 Raising the devil may, in the nineteenth century, be laughed at as a harmless absurdity, involving no very heinous degree of criminality. But that is very far from harmless which renders a man criminal in his own eyes. Gilles de Laval conceived himself...  A Summer in Western France - Pagina 297door Thomas Adolphus Trollope - 1841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1841 - 804 pagina’s
...appeared to him, and persuaded him to sign an agreement with hiť satanic majesty in due form. • • • Raising the devil may, in the nineteenth century,...horrible fictions of pagan antiquity. Already more than one hundred victims had perished, and the feeble, ill-organized justice of the period was paralysed... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 408 pagina’s
...appeared to him, and persuaded him to sign an agreement with his satanic majesty in due form. . . . Raising the devil may, in the nineteenth century,...would preserve his own loathsome life and vigour. In 6 d, A WALK TO R 0 THIEMURC II U S. IT was in the summer of the year eighteen hundred and , perhaps... | |
 | 1854 - 402 pagina’s
...of either sex throughout his domains to be seized and put to death within these walls of ChantocS, in order to form a bath of their blood, in the belief...peasantry obliged to furnish this fearful tribute, which realised the most horrible fictions of pagan antiquity. Already more than a hundred victims had perished,... | |
 | 1875 - 562 pagina’s
...handsome* and finest children of either sex throughout his domains to be seized and put to death within the walls of Chantoce, in order to form a bath of their...blood, in the belief that it would preserve his own life and vigour. He was also accused of having murdered six of bis seven wives. In vain rose one universal... | |
 | 1849 - 750 pagina’s
...henceforward monstrous enough to make him hesitate in his course ; and the recorded series of his atrocities a probably unequalled in the annals of human depravity....horrible fictions of pagan antiquity. Already more than one hundred victims had perished, and the feeble, ill-organized justice of the period was paralysed... | |
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