RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1576-77 by Motley[#26][jm26v10.txt]4826

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman

Agreements were valid only until he should repent

All Protestants were beheaded, burned, or buried alive

Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not avail them

Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised religion

Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon

Believed in the blessed advent of peace

Compassing a country's emancipation through a series of defeats

Don John of Austria

Don John was at liberty to be King of England and Scotland

Ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed

Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror

His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank of virtues

Necessary to make a virtue of necessity

One-half to Philip and one-half to the Pope and Venice (slaves)

Quite mistaken: in supposing himself the Emperor's child

Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal

She knew too well how women were treated in that country

Those who fish in troubled waters only to fill their own nets

Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden

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