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
Things he could tell which are too
odious and dreadful
Thirty thousand masses should be said
for his soul
Thirty-three per cent. interest was
paid (per month)
Thirty Years' War tread on the heels of
the forty years
This Somebody may have been one whom we
should call Nobody
This, then, is the reward of forty
years' service to the State
This obstinate little republic
This wonderful sovereign's littleness
oppresses the imagination
Those who fish in troubled waters only
to fill their own nets
Those who "sought to swim between two
waters"
Those who argue against a foregone
conclusion
Thought that all was too little for him
Thousands of burned heretics had not
made a single convert
Three hundred fighting women
Three hundred and upwards are hanged
annually in London
Three or four hundred petty sovereigns
(of Germany)
Throw the cat against their legs
Thus Hand-weapen, hand-throwing, became
Antwerp
Time and myself are two
Tis pity he is not an Englishman
To think it capable of error, is the
most devilish heresy of all
To stifle for ever the right of free
enquiry
To attack England it was necessary to
take the road of Ireland
To hear the last solemn commonplaces
To prefer poverty to the wealth
attendant upon trade
To shirk labour, infinite numbers
become priests and friars
To doubt the infallibility of Calvin
was as heinous a crime
To negotiate with Government in England
was to bribe
To milk, the cow as long as she would
give milk
To work, ever to work, was the primary
law of his nature
To negotiate was to bribe right and
left, and at every step
To look down upon their inferior and
lost fellow creatures
Toil and sacrifices of those who have
preceded us
Tolerate another religion that his own
may be tolerated
Tolerating religious liberty had never
entered his mind
Toleration--that intolerable term of
insult
Toleration thought the deadliest heresy
of all
Torquemada's administration (of the
inquisition)
Torturing, hanging, embowelling of men,
women, and children
Tranquil insolence
Tranquillity rather of paralysis than
of health
Tranquillity of despotism to the
turbulence of freedom
Triple marriages between the respective
nurseries
Trust her sword, not her enemy's word
Twas pity, he said, that both should be
heretics
Twenty assaults upon fame and had forty
books killed under him
Two witnesses sent him to the stake,
one witness to the rack
Tyrannical spirit of Calvinism
Tyranny, ever young and ever old,
constantly reproducing herself
Uncouple the dogs and let them run
Under the name of religion (so many
crimes)
Understood the art of managing men,
particularly his superiors
Undue anxiety for impartiality
Unduly dejected in adversity
Unequivocal policy of slave
emancipation
Unimaginable outrage as the most
legitimate industry
Universal suffrage was not dreamed of
at that day
Unlearned their faith in bell, book,
and candle
Unproductive consumption being
accounted most sagacious
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