RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1576 by Motley[#25][jm25v10.txt]4825

A common hatred united them, for a time at least

A most fatal success

All claimed the privilege of persecuting

Blessing of God upon the Devil's work

Daily widening schism between Lutherans and Calvinists

Dying at so very inconvenient a moment

Eight thousand human beings were murdered

Everything was conceded, but nothing was secured

Fanatics of the new religion denounced him as a godless man

Glory could be put neither into pocket nor stomach

He would have no Calvinist inquisition set up in its place

He would have no persecution of the opposite creed

In character and general talents he was beneath mediocrity

Indecision did the work of indolence

Insinuate that his orders had been hitherto misunderstood

King set a price upon his head as a rebel

No man could reveal secrets which he did not know

Of high rank but of lamentably low capacity

Pope excommunicated him as a heretic

Preventing wrong, or violence, even towards an enemy

They could not invent or imagine toleration

Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity

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