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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
Motley, John Lothrop
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Republics are said to be ungrateful
Repudiation of national debts was never
heard of before
Requires less mention than Philip III
himself
Resolve to maintain the civil authority
over the military
Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system
of ignorance
Respect for differences in religious
opinions
Result was both to abandon the
provinces and to offend Philip
Revocable benefices or feuds
Rich enough to be worth robbing
Righteous to kill their own children
Road to Paris lay through the gates of
Rome
Rose superior to his doom and took
captivity captive
Round game of deception, in which
nobody was deceived
Royal plans should be enforced
adequately or abandoned entirely
Ruinous honors
Rules adopted in regard to pretenders
to crowns
Sacked and drowned ten infant princes
Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully
obeying her orders
Safest citadel against an invader and a
tyrant is distrust
Sages of every generation, read the
future like a printed scroll
Saint Bartholomew's day
Sale of absolutions was the source of
large fortunes to the priests
Same conjury over ignorant baron and
cowardly hind
Scaffold was the sole refuge from the
rack
Scepticism, which delights in reversing
the judgment of centuries
Schism in the Church had become a
public fact
Schism which existed in the general
Reformed Church
Science of reigning was the science of
lying
Scoffing at the ceremonies and
sacraments of the Church
Secret drowning was substituted for
public burning
Secure the prizes of war without the
troubles and dangers
Security is dangerous
Seeking protection for and against the
people
Seem as if born to make the idea of
royalty ridiculous
Seemed bent on self-destruction
Seems but a change of masks, of
costume, of phraseology
Sees the past in the pitiless light of
the present
Self-assertion--the healthful but not
engaging attribute
Self-educated man, as he had been a
self-taught boy
Selling the privilege of eating eggs
upon fast-days
Senectus edam maorbus est
Sent them word by carrier pigeons
Sentiment of Christian self-complacency
Sentimentality that seems highly
apocryphal
Served at their banquets by hosts of
lackeys on their knees
Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven
thousand rebels
Sewers which have ever run beneath
decorous Christendom
Shall Slavery die, or the great
Republic?
Sharpened the punishment for reading
the scriptures in private
She relieth on a hope that will deceive
her
She declined to be his procuress
She knew too well how women were
treated in that country
Shift the mantle of religion from one
shoulder to the other
Shutting the stable-door when the steed
is stolen
Sick soldiers captured on the water
should be hanged
Sick and wounded wretches were burned
over slow fires
Simple truth was highest skill
Sixteen of their best ships had been
sacrificed
Slain four hundred and ten men with his
own hand
Slavery was both voluntary and
compulsory
Slender stock of platitudes
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