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rate equal the rate equal pg
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: the the rate equal=> the rate equal {pg vi 19} plan of paralled lines=> plan of parallel lines {pg vi 84} live too
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

readily explain the rapid evolutionary process
The tendency of all such abuses to development, the facility with which the reasons alleged in justification could be extended over all the acts of the Inquisition, and the attraction of the arbitrary and irresponsible power thus gained, readily explain the rapid evolutionary process which enveloped, with an impenetrable veil of secrecy, everything connected with the tribunals, from the preliminary inquest and the arrest of the accused, to his discharge or appearance in an auto de fe.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea


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