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DUTCH REPUBLIC, INTRODUCTION I. by Motley [#1][jm01v10.txt]4801 | 1 |
DUTCH REPUBLIC, INTRODUCTION II. by Motley [#2][jm02v10.txt]4802 | 1 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1555 by Motley [#3][jm03v10.txt]4803 | 2 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1555-59 by Motley [#4][jm04v10.txt]4804 | 2 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1559-60 by Motley [#5][jm05v10.txt]4805 | 3 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1560-61 by Motley [#6][jm06v10.txt]4806 | 3 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1561-62 by Motley [#7][jm07v10.txt]4807 | 3 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1563-64 by Motley [#8][jm08v10.txt]4808 | 3 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1564-65 by Motley [#9][jm09v10.txt]4809 | 4 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1566 by Motley[#10][jm10v10.txt]4810 | 4 |
ENTIRE 1555-66 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#11][jm11v10.txt]4811 | 4 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1566 by Motley[#12][jm12v10.txt]4812 | 7 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1567 by Motley[#13][jm13v10.txt]4813 | 7 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1567 by Motley[#14][jm14v10.txt]4814 | 8 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1568 by Motley[#15][jm15v10.txt]4815 | 8 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1568 by Motley[#16][jm16v10.txt]4816 | 8 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1569-70 by Motley[#17][jm17v10.txt]4817 | 8 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1570-72 by Motley[#18][jm18v10.txt]4818 | 8 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1572 by Motley[#19][jm19v10.txt]4819 | 8 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1572-73 by Motley[#20][jm20v10.txt]4820 | 8 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1573 by Motley[#21][jm21v10.txt]4821 | 9 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1573-74 by Motley[#22][jm22v10.txt]4822 | 9 |
ENTIRE 1566-74 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#23][jm23v10.txt]4823 | 9 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1574-76 by Motley[#24][jm24v10.txt]4824 | 10 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1576 by Motley[#25][jm25v10.txt]4825 | 11 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1576-77 by Motley[#26][jm26v10.txt]4826 | 11 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1577 by Motley[#27][jm27v10.txt]4827 | 11 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1577 by Motley[#28][jm28v10.txt]4828 | 12 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1577-78 by Motley[#29][jm29v10.txt]4829 | 12 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1578 by Motley[#30][jm30v10.txt]4830 | 12 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1578 by Motley[#31][jm31v10.txt]4831 | 12 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1579-80 by Motley[#32][jm32v10.txt]4832 | 12 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1580-82 by Motley[#33][jm33v10.txt]4833 | 12 |
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1582-84 by Motley[#34][jm34v10.txt]4834 | 13 |
ENTIRE 1574-84 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#35][jm35v10.txt]4835 | 13 |
ENTIRE 1555-84 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#36][jm36v10.txt]4836 | 15 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1584 by Motley[#37][jm37v10.txt]4837 | 21 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1584-85 by Motley[#38][jm38v10.txt]4838 | 22 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#39][jm39v10.txt]4839 | 22 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#40][jm40v10.txt]4840 | 22 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#41][jm41v10.txt]4841 | 22 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#42][jm42v10.txt]4842 | 22 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#43][jm43v10.txt]4843 | 23 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585-86 by Motley[#44][jm44v10.txt]4844 | 23 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#45][jm45v10.txt]4845 | 23 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#46][jm46v10.txt]4846 | 23 |
