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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
Motley, John Lothrop
Quotations
Inquisition was not a fit subject for a
compromise
Inquisitors enough; but there were no
light vessels in The Armada
Insane cruelty, both in the cause of
the Wrong and the Right
Insensible to contumely, and incapable
of accepting a rebuff
Insinuate that his orders had been
hitherto misunderstood
Insinuating suspicions when unable to
furnish evidence
Intellectual dandyisms of Bulwer
Intelligence, science, and industry
were accounted degrading
Intense bigotry of conviction
Intentions of a government which did
not know its own intentions
International friendship, the
self-interest of each
Intolerable tendency to puns
Invaluable gift which no human being
can acquire, authority
Invented such Christian formulas as
these (a curse)
Inventing long speeches for historical
characters
Invincible Armada had not only been
vanquished but annihilated
Irresistible force in collision with an
insuperable resistance
It was the true religion, and there was
none other
It is not desirable to disturb much of
that learned dust
It had not yet occurred to him that he
was married
It is n't strategists that are wanted
so much as believers
It is certain that the English hate us
(Sully)
Its humility, seemed sufficiently
ironical
James of England, who admired, envied,
and hated Henry
Jealousy, that potent principle
Jesuit Mariana--justifying the killing
of excommunicated kings
John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.
John Wier, a physician of Grave
John Robinson
John Quincy Adams
Judas Maccabaeus
July 1st, two Augustine monks were
burned at Brussels
Justified themselves in a solemn
consumption of time
Kindly shadow of oblivion
King who thought it furious madness to
resist the enemy
King had issued a general repudiation
of his debts
King set a price upon his head as a
rebel
King of Zion to be pinched to death
with red-hot tongs
King was often to be something much
less or much worse
King's definite and final intentions,
varied from day to day
Labored under the disadvantage of never
having existed
Labour was esteemed dishonourable
Language which is ever living because
it is dead
Languor of fatigue, rather than any
sincere desire for peace
Leading motive with all was supposed to
be religion
Learn to tremble as little at
priestcraft as at swordcraft
Leave not a single man alive in the
city, and to burn every house
Let us fool these poor creatures to
their heart's content
Licences accorded by the crown to carry
slaves to America
Life of nations and which we call the
Past
Like a man holding a wolf by the ears
Little army of Maurice was becoming the
model for Europe
Little grievances would sometimes
inflame more than vast
Local self-government which is the
life-blood of liberty
Logic of the largest battalions
Logic is rarely the quality on which
kings pride themselves
Logical and historical argument of
unmerciful length
Long succession of so many illustrious
obscure
Longer they delay it, the less easy
will they find it
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