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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
Motley, John Lothrop
Quotations
Fate, free will, or absolute
foreknowledge
Father Cotton, who was only too ready
to betray the secrets
Fear of the laugh of the world at its
sincerity
Fed on bear's liver, were nearly
poisoned to death
Felix Mants, the anabaptist, is drowned
at Zurich
Fellow worms had been writhing for half
a century in the dust
Ferocity which even Christians could
not have surpassed
Few, even prelates were very dutiful to
the pope
Fiction of apostolic authority to bind
and loose
Fifty thousand persons in the provinces
(put to death)
Financial opposition to tyranny is apt
to be unanimous
Find our destruction in our immoderate
desire for peace
Fishermen and river raftsmen become
ocean adventurers
Fitted "To warn, to comfort, and
command"
Fitter to obey than to command
Five great rivers hold the Netherland
territory in their coils
Flattery is a sweet and intoxicating
potion
Fled from the land of oppression to the
land of liberty
Fool who useth not wit because he hath
it not
For myself I am unworthy of the honor
(of martyrdom)
For faithful service, evil recompense
For women to lament, for men to
remember
For us, looking back upon the Past,
which was then the Future
For his humanity towards the conquered
garrisons (censured)
Forbidding the wearing of mourning at
all
Forbids all private assemblies for
devotion
Force clerical--the power of clerks
Foremost to shake off the fetters of
superstition
Forget those who have done them good
service
Forgiving spirit on the part of the
malefactor
Fortune's buffets and rewards can take
with equal thanks
Four weeks' holiday--the first in
eleven years
France was mourning Henry and waiting
for Richelieu
French seem madmen, and are wise
Friendly advice still more intolerable
Full of precedents and declamatory
commonplaces
Furious fanaticism
Furious mob set upon the house of Rem
Bischop
Furnished, in addition, with a force of
two thousand prostitutes
Future world as laid down by rival
priesthoods
Gallant and ill-fated Lamoral Egmont
Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a
band of pigmies
German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea
of religious freedom
German finds himself sober--he believes
himself ill
German Highland and the German
Netherland
Gigantic vices are proudly pointed to
as the noblest
Give him advice if he asked it, and
money when he required
Glory could be put neither into pocket
nor stomach
God has given absolute power to no
mortal man
God, whose cause it was, would be
pleased to give good weather
God alone can protect us against those
whom we trust
God of wrath who had decreed the
extermination of all unbeliever
God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of
injustice
God Save the King! It was the last
time
Gold was the only passkey to justice
Gomarites accused the Arminians of
being more lax than Papists
Govern under the appearance of obeying
Great transactions of a reign are
sometimes paltry things
Great science of political equilibrium
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