Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands — John Shaqi
Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the NetherlandsMotley, John Lothrop
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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
Motley, John Lothrop
Quotations
Small matter which human folly had
dilated into a great one
Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of
any substantial
So much responsibility and so little
power
So often degenerated into tyranny
(Calvinism)
So much in advance of his time as to
favor religious equality
So unconscious of her strength
Soldier of the cross was free upon his
return
Soldiers enough to animate the good and
terrify the bad
Solitary and morose, the necessary
consequence of reckless study
Some rude lessons from that vigorous
little commonwealth
Sometimes successful, even although
founded upon sincerity
Sonnets of Petrarch
Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed
of God
Spain was governed by an established
terrorism
Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen
Sparing and war have no affinity
together
Spendthrift of time, he was an
economist of blood
Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud
of his country
St. Peter's dome rising a little nearer
to the clouds
St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven
years longer
Stake or gallows (for) heretics to
transubstantiation
Stand between hope and fear
State can best defend religion by
letting it alone
States were justified in their almost
unlimited distrust
Steeped to the lips in sloth which
imagined itself to be pride
Storm by which all these treasures were
destroyed (in 7 days)
Strangled his nineteen brothers on his
accession
Strength does a falsehood acquire in
determined and skilful hand
String of homely proverbs worthy of
Sancho Panza
Stroke of a broken table knife
sharpened on a carriage wheel
Studied according to his inclinations
rather than by rule
Style above all other qualities seems
to embalm for posterity
Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the
mask of a friend
Succeeded so well, and had been
requited so ill
Successful in this step, he is ready
for greater ones
Such a crime as this had never been
conceived (bankruptcy)
Such an excuse was as bad as the
accusation
Suicide is confession
Superfluous sarcasm
Suppress the exercise of the Roman
religion
Sure bind, sure find
Sword in hand is the best pen to write
the conditions of peace
Take all their imaginations and
extravagances for truths
Talked impatiently of the value of my
time
Tanchelyn
Taxation upon sin
Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per
cent
Taxes upon income and upon consumption
Tempest of passion and prejudice
Ten thousand two hundred and twenty
individuals were burned
Tension now gave place to exhaustion
That vile and mischievous animal called
the people
That crowned criminal, Philip the
Second
That unholy trinity--Force; Dogma, and
Ignorance
That cynical commerce in human lives
That he tries to lay the fault on us is
pure malice
The tragedy of Don Carlos
The worst were encouraged with their
good success
The history of the Netherlands is
history of liberty
The great ocean was but a Spanish lake
The divine speciality of a few
transitory mortals
The sapling was to become the tree
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