ENTIRE 1584-86 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#47][jm47v10.txt]4847 | 23 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#48][jm48v10.txt]4848 | 25 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#49][jm49v10.txt]4849 | 25 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#50][jm50v10.txt]4850 | 25 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#51][jm51v10.txt]4851 | 25 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#52][jm52v10.txt]4852 | 25 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#53][jm53v10.txt]4853 | 26 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#54][jm54v10.txt]4854 | 26 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#55][jm55v10.txt]4855 | 26 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#56][jm56v10.txt]4856 | 26 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#57][jm57v10.txt]4857 | 26 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#58][jm58v10.txt]4858 | 27 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588-89 by Motley[#59][jm59v10.txt]4859 | 27 |
ENTIRE 1586-89 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#60][jm60v10.txt]4860 | 27 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1590 by Motley[#61][jm61v10.txt]4861 | 28 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1590 by Motley[#62][jm62v10.txt]4862 | 29 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1590-92 by Motley[#63][jm63v10.txt]4863 | 29 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1592 by Motley[#64][jm64v10.txt]4864 | 29 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1592-94 by Motley[#65][jm65v10.txt]4865 | 29 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1594 by Motley[#66][jm66v10.txt]4866 | 30 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1595 by Motley[#67][jm67v10.txt]4867 | 30 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1595-96 by Motley[#68][jm68v10.txt]4868 | 30 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1597-98 by Motley[#69][jm69v10.txt]4869 | 30 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1598 by Motley[#70][jm70v10.txt]4870 | 31 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1598-99 by Motley[#71][jm71v10.txt]4871 | 31 |
ENTIRE 1590-99 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#72][jm72v10.txt]4872 | 31 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1600 by Motley[#73][jm73v10.txt]4873 | 34 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1600-02 by Motley[#74][jm74v10.txt]4874 | 34 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1602-03 by Motley[#75][jm75v10.txt]4875 | 34 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1603-04 by Motley[#76][jm76v10.txt]4876 | 34 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1604-05 by Motley[#77][jm77v10.txt]4877 | 35 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1605-07 by Motley[#78][jm78v10.txt]4878 | 35 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1607 by Motley[#79][jm79v10.txt]4879 | 36 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1607 by Motley[#80][jm80v10.txt]4880 | 36 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1608 by Motley[#81][jm81v10.txt]4881 | 36 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1608 by Motley[#82][jm82v10.txt]4882 | 36 |
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1609 by Motley[#83][jm83v10.txt]4883 | 37 |
ENTIRE 1600-09 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#84][jm84v10.txt]4884 | 37 |
ENTIRE 1584-1609 UNITED NETHERLAND, by Motley[#85][jm85v10.txt]4885 | 40 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1609-10 by Motley[#86][jm86v10.txt]4886 | 48 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1610 by Motley[#87][jm87v10.txt]4887 | 48 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1610 by Motley[#88][jm88v10.txt]4888 | 48 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1610-12 by Motley[#89][jm89v10.txt]4889 | 49 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1609-14 by Motley[#90][jm90v10.txt]4890 | 49 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1613-15 by Motley[#91][jm91v10.txt]4891 | 49 |
ENTIRE 1609-15 JOHN OF BARNEVELD, by Motley[#92][jm92v10.txt]4892 | 49 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1614-17 by Motley[#93][jm93v10.txt]4893 | 51 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1617 by Motley[#94][jm94v10.txt]4894 | 52 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1618 by Motley[#95][jm95v10.txt]4895 | 52 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1618-19 by Motley[#96][jm96v10.txt]4896 | 52 |
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1619-23 by Motley[#97][jm97v10.txt]4897 | 52 |
ENTIRE 1614-23 JOHN OF BARNEVELD, by Motley [#98][jm98v10.txt]4898 | 53 |
ENTIRE 1609-23 JOHN OF BARNEVELD, by Motley [#99][jm99v10.txt]4899 | 54 |
MEMOIR OF JOHN L. MOTLEY, V1, O.W. HOLMES [OWH#11][oh11v10.txt]4725 | 57 |
MEMOIR OF JOHN L. MOTLEY, V2, O.W. HOLMES [OWH#12][oh12v10.txt]4726 | 57 |
MEMOIR OF JOHN L. MOTLEY, V3, O.W. HOLMES [OWH#13][oh13v10.txt]4727 | 58 |
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Page 1
DUTCH REPUBLIC, INTRODUCTION I. by Motley [#1][jm01v10.txt]4801
A country disinherited by nature of its rights
