During this century of barbaric spoliations and public miseries,the desolation of provinces, the sack of cities, the ruin of works of art, the burning of palaces, all the unnumbered evils which universal war created,the converts to Christianity increased, for Christianity alone held out hope amid despair and ruin.

In the one, it requires me to "go with him twain;" and, in the other, to endure patiently even farther spoliation and, "let him have (my) cloak also."

It will have been seen also that no indemnity had been provided or satisfactorily pledged for the extensive spoliations committed under the violent and retrospective orders of the French Government against the property of our citizens seized within the jurisdiction of France.

External spoliation immediately commenced, and internal disunion quickly followed.

The cynical dishonesties and the brutal spoliations which have come to light in the realm of high finance and big business are the natural fruit of such a manner of life as many of our recent novelists have vividly portrayed.

It is thus the world has seen the partition of Polandthat most iniquitousmost guilty spoliation ever witnessed.

So all the great passions and interests which have moved mankind have found their vent in war,rough barbaric spoliations, love of glory and political aggrandizement, desire to spread religious ideas, love of liberty, greediness for wealth, unity of nations, jealousy of other powers, even the desire to secure general peace and tranquillity.

But while he despoiled the Saxon prelates, he would suffer no royal spoliation of the Norman bishops.

The confiscated metal was shipped for St. Malo, where it was expected to bring a high price, but the vessel foundered in leaving the harbour, to the triumph of all good Catholics, who regarded the disaster as a special manifestation of divine wrath at the sacrilegious spoliation.