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. 1836 Excerpt: ...was pursued, taken, convicted, and condemned, and the full rigour of the law adjudged to him. He was therefore quartered, and his limbs distributed to be thus exhibited in the most exposed situation, as an example of terror to such as might hereafter be tempted to raise an impious hand against a priest. Pepe told me ...
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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. 1836 Excerpt: ...was pursued, taken, convicted, and condemned, and the full rigour of the law adjudged to him. He was therefore quartered, and his limbs distributed to be thus exhibited in the most exposed situation, as an example of terror to such as might hereafter be tempted to raise an impious hand against a priest. Pepe told me that he had seen the limb thus exposed, at each successive visit he had made to Valladolid, during the last five months. The friar, who seemed to be highly delighted with the way the robber's crime had been requited to him, remarked, that the limbs must all be taken down and collected for Christian burial before Palm Sunday, as no exhibition of that sort could continue during the Holy Week. The conscientious denial of absolution on the part of the murdered curate, may serve as an answer of no little force to such fanatical revilers of the Catholic church, as denounce confession as a fosterer of crime. In this case, indeed, it was the occasion of crime, but under circumstances suited, on the contrary, to have restrained it. The incident shows, moreover, the general prevalence of a religious feeling of some sort among the most abandoned classes in Spain, at a time when infidelity is so wide-spread and prevailing in almost every other country. Just as we had passed the fork of the road, and this terrible finger-board, pointing to Valladolid, we were overtaken by the Madrid diligence, drawn by no fewer than ten mules, coming on at the rate of a hunt, as is usual with diligences on entering a city, where there are likely to be abundance of spectators to be terrified or astounded by their speed, the zagals whooping, cursing, and belabouring their mules at every jump, and the train setting in motion a cloud of dust, in which we were suffocated. Present...
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