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If Lientur had then invested Yumbel it must have fallen into his hands; but he deferred the siege till the following year, when his attempt was rendered unsuccessful by the valiant defence of Ximenes who then had the command.
Cardinal Ximenes, as they sat in council, ordered the old laws for the Indies to be read. The clerk who read them, coming to one that he knew his masters were not obeying, thought to shield them and hinder Las Casas by changing the wording; but, unfortunately for him, Las Casas knew the laws by heart, and he cried out: "The law says no such thing!"
The Spaniards burnt in Mexico vast piles of American picture-writings, an irretrievable loss; and Cardinal Ximenes delivered to the flames, in the squares of Granada, eighty thousand Arabic manuscripts, many of them translations of classical authors.
"These races," said Cardinal Ximenes, "are fit for nothing but labor." Fifth Memoir: Upon the Liberty of the Indians. Llorente, Tom. II. p. 11. Cimarron was Spanish, meaning wild: applied to animals, and subsequently to escaped slaves, who lived by hunting and stealing.
M. de Ximenes begged her to justify as best she could our first mother, who had deceived her husband by giving him the fatal apple to eat. "Eve," she said, "did not deceive her husband, she only cajoled him into eating it in the hope of giving him one more perfection.
He pointed out that it was not for him to hinder the Cardinal of Valencia's renunciation of the purple, since that renunciation was clearly become necessary for the salvation of his soul "Pro salutae animae suae" to which, of course, Ximenes had no answer.
General Barreiro was taken prisoner on the field of battle, throwing away his sword when he saw that escape was impossible, to save himself the mortification of surrendering it to General Bolivar. Colonel Ximenes, his second in command, was also taken, together with most of the officers and more than sixteen hundred men.
At the end of nine months a woman would be delivered a male child, which would be three parts man and one part god." At these words all the guests applauded, M. de Ximenes expressed his admiration of the way the question had been solved, adding, "Naturally, if the son of the woman married, his children would be seven-eighths men and one-eighth gods."
Upon that monarch's death, Adrian, who had meantime been made Bishop of Tortosa and created Cardinal, shared the regency with Cardinal Ximenes. A man of gentle manners and scholastic training, his participation in the regency was hardly more than nominal.
Granada had surrendered under the solemn guarantee of the full enjoyment of civil and religious liberty. At the instigation of Cardinal Ximenes that pledge was broken, and, after a residence of eight centuries, the Mohammedans were driven out of the land.
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