Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the NetherlandsMotley, John Lothrop
History
Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
Motley, John Lothrop
Quotations
Portion of these revenues savoured much
of black-mail
Possible to do, only because we see
that it has been done
Pot-valiant hero
Power the poison of which it is so
difficult to resist
Power to read and write helped the
clergy to much wealth
Power grudged rather than given to the
deputies
Practised successfully the talent of
silence
Pray here for satiety, (said Cecil)
than ever think of variety
Preferred an open enemy to a
treacherous protector
Premature zeal was prejudicial to the
cause
Presents of considerable sums of money
to the negotiators made
Presumption in entitling themselves
Christian
Preventing wrong, or violence, even
towards an enemy
Priests shall control the state or the
state govern the priests
Princes show what they have in them at
twenty-five or never
Prisoners were immediately hanged
Privileged to beg, because ashamed to
work
Proceeds of his permission to eat meat
on Fridays
Proclaiming the virginity of the
Virgin's mother
Procrastination was always his first
refuge
Progress should be by a spiral movement
Promises which he knew to be binding
only upon the weak
Proposition made by the wolves to the
sheep, in the fable
Protect the common tranquillity by
blood, purse, and life
Provided not one Huguenot be left alive
in France
Public which must have a slain
reputation to devour
Purchased absolution for crime and
smoothed a pathway to heaven
Puritanism in Holland was a very
different thing from England
Put all those to the torture out of
whom anything can be got
Putting the cart before the oxen
Queen is entirely in the hands of Spain
and the priests
Questioning nothing, doubting nothing,
fearing nothing
Quite mistaken: in supposing himself
the Emperor's child
Radical, one who would uproot, is a man
whose trade is dangerous
Rarely able to command, having never
learned to obey
Rashness alternating with hesitation
Rather a wilderness to reign over than
a single heretic
Readiness to strike and bleed at any
moment in her cause
Readiness at any moment to defend
dearly won liberties
Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers
are to kneel
Reasonable to pay our debts rather than
to repudiate them
Rebuked him for his obedience
Rebuked the bigotry which had already
grown
Recall of a foreign minister for
alleged misconduct in office
Reformer who becomes in his turn a
bigot is doubly odious
Reformers were capable of giving a
lesson even to inquisitors
Religion was made the strumpet of
Political Ambition
Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the
line of demarcation
Religion was not to be changed like a
shirt
Religious toleration, which is a phrase
of insult
Religious persecution of Protestants by
Protestants
Repentance, as usual, had come many
hours too late
Repentant males to be executed with the
sword
Repentant females to be buried alive
Repose under one despot guaranteed to
them by two others
Repose in the other world, "Repos
ailleurs"
Republic, which lasted two centuries
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account