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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
Motley, John Lothrop
Quotations
Bestowing upon others what was not his
property
Better to be governed by magistrates
than mobs
Better is the restlessness of a noble
ambition
Beware of a truce even more than of a
peace
Bigotry which was the prevailing
characteristic of the age
Bishop is a consecrated pirate
Blessed freedom from speech-making
Blessing of God upon the Devil's work
Bold reformer had only a new dogma in
place of the old ones
Bomb-shells were not often used
although known for a century
Breath, time, and paper were profusely
wasted and nothing gained
Brethren, parents, and children, having
wives in common
Bribed the Deity
Bungling diplomatists and credulous
dotards
Burned, strangled, beheaded, or buried
alive (100,000)
Burned alive if they objected to
transubstantiation
Burning with bitter revenge for all the
favours he had received
Burning of Servetus at Geneva
Business of an officer to fight, of a
general to conquer
But the habit of dissimulation was
inveterate
But after all this isn't a war It is a
revolution
But not thoughtlessly indulgent to the
boy
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
Calumny is often a stronger and more
lasting power than disdain
Can never be repaired and never
sufficiently regretted
Canker of a long peace
Care neither for words nor menaces in
any matter
Cargo of imaginary gold dust was
exported from the James River
Casting up the matter "as pinchingly as
possibly might be"
Casual outbursts of eternal friendship
Certain number of powers, almost
exactly equal to each other
Certainly it was worth an eighty years'
war
Changed his positions and contradicted
himself day by day
Character of brave men to act, not to
expect
Charles the Fifth autocrat of half the
world
Chief seafaring nations of the world
were already protestant
Chieftains are dwarfed in the
estimation of followers
Children who had never set foot on the
shore
Christian sympathy and a small
assistance not being sufficient
Chronicle of events must not be
anticipated
Claimed the praise of moderation that
their demands were so few
Cold water of conventional and
commonplace encouragement
College of "peace-makers," who wrangled
more than all
Colonel Ysselstein, "dismissed for a
homicide or two"
Compassing a country's emancipation
through a series of defeats
Conceding it subsequently, after much
contestation
Conceit, and procrastination which
marked the royal character
Conciliation when war of extermination
was intended
Conclusive victory for the allies
seemed as predestined
Conde and Coligny
Condemned first and inquired upon after
Condemning all heretics to death
Conflicting claims of prerogative and
conscience
Conformity of Governments to the
principles of justice
Confused conferences, where neither
party was entirely sincere
Considerable reason, even if there were
but little justice
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