mother Lourenca did not come off so cheaply, for she was imprisoned three years longer than her son--until October 17,1729. Knowing full well the fate that awaited him should he again expose himself to suspicion, Antonio systematically avoided excessive intercourse with Jews and New Christians, and deliberately sought the esteem and friendship of several monks well known for their zeal and piety. It must be added here that immediately after his release Antonio returned to the university at Coimbra, intending to finish his course of studies. Having once obtained the necessary degree and entered his name among the practicing lawyers, he devised plans by which means he could best avoid persecution in the future, and assumed the air of a devout Christian, thinking to hoodwink the spies that were on his track. Nevertheless he neglected not to worship, in the utmost secrecy and retirement, the God of his fathers, with a fervor which is only increased and sanctified by adversity. Already then he conceived a decided predilection for the theatre, and devoted his leisure to the composition of poems and comedies, destined to exert great influence in the education of the masses. In 1734 he married Leonore de Carvalho, of Covilhao in Guarda, a secret Jewess, who, strange to say, was condemned by the Inquisition in Valladolid (in her eighteenth year) in absente almost simultaneously with her future husband. She, together with several members of her family, had fled to ...
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