HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1584 by Motley[#37][jm37v10.txt]4837

Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly in the power to deceive

Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists

Find our destruction in our immoderate desire for peace

German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea of religious freedom

Intentions of a government which did not know its own intentions

Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns

Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you

Necessity of kingship

Neighbour's blazing roof was likely soon to fire their own

Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence

Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands of law

Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous

Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen

String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza

The very word toleration was to sound like an insult

There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm

Tranquillity rather of paralysis than of health

Write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly

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