Translation for "pagar diezmos" to english
Pagar diezmos
Translation examples
Desde la muerte del marqués, Condillac se ha negado a pagar diezmos a nuestra Santa Madre la Iglesia y ha hecho escarnio de la autoridad del obispo.
Condillac after the marquis's death had refused to pay tithes to Mother Church and has flouted and insulted the Bishop.
Esta servidumbre era agravada por su obligación de pagar diezmos (aunque ilegalmente) sobre las patatas y los pastos, para sostener una religión que oprimía y detestaba a los suyos.
This serfdom was aggravated by their compulsion to pay tithes (though illegally) on potatoes, turf, and furze, for the support of a religion which oppressed and detested their own.
Primero, porque como ya he señalado, reducirá enormemente el volumen de papistas que nos invade año tras año, por ser los seres más prolíficos de la nación, lo cual les convierte en nuestro enemigo más peligroso, al permanecer en casa intencionadamente con el propósito de entregar el reino al pretendiente y con la esperanza de ganar ventaja ante la ausencia de tantos buenos protestantes, quienes, en vez de quedarse y pagar diezmos al coadjutor episcopal contra su conciencia, han preferido abandonar su país.
For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate.
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