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A hard bargain when both parties are losers

Able men should be by design and of purpose suppressed

Anarchy which was deemed inseparable from a non-regal form

College of "peace-makers," who wrangled more than all

Condemned first and inquired upon after

Could do a little more than what was possible

Courage and semblance of cheerfulness, with despair in his heart

Demanding peace and bread at any price

Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly in the power to deceive

Dismay of our friends and the gratification of our enemies

Disordered, and unknit state needs no shaking, but propping

Elizabeth, though convicted, could always confute

Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists

Find our destruction in our immoderate desire for peace

German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea of religious freedom

He sat a great while at a time. He had a genius for sitting

He did his work, but he had not his reward

Her teeth black, her bosom white and liberally exposed (Eliz.)

Hibernian mode of expressing himself

His inordinate arrogance

His insolence intolerable

Holland was afraid to give a part, although offering the whole

Honor good patriots, and to support them in venial errors

Humility which was but the cloak to his pride

Intentions of a government which did not know its own intentions

Intolerable tendency to puns

Longer they delay it, the less easy will they find it

Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns

Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you

Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for

Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause

Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into sincerity

Necessity of kingship

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

New Years Day in England, 11th January by the New Style

Nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed in on

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

Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained facts

Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep nor crouch

Not distinguished for their docility

Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren in facts

Others that do nothing, do all, and have all the thanks

Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands of law

Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate

Peace-at-any-price party

Possible to do, only because we see that it has been done

Repentance, as usual, had come many hours too late

Repose in the other world, "Repos ailleurs"

Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance

Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived

Seeking protection for and against the people

Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous

Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen

Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the bad

String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza

The very word toleration was to sound like an insult

The busy devil of petty economy

There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm

They were always to deceive every one, upon every occasion

Thought that all was too little for him

Three hundred and upwards are hanged annually in London

Tis pity he is not an Englishman

To work, ever to work, was the primary law of his nature

Tranquillity rather of paralysis than of health

Twas pity, he said, that both should be heretics

Upper and lower millstones of royal wrath and loyal subserviency

Uttering of my choler doth little ease my grief or help my case

Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for himself

We must all die once

We mustn't tickle ourselves to make ourselves laugh

Weary of place without power

When persons of merit suffer without cause

With something of feline and feminine duplicity

Wrath of bigots on both sides

Write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly

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