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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
Motley, John Lothrop
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Disordered, and unknit state needs no
shaking, but propping
Disposed to throat-cutting by the
ministers of the Gospel
Dispute between Luther and Zwingli
concerning the real presence
Disputing the eternal damnation of
young children
Dissenters were as bigoted as the
orthodox
Dissimulation and delay
Distinguished for his courage, his
cruelty, and his corpulence
Divine right of kings
Divine right
Do you want peace or war? I am ready
for either
Doctrine of predestination in its
sternest and strictest sense
Don John of Austria
Don John was at liberty to be King of
England and Scotland
Done nothing so long as aught remained
to do
Drank of the water in which, he had
washed
Draw a profit out of the necessities of
this state
During this, whole war, we have never
seen the like
Dying at so very inconvenient a moment
Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and
therefore persecuting
Eat their own children than to forego
one high mass
Eight thousand human beings were
murdered
Elizabeth, though convicted, could
always confute
Elizabeth (had not) the faintest idea
of religious freedom
Eloquence of the biggest guns
Emperor of Japan addressed him as his
brother monarch
Emulation is not capability
Endure every hardship but hunger
Enemy of all compulsion of the human
conscience
England hated the Netherlands
English Puritans
Englishmen and Hollanders preparing to
cut each other's throats
Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists
Enormous wealth (of the Church) which
engendered the hatred
Enriched generation after generation by
wealthy penitence
Enthusiasm could not supply the place
of experience
Envying those whose sufferings had
already been terminated
Epernon, the true murderer of Henry
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Erasmus encourages the bold friar
Establish not freedom for Calvinism,
but freedom for conscience
Estimating his character and judging
his judges
Even the virtues of James were his
worst enemies
Even to grant it slowly is to deny it
utterly
Even for the rape of God's mother, if
that were possible
Ever met disaster with so cheerful a
smile
Ever-swarming nurseries of mercenary
warriors
Every one sees what you seem, few
perceive what you are
Everybody should mind his own business
Everything else may happen This alone
must happen
Everything was conceded, but nothing
was secured
Evil is coming, the sooner it arrives
the better
Evil has the advantage of rapidly
assuming many shapes
Excited with the appearance of a gem of
true philosophy
Excused by their admirers for their
shortcomings
Excuses to disarm the criticism he had
some reason to fear
Executions of Huss and Jerome of Prague
Exorcising the devil by murdering his
supposed victims
Extraordinary capacity for yielding to
gentle violence
Fable of divine right is invented to
sanction the system
Faction has rarely worn a more
mischievous aspect
Famous fowl in every pot
Fanatics of the new religion denounced
him as a godless man
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