ENTIRE 1574-84 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#35][jm35v10.txt]4835

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman

A good lawyer is a bad Christian

A most fatal success

A common hatred united them, for a time at least

Absurd affectation of candor

Agreements were valid only until he should repent

All the majesty which decoration could impart

All Protestants were beheaded, burned, or buried alive

All claimed the privilege of persecuting

Always less apt to complain of irrevocable events

Amuse them with this peace negotiation

Are apt to discharge such obligations--(by) ingratitude

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

As the old woman had told the Emperor Adrian

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

Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon

Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not lack suitors

Believed in the blessed advent of peace

Blessing of God upon the Devil's work

Breath, time, and paper were profusely wasted and nothing gained

Bribed the Deity

Care neither for words nor menaces in any matter

Character of brave men to act, not to expect

Claimed the praise of moderation that their demands were so few

Colonel Ysselstein, "dismissed for a homicide or two"

Compassing a country's emancipation through a series of defeats

Conflicting claims of prerogative and conscience

Confused conferences, where neither party was entirely sincere

Country would bear his loss with fortitude

Customary oaths, to be kept with the customary conscientiousness

Daily widening schism between Lutherans and Calvinists

Deadliest of sins, the liberty of conscience

Difficult for one friend to advise another in three matters

Distinguished for his courage, his cruelty, and his corpulence

Don John of Austria

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

Dying at so very inconvenient a moment

Eight thousand human beings were murdered

Establish not freedom for Calvinism, but freedom for conscience

Everything was conceded, but nothing was secured

Fanatics of the new religion denounced him as a godless man

Ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed

Forgiving spirit on the part of the malefactor

Glory could be put neither into pocket nor stomach

God has given absolute power to no mortal man

Great error of despising their enemy

Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror

He had never enjoyed social converse, except at long intervals

He would have no Calvinist inquisition set up in its place

He would have no persecution of the opposite creed

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

Hope delayed was but a cold and meagre consolation

Human ingenuity to inflict human misery

I regard my country's profit, not my own

Imagined, and did the work of truth

In character and general talents he was beneath mediocrity

Indecision did the work of indolence

Insinuate that his orders had been hitherto misunderstood

It is not desirable to disturb much of that learned dust

Its humility, seemed sufficiently ironical

Judas Maccabaeus

King set a price upon his head as a rebel

Like a man holding a wolf by the ears

Local self-government which is the life-blood of liberty

Logical and historical argument of unmerciful length

Made no breach in royal and Roman infallibility

Mankind were naturally inclined to calumny

Men were loud in reproof, who had been silent

Mistake to stumble a second time over the same stone

Modern statesmanship, even while it practises, condemns

More easily, as he had no intention of keeping the promise

Natural to judge only by the result

Necessary to make a virtue of necessity

Neither wished the convocation, while both affected an eagerness

Neither ambitious nor greedy

No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly

No authority over an army which they did not pay

No man could reveal secrets which he did not know

Not so successful as he was picturesque

Not upon words but upon actions

Not to fall asleep in the shade of a peace negotiation

Nothing was so powerful as religious difference

Of high rank but of lamentably low capacity

On the first day four thousand men and women were slaughtered

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

Our pot had not gone to the fire as often

Peace was desirable, it might be more dangerous than war

Peace, in reality, was war in its worst shape

Perfection of insolence

Plundering the country which they came to protect

Pope excommunicated him as a heretic

Power grudged rather than given to the deputies

Preferred an open enemy to a treacherous protector

Presumption in entitling themselves Christian

Preventing wrong, or violence, even towards an enemy

Proposition made by the wolves to the sheep, in the fable

Protect the common tranquillity by blood, purse, and life

Quite mistaken: in supposing himself the Emperor's child

Rebuked the bigotry which had already grown

Reformer who becomes in his turn a bigot is doubly odious

Reformers were capable of giving a lesson even to inquisitors

Republic, which lasted two centuries

Result was both to abandon the provinces and to offend Philip

Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal

She knew too well how women were treated in that country

Superfluous sarcasm

Suppress the exercise of the Roman religion

Taxes upon income and upon consumption

The disunited provinces

The more conclusive arbitration of gunpowder

There is no man who does not desire to enjoy his own

They could not invent or imagine toleration

Those who "sought to swim between two waters"

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

Throw the cat against their legs

To hear the last solemn commonplaces

Toleration thought the deadliest heresy of all

Unduly dejected in adversity

Unremitted intellectual labor in an honorable cause

Usual phraseology of enthusiasts

Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity

Volatile word was thought preferable to the permanent letter

Was it astonishing that murder was more common than fidelity?

Word-mongers who, could clothe one shivering thought

Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden

Worship God according to the dictates of his conscience

Writing letters full of injured innocence

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