A pleasantry called voluntary contributions or benevolences
Annual harvest of iniquity by which his revenue was
increased
Batavian legion was the imperial body guard
Beating the Netherlanders into Christianity
Bishop is a consecrated pirate
Brethren, parents, and children, having wives in common
For women to lament, for men to remember
Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies
Great science of political equilibrium
Holland, England, and America, are all links of one
chain
Long succession of so many illustrious obscure
Others go to battle, says the historian, these go
to war
Revocable benefices or feuds
Taxation upon sin
The Gaul was singularly unchaste
DUTCH REPUBLIC, INTRODUCTION II. by Motley [#2][jm02v10.txt]4802
Absolution for incest was afforded at thirty-six livres
Achieved the greatness to which they had not been
born
Advancing age diminished his tendency to other carnal
pleasures
All his disciples and converts are to be punished
with death
All reading of the scriptures (forbidden)
Altercation between Luther and Erasmus, upon predestination
An hereditary papacy, a perpetual pope-emperor
Announced his approaching marriage with the Virgin
Mary
As ready as papists, with age, fagot, and excommunication
Attacking the authority of the pope
Bold reformer had only a new dogma in place of the
old ones
Charles the Fifth autocrat of half the world
Condemning all heretics to death
Craft meaning, simply, strength
Criminal whose guilt had been established by the hot
iron
Criminals buying Paradise for money
Crusades made great improvement in the condition of
the serfs
Democratic instincts of the ancient German savages
Denies the utility of prayers for the dead
Difference between liberties and liberty
Dispute between Luther and Zwingli concerning the
real presence
Divine right
Drank of the water in which, he had washed
Enormous wealth (of the Church) which engendered the
hatred
Erasmus encourages the bold friar
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Even for the rape of God’s mother, if that were
possible
Executions of Huss and Jerome of Prague
Fable of divine right is invented to sanction the
system
Felix Mants, the anabaptist, is drowned at Zurich
Few, even prelates were very dutiful to the pope
Fiction of apostolic authority to bind and loose
Fishermen and river raftsmen become ocean adventurers
For myself I am unworthy of the honor (of martyrdom)
Forbids all private assemblies for devotion
Force clerical—the power of clerks
Great Privilege, the Magna Charta of Holland
Guarantees of forgiveness for every imaginable sin
Page 2
Halcyon days of ban, book and candle
Heresy was a plant of early growth in the Netherlands
In Holland, the clergy had neither influence nor seats
Invented such Christian formulas as these (a curse)
July 1st, two Augustine monks were burned at Brussels
King of Zion to be pinched to death with red-hot tongs
Labored under the disadvantage of never having existed
Learn to tremble as little at priestcraft as at swordcraft
Many greedy priests, of lower rank, had turned shop-keepers
No one can testify but a householder
Not of the stuff of which martyrs are made (Erasmus)
Nowhere was the persecution of heretics more relentless
Obstinate, of both sexes, to be burned
One golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude
Pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be
committed
Pardon for murder, if not by poison, was cheaper
Paying their passage through, purgatory
Poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats
Pope and emperor maintain both positions with equal
logic
Power to read and write helped the clergy to much
wealth
Readiness to strike and bleed at any moment in her
cause
Repentant females to be buried alive
Repentant males to be executed with the sword
Sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes
to the priests
Same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind
Scoffing at the ceremonies and sacraments of the Church
Sharpened the punishment for reading the scriptures
in private
Slavery was both voluntary and compulsory
Soldier of the cross was free upon his return
St. Peter’s dome rising a little nearer to the
clouds
Tanchelyn
The bad Duke of Burgundy, Philip surnamed “the
Good,”
The egg had been laid by Erasmus, hatched by Luther
The vivifying becomes afterwards the dissolving principle
Thousands of burned heretics had not made a single
convert
Thus Hand-werpen, hand-throwing, became Antwerp
To prefer poverty to the wealth attendant upon trade
Tranquillity of despotism to the turbulence of freedom
Villagers, or villeins
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1555 by Motley [#3][jm03v10.txt]4803
Burned, strangled, beheaded, or buried alive (100,000)
Despot by birth and inclination (Charles V.)
