RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1566 by Motley[#10][jm10v10.txt]4810

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Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the senators did nothing at all

Before morning they had sacked thirty churches

Bigotry which was the prevailing characteristic of the age

Enriched generation after generation by wealthy penitence

Fifty thousand persons in the provinces (put to death)

Furious fanaticism

Lutheran princes of Germany, detested the doctrines of Geneva

Monasteries, burned their invaluable libraries

No qualities whatever but birth and audacity to recommend him

Notre Dame at Antwerp

Persons who discussed religious matters were to be put to death

Premature zeal was prejudicial to the cause

Purchased absolution for crime and smoothed a pathway to heaven

Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers are to kneel

Schism which existed in the general Reformed Church

Storm by which all these treasures were destroyed (in 7 days)

The noblest and richest temple of the Netherlands was a wreck

Tyrannical spirit of Calvinism

Would not help to burn fifty or sixty thousand Netherlanders

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