 | John Dowling - 1871 - 962 pages
...heretics, he says — " Some had their throats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and others thrown from the top of a high cliff: all were cruelly but...obstinacy ; for while the father saw his son put to death, and the son his father, they not only exhibited no symptoms of grief, but said joyfully that they would... | |
 | 1873 - 520 pages
...Calabrian heretics : " Some had their throats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and others thrown from the top of a high cliff: all were cruelly but deservedly put to death." But we can write no more ; the pen sickens and halts over the horrid details, though the subject is... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1880 - 980 pages
...Waldenses: "Some had their throats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and others were thrown from the top of a high cliff. All were cruelly but deservedly put to death." The Waldenses, though subjected to such woful persecution. were not, after all, exterminated. They... | |
 | 1845 - 752 pages
...following testimony from an enemy shows that they belong to the noble army of martyrs. According to Casto, a Neapolitan writer, and a Catholic, " Some had their...son put to death, he not only gave no sign of grief, bnt said, joyfully, that they would be angels of God ; so much had the devil, to whom they had given... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 630 pages
...extirpators of heresy : " Some had their throats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and others thrown from the top of a high cliff; all were cruelly but...obstinacy: for while the father saw his son put to death, and the son his father, they not only gave no symptoms of grief, but said joyfully that they would... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1842 - 430 pages
...heretics, he says — " Some had their throats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and others thrown from the top of a high cliff: all were cruelly but...obstinacy; for while the father saw his son put to death, and the * Pantaleon, Rerum in Eccles. Gest. Hist. f. 337, 338. De Porta, torn. ii. p. 30J, 312. son... | |
 | 1828 - 806 pages
...were sawn through the middle, and others thrown from the top of a high cliff; all were cruelly, out deservedly, put to death. It was strange to hear of their obstinacy ; for while the father saw the son put to death, and the son his father, they not only gave no symptoms of grief, but said, joyfully,... | |
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Some had their throats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and others thrown from the top of a high cliff: all were cruelly but deservedly put to death. It was strange to hear of their obstinacy; for while the father saw his son put to death, and... 