Endure every hardship but hunger
Gallant and ill-fated Lamoral Egmont
He knew men, especially he knew their weaknesses
His imagination may have assisted his memory in the
task
Little grievances would sometimes inflame more than
vast
Often much tyranny in democracy
Planted the inquisition in the Netherlands
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1555-59 by Motley [#4][jm04v10.txt]4804
Page 3
Consign to the flames all prisoners whatever (Papal
letter)
Courage of despair inflamed the French
Decrees for burning, strangling, and burying alive
I would carry the wood to burn my own son withal
Inventing long speeches for historical characters
Let us fool these poor creatures to their heart’s
content
Petty passion for contemptible details
Promises which he knew to be binding only upon the
weak
Rashness alternating with hesitation
These human victims, chained and burning at the stake
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1559-60 by Motley [#5][jm05v10.txt]4805
Burned alive if they objected to transubstantiation
German finds himself sober—he believes
himself ill
Govern under the appearance of obeying
Informer, in case of conviction, should be entitled
to one half
Man had only natural wrongs (No natural rights)
No calumny was too senseless to be invented
Ruinous honors
Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed of God
That vile and mischievous animal called the people
Understood the art of managing men, particularly his
superiors
Upon one day twenty-eight master cooks were dismissed
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1560-61 by Motley [#6][jm06v10.txt]4806
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper
Licences accorded by the crown to carry slaves to
America
We believe our mothers to have been honest women
When the abbot has dice in his pocket, the convent
will play
Wiser simply to satisfy himself
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1561-62 by Motley [#7][jm07v10.txt]4807
Affecting to discredit them
An inspiring and delightful recreation (auto-da-fe)
Arrested on suspicion, tortured till confession
Inquisition of the Netherlands is much more pitiless
Inquisition was not a fit subject for a compromise
Made to swing to and fro over a slow fire
Orator was, however, delighted with his own performance
Philip, who did not often say a great deal in a few
words
Scaffold was the sole refuge from the rack
Ten thousand two hundred and twenty individuals were
burned
Torquemada’s administration (of the inquisition)
Two witnesses sent him to the stake, one witness to
the rack
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1563-64 by Motley [#8][jm08v10.txt]4808
Attempting to swim in two waters
Dissimulation and delay
Excited with the appearance of a gem of true philosophy
Insinuating suspicions when unable to furnish evidence
Maintaining the attitude of an injured but forgiving
Christian
More accustomed to do well than to speak well
Perpetually dropping small innuendos like pebbles
Procrastination was always his first refuge
They had at last burned one more preacher alive
Page 4
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1564-65 by Motley [#9][jm09v10.txt]4809
All offices were sold to the highest bidder
English Puritans
Habeas corpus
He did his best to be friends with all the world
Look through the cloud of dissimulation
No law but the law of the longest purse
Panegyrists of royal houses in the sixteenth century
Secret drowning was substituted for public burning
Sonnets of Petrarch
St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven years longer
To think it capable of error, is the most devilish
heresy of all
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1566 by Motley[#10][jm10v10.txt]4810
All denounced the image-breaking
Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the senators did nothing
at all
Before morning they had sacked thirty churches
Bigotry which was the prevailing characteristic of
the age
Enriched generation after generation by wealthy penitence
Fifty thousand persons in the provinces (put to death)
Furious fanaticism
Lutheran princes of Germany, detested the doctrines
of Geneva
Monasteries, burned their invaluable libraries
No qualities whatever but birth and audacity to recommend
him
Notre Dame at Antwerp
Persons who discussed religious matters were to be
put to death
Premature zeal was prejudicial to the cause
Purchased absolution for crime and smoothed a pathway
to heaven
Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers are to kneel
Schism which existed in the general Reformed Church
Storm by which all these treasures were destroyed
(in 7 days)
The noblest and richest temple of the Netherlands
was a wreck
Tyrannical spirit of Calvinism
Would not help to burn fifty or sixty thousand Netherlanders
ENTIRE 1555-66 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#11][jm11v10.txt]4811
A pleasantry called voluntary contributions or benevolences
A country disinherited by nature of its rights
Absolution for incest was afforded at thirty-six livres
Achieved the greatness to which they had not been
born
Advancing age diminished his tendency to other carnal
pleasures
Affecting to discredit them
All offices were sold to the highest bidder
All denounced the image-breaking
All his disciples and converts are to be punished
with death
All reading of the scriptures (forbidden)
Altercation between Luther and Erasmus, upon predestination
An hereditary papacy, a perpetual pope-emperor
An inspiring and delightful recreation (auto-da-fe)
Announced his approaching marriage with the Virgin
Mary
Annual harvest of iniquity by which his revenue was
increased
Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the senators did nothing
at all
Arrested on suspicion, tortured till confession
As ready as papists, with age, fagot, and excommunication
Attacking the authority of the pope
Page 5
Attempting to swim in two waters
Batavian legion was the imperial body guard
Beating the Netherlanders into Christianity
Before morning they had sacked thirty churches
Bigotry which was the prevailing characteristic of
the age
Bishop is a consecrated pirate
Bold reformer had only a new dogma in place of the
old ones
Brethren, parents, and children, having wives in common
Burned alive if they objected to transubstantiation
Burned, strangled, beheaded, or buried alive (100,000)
Charles the Fifth autocrat of half the world
Condemning all heretics to death
Consign to the flames all prisoners whatever (Papal
letter)
Courage of despair inflamed the French
Craft meaning, simply, strength
Criminal whose guilt had been established by the hot
iron
Criminals buying Paradise for money
Crusades made great improvement in the condition of
the serfs
Decrees for burning, strangling, and burying alive
Democratic instincts of the ancient German savages
Denies the utility of prayers for the dead
Despot by birth and inclination (Charles V.)
