ENTIRE 1600-09 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#84][jm84v10.txt]4884

A penal offence in the republic to talk of peace or of truce

A sovereign remedy for the disease of liberty

A man incapable of fatigue, of perplexity, or of fear

A truce he honestly considered a pitfall of destruction

About equal to that of England at the same period

Abstinence from unproductive consumption

Accepting a new tyrant in place of the one so long ago deposed

Alas! we must always have something to persecute

Alas! the benighted victims of superstition hugged their chains

All the ministers and great functionaries received presents

An unjust God, himself the origin of sin

Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise begins

As if they were free will not make them free

As neat a deception by telling the truth

Because he had been successful (hated)

Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand

Bestowing upon others what was not his property

Beware of a truce even more than of a peace

But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate

Butchery in the name of Christ was suspended

By turns, we all govern and are governed

Calling a peace perpetual can never make it so

Cargo of imaginary gold dust was exported from the James River

Certain number of powers, almost exactly equal to each other

Chieftains are dwarfed in the estimation of followers

Conceit, and procrastination which marked the royal character

Constitute themselves at once universal legatees

Contempt for treaties however solemnly ratified

Converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling

Could handle an argument as well as a sword

Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could imagine

Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence

Defeated garrison ever deserved more respect from friend or foe

Delay often fights better than an army against a foreign invader

Despised those who were grateful

Diplomacy of Spain and Rome--meant simply dissimulation

Do you want peace or war? I am ready for either

Draw a profit out of the necessities of this state

Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and therefore persecuting

Eloquence of the biggest guns

England hated the Netherlands

Even the virtues of James were his worst enemies

Exorcising the devil by murdering his supposed victims

Foremost to shake off the fetters of superstition

Four weeks' holiday--the first in eleven years

Friendly advice still more intolerable

Gigantic vices are proudly pointed to as the noblest

God alone can protect us against those whom we trust

God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of injustice

Gold was the only passkey to justice

Gomarites accused the Arminians of being more lax than Papists

Haereticis non servanda fides

Hangman is not the most appropriate teacher of religion

He often spoke of popular rights with contempt

He who confessed well was absolved well

His own past triumphs seemed now his greatest enemies

Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds)

Humble ignorance as the safest creed

Hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by her decree

Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations

Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation

If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good to do

Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed brains

Indulging them frequently with oracular advice

Insensible to contumely, and incapable of accepting a rebuff

It is certain that the English hate us (Sully)

John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.

John Wier, a physician of Grave

Justified themselves in a solemn consumption of time

Languor of fatigue, rather than any sincere desire for peace

Logic of the largest battalions

Looking down upon her struggle with benevolent indifference

Made peace--and had been at war ever since

Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom

Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign

Men who meant what they said and said what they meant

Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity

Much as the blind or the deaf towards colour or music

Nations tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery

Natural tendency to suspicion of a timid man

Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch

Negotiated as if they were all immortal

Night brings counsel

No retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs, and buildings

No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest

Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names

Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers

One of the most contemptible and mischievous of kings (James I)

Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory

Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)

Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war

Peace founded on the only secure basis, equality of strength

Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce was inevitable

Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable

Prisoners were immediately hanged

Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work

Proclaiming the virginity of the Virgin's mother

Readiness at any moment to defend dearly won liberties

Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants

Repose under one despot guaranteed to them by two others

Requires less mention than Philip III himself

Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns

Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their knees

Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged

So unconscious of her strength

State can best defend religion by letting it alone

Steeped to the lips in sloth which imagined itself to be pride

Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a friend

Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation

Take all their imaginations and extravagances for truths

Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent

The art of ruling the world by doing nothing

The slightest theft was punished with the gallows

The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs of war

The pigmy, as the late queen had been fond of nicknaming him

The expenses of James's household

The People had not been invented

The small children diminished rapidly in numbers

This obstinate little republic

To shirk labour, infinite numbers become priests and friars

To negotiate was to bribe right and left, and at every step

To doubt the infallibility of Calvin was as heinous a crime

To negotiate with Government in England was to bribe

Tolerate another religion that his own may be tolerated

Toleration--that intolerable term of insult

Triple marriages between the respective nurseries

Unlearned their faith in bell, book, and candle

Unproductive consumption being accounted most sagacious

Unwise impatience for peace

Usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side countered

War was the normal and natural condition of mankind

War was the normal condition of Christians

War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of the strongest

We have been talking a little bit of truth to each other

What was to be done in this world and believed as to the next

What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape bankruptcy

When all was gone, they began to eat each other

Word peace in Spanish mouths simply meant the Holy Inquisition

Words are always interpreted to the disadvantage of the weak

World has rolled on to fresher fields of carnage and ruin

You must show your teeth to the Spaniard

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