Difference between liberties and liberty
Dispute between Luther and Zwingli concerning the
real presence
Dissimulation and delay
Divine right
Drank of the water in which, he had washed
Endure every hardship but hunger
English Puritans
Enormous wealth (of the Church) which engendered the
hatred
Enriched generation after generation by wealthy penitence
Erasmus encourages the bold friar
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Even for the rape of God’s mother, if that were
possible
Excited with the appearance of a gem of true philosophy
Executions of Huss and Jerome of Prague
Fable of divine right is invented to sanction the
system
Felix Mants, the anabaptist, is drowned at Zurich
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)
Fishermen and river raftsmen become ocean adventurers
For myself I am unworthy of the honor (of martyrdom)
For women to lament, for men to remember
Forbids all private assemblies for devotion
Force clerical—the power of clerks
Furious fanaticism
Gallant and ill-fated Lamoral Egmont
Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies
German finds himself sober—he believes
himself ill
Govern under the appearance of obeying
Great science of political equilibrium
Great Privilege, the Magna Charta of Holland
Guarantees of forgiveness for every imaginable sin
Habeas corpus
Halcyon days of ban, book and candle
He knew men, especially he knew their weaknesses
He did his best to be friends with all the world
Heresy was a plant of early growth in the Netherlands
His imagination may have assisted his memory in the
task
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper
Holland, England, and America, are all links of one
Page 6
chain
I would carry the wood to burn my own son withal
In Holland, the clergy had neither influence nor seats
Informer, in case of conviction, should be entitled
to one half
Inquisition of the Netherlands is much more pitiless
Inquisition was not a fit subject for a compromise
Insinuating suspicions when unable to furnish evidence
Invented such Christian formulas as these (a curse)
Inventing long speeches for historical characters
July 1st, two Augustine monks were burned at Brussels
King of Zion to be pinched to death with red-hot tongs
Labored under the disadvantage of never having existed
Learn to tremble as little at priestcraft as at swordcraft
Let us fool these poor creatures to their heart’s
content
Licences accorded by the crown to carry slaves to
America
Little grievances would sometimes inflame more than
vast
Long succession of so many illustrious obscure
Look through the cloud of dissimulation
Lutheran princes of Germany, detested the doctrines
of Geneva
Made to swing to and fro over a slow fire
Maintaining the attitude of an injured but forgiving
Christian
Man had only natural wrongs (No natural rights)
Many greedy priests, of lower rank, had turned shop-keepers
Monasteries, burned their invaluable libraries
More accustomed to do well than to speak well
No one can testify but a householder
No calumny was too senseless to be invented
No law but the law of the longest purse
No qualities whatever but birth and audacity to recommend
him
Not of the stuff of which martyrs are made (Erasmus)
Notre Dame at Antwerp
Nowhere was the persecution of heretics more relentless
Obstinate, of both sexes, to be burned
Often much tyranny in democracy
One golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude
Orator was, however, delighted with his own performance
Others go to battle, says the historian, these go
to war
Panegyrists of royal houses in the sixteenth century
Pardon for murder, if not by poison, was cheaper
Pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be
committed
Paying their passage through, purgatory
Perpetually dropping small innuendos like pebbles
Persons who discussed religious matters were to be
put to death
Petty passion for contemptible details
Philip, who did not often say a great deal in a few
words
Planted the inquisition in the Netherlands
Poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats
Pope and emperor maintain both positions with equal
logic
Power to read and write helped the clergy to much
wealth
Premature zeal was prejudicial to the cause
Procrastination was always his first refuge
Promises which he knew to be binding only upon the
weak
Purchased absolution for crime and smoothed a pathway
to heaven
Rashness alternating with hesitation
Readiness to strike and bleed at any moment in her
cause
Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers are to kneel
Page 7
Repentant females to be buried alive
Repentant males to be executed with the sword
Revocable benefices or feuds
Ruinous honors
Sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes
to the priests
Same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind
Scaffold was the sole refuge from the rack
Schism which existed in the general Reformed Church
Scoffing at the ceremonies and sacraments of the Church
Secret drowning was substituted for public burning
Sharpened the punishment for reading the scriptures
in private
Slavery was both voluntary and compulsory
Soldier of the cross was free upon his return
Sonnets of Petrarch
Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed of God
St. Peter’s dome rising a little nearer to the
clouds
St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven years longer
Storm by which all these treasures were destroyed
(in 7 days)
Tanchelyn
Taxation upon sin
Ten thousand two hundred and twenty individuals were
burned
That vile and mischievous animal called the people
The noblest and richest temple of the Netherlands
was a wreck
The Gaul was singularly unchaste
The vivifying becomes afterwards the dissolving principle
The bad Duke of Burgundy, Philip surnamed “the
Good,”
The egg had been laid by Erasmus, hatched by Luther
These human victims, chained and burning at the stake
They had at last burned one more preacher alive
Thousands of burned heretics had not made a single
convert
Thus Hand-werpen, hand-throwing, became Antwerp
To think it capable of error, is the most devilish
heresy of all
To prefer poverty to the wealth attendant upon trade
Torquemada’s administration (of the inquisition)
Tranquillity of despotism to the turbulence of freedom
Two witnesses sent him to the stake, one witness to
the rack
Tyrannical spirit of Calvinism
Understood the art of managing men, particularly his
superiors
Upon one day twenty-eight master cooks were dismissed
Villagers, or villeins
We believe our mothers to have been honest women
When the abbot has dice in his pocket, the convent
will play
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange
Wiser simply to satisfy himself
Would not help to burn fifty or sixty thousand Netherlanders
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1566 by Motley[#12][jm12v10.txt]4812
1566, the last year of peace Dissenters were as bigoted
as the orthodox If he had little, he could live upon
little Incur the risk of being charged with forwardness
than neglect Not to let the grass grow under their
feet
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1567 by Motley[#13][jm13v10.txt]4813
God Save the King! It was the last time
Having conjugated his paradigm conscientiously
Indignant that heretics had been suffered to hang
Insane cruelty, both in the cause of the Wrong and
the Right
Sick and wounded wretches were burned over slow fires
Slender stock of platitudes
The time for reasoning had passed
Who loved their possessions better than their creed
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RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1567 by Motley[#14][jm14v10.txt]4814
Conde and Coligny
Furnished, in addition, with a force of two thousand
prostitutes
He came as a conqueror not as a mediator
Hope deferred, suddenly changing to despair
Meantime the second civil war in France had broken
out
Spendthrift of time, he was an economist of blood
The greatest crime, however, was to be rich
Time and myself are two
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1568 by Motley[#15][jm15v10.txt]4815
Deeply criminal in the eyes of all religious parties
He had omitted to execute heretics
Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands
Not for a new doctrine, but for liberty of conscience
Questioning nothing, doubting nothing, fearing nothing
The perpetual reproductions of history
Wealth was an unpardonable sin
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1568 by Motley[#16][jm16v10.txt]4816
Age when toleration was a vice
An age when to think was a crime
Business of an officer to fight, of a general to conquer
Cruelties exercised upon monks and papists
For faithful service, evil recompense
Pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn
Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven thousand rebels
The calf is fat and must be killed
The illness was a convenient one
The tragedy of Don Carlos
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1569-70 by Motley[#17][jm17v10.txt]4817
Constitutional governments, move in the daylight
Consumer would pay the tax, supposing it were ever
paid at all
Financial opposition to tyranny is apt to be unanimous
Great battles often leave the world where they found
it
Great transactions of a reign are sometimes paltry
things
The faithful servant is always a perpetual ass
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1570-72 by Motley[#18][jm18v10.txt]4818
Beggars of the sea, as these privateersmen designated
themselves
Hair and beard unshorn, according to ancient Batavian
custom
Only healthy existence of the French was in a state
of war
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1572 by Motley[#19][jm19v10.txt]4819
Hanged for having eaten meat-soup upon Friday
Provided not one Huguenot be left alive in France
Put all those to the torture out of whom anything
can be got
Saint Bartholomew’s day
Science of reigning was the science of lying
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1572-73 by Motley[#20][jm20v10.txt]4820
Page 9
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience
Envying those whose sufferings had already been terminated
Leave not a single man alive in the city, and to burn
every house
Not strong enough to sustain many more such victories
Oldenbarneveld; afterwards so illustrious
Sent them word by carrier pigeons
Three hundred fighting women
Tyranny, ever young and ever old, constantly reproducing
herself
Wonder equally at human capacity to inflict and to
endure misery
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1573 by Motley[#21][jm21v10.txt]4821
Advised his Majesty to bestow an annual bribe upon
Lord Burleigh
Angle with their dissimulation as with a hook
Luther’s axiom, that thoughts are toll-free
Only kept alive by milk, which he drank from a woman’s
breast
Scepticism, which delights in reversing the judgment
of centuries
So much responsibility and so little power
Sometimes successful, even although founded upon sincerity
We are beginning to be vexed
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1573-74 by Motley[#22][jm22v10.txt]4822
Crescents in their caps: Rather Turkish than
Popish
Ever-swarming nurseries of mercenary warriors
Weep oftener for her children than is the usual lot
of mothers
ENTIRE 1566-74 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#23][jm23v10.txt]4823
1566, the last year of peace
Advised his Majesty to bestow an annual bribe upon
Lord Burleigh
Age when toleration was a vice
An age when to think was a crime
Angle with their dissimulation as with a hook
Beggars of the sea, as these privateersmen designated
themselves
Business of an officer to fight, of a general to conquer
Conde and Coligny
Constitutional governments, move in the daylight
Consumer would pay the tax, supposing it were ever
paid at all
Crescents in their caps: Rather Turkish than
Popish
Cruelties exercised upon monks and papists
Deeply criminal in the eyes of all religious parties
Dissenters were as bigoted as the orthodox
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience
Envying those whose sufferings had already been terminated
Ever-swarming nurseries of mercenary warriors
Financial opposition to tyranny is apt to be unanimous
For faithful service, evil recompense
Furnished, in addition, with a force of two thousand
prostitutes
God Save the King! It was the last time
Great transactions of a reign are sometimes paltry
things
Great battles often leave the world where they found
it
Hair and beard unshorn, according to ancient Batavian
custom
Hanged for having eaten meat-soup upon Friday
Having conjugated his paradigm conscientiously
He had omitted to execute heretics
He came as a conqueror not as a mediator
Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands
Page 10
Hope deferred, suddenly changing to despair
If he had little, he could live upon little
Incur the risk of being charged with forwardness than
neglect
Indignant that heretics had been suffered to hang
Insane cruelty, both in the cause of the Wrong and
the Right
Leave not a single man alive in the city, and to burn
every house
Luther’s axiom, that thoughts are toll-free
Meantime the second civil war in France had broken
out
Not for a new doctrine, but for liberty of conscience
Not to let the grass grow under their feet
Not strong enough to sustain many more such victories
Oldenbarneveld; afterwards so illustrious
Only kept alive by milk, which he drank from a woman’s
breast
Only healthy existence of the French was in a state
of war
Pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn
Provided not one Huguenot be left alive in France
Put all those to the torture out of whom anything
can be got
Questioning nothing, doubting nothing, fearing nothing
Saint Bartholomew’s day
Scepticism, which delights in reversing the judgment
of centuries
Science of reigning was the science of lying
Sent them word by carrier pigeons
Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven thousand rebels
Sick and wounded wretches were burned over slow fires
Slender stock of platitudes
So much responsibility and so little power
Sometimes successful, even although founded upon sincerity
Spendthrift of time, he was an economist of blood
The time for reasoning had passed
The calf is fat and must be killed
The perpetual reproductions of history
The greatest crime, however, was to be rich
The faithful servant is always a perpetual ass
The tragedy of Don Carlos
The illness was a convenient one
Three hundred fighting women
Time and myself are two
Tyranny, ever young and ever old, constantly reproducing
herself
We are beginning to be vexed
Wealth was an unpardonable sin
Weep oftener for her children than is the usual lot
of mothers
Who loved their possessions better than their creed
Wonder equally at human capacity to inflict and to
endure misery
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1574-76 by Motley[#24][jm24v10.txt]4824
As the old woman had told the Emperor Adrian
Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not lack suitors
Breath, time, and paper were profusely wasted and
nothing gained
Care neither for words nor menaces in any matter
Distinguished for his courage, his cruelty, and his
corpulence
He had never enjoyed social converse, except at long
intervals
Human ingenuity to inflict human misery
Peace was desirable, it might be more dangerous than
war
Proposition made by the wolves to the sheep, in the
fable
Rebuked the bigotry which had already grown
Reformers were capable of giving a lesson even to
inquisitors
Result was both to abandon the provinces and to offend
Philip
Suppress the exercise of the Roman religion
The more conclusive arbitration of gunpowder
Page 11
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1576 by Motley[#25][jm25v10.txt]4825
A common hatred united them, for a time at least
A most fatal success
All claimed the privilege of persecuting
Blessing of God upon the Devil’s work
Daily widening schism between Lutherans and Calvinists
Dying at so very inconvenient a moment
Eight thousand human beings were murdered
Everything was conceded, but nothing was secured
Fanatics of the new religion denounced him as a godless
man
Glory could be put neither into pocket nor stomach
He would have no Calvinist inquisition set up in its
place
He would have no persecution of the opposite creed
In character and general talents he was beneath mediocrity
Indecision did the work of indolence
Insinuate that his orders had been hitherto misunderstood
King set a price upon his head as a rebel
No man could reveal secrets which he did not know
Of high rank but of lamentably low capacity
Pope excommunicated him as a heretic
Preventing wrong, or violence, even towards an enemy
They could not invent or imagine toleration
Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1576-77 by Motley[#26][jm26v10.txt]4826
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman
Agreements were valid only until he should repent
All Protestants were beheaded, burned, or buried alive
Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not
avail them
Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised
religion
Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon
Believed in the blessed advent of peace
Compassing a country’s emancipation through
a series of defeats
Don John of Austria
Don John was at liberty to be King of England and
Scotland
Ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed
Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror
His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank
of virtues
Necessary to make a virtue of necessity
One-half to Philip and one-half to the Pope and Venice
(slaves)
Quite mistaken: in supposing himself the Emperor’s
child
Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal
She knew too well how women were treated in that country
Those who fish in troubled waters only to fill their
own nets
Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1577 by Motley[#27][jm27v10.txt]4827
A good lawyer is a bad Christian
Claimed the praise of moderation that their demands
were so few
Confused conferences, where neither party was entirely
sincere
Customary oaths, to be kept with the customary conscientiousness
Deadliest of sins, the liberty of conscience
I regard my country’s profit, not my own
Made no breach in royal and Roman infallibility
Neither wished the convocation, while both affected
an eagerness
Our pot had not gone to the fire as often
Peace, in reality, was war in its worst shape
Those who “sought to swim between two waters”
Volatile word was thought preferable to the permanent
letter
Page 12
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1577 by Motley[#28][jm28v10.txt]4828
Country would bear his loss with fortitude
Its humility, seemed sufficiently ironical
Not upon words but upon actions
Perfection of insolence
Was it astonishing that murder was more common than
fidelity?
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1577-78 by Motley[#29][jm29v10.txt]4829
Absurd affectation of candor
Always less apt to complain of irrevocable events
Imagined, and did the work of truth
Judas Maccabaeus
Neither ambitious nor greedy
Superfluous sarcasm
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1578 by Motley[#30][jm30v10.txt]4830
Difficult for one friend to advise another in three
matters
Establish not freedom for Calvinism, but freedom for
conscience
Taxes upon income and upon consumption
Toleration thought the deadliest heresy of all
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1578 by Motley[#31][jm31v10.txt]4831
Are apt to discharge such obligations—(by)
ingratitude
Like a man holding a wolf by the ears
Local self-government which is the life-blood of liberty
No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly
Not so successful as he was picturesque
Plundering the country which they came to protect
Presumption in entitling themselves Christian
Protect the common tranquillity by blood, purse, and
life
Republic, which lasted two centuries
Throw the cat against their legs
Worship God according to the dictates of his conscience
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1579-80 by Motley[#32][jm32v10.txt]4832
All the majesty which decoration could impart
Amuse them with this peace negotiation
Conflicting claims of prerogative and conscience
It is not desirable to disturb much of that learned
dust
Logical and historical argument of unmerciful length
Mankind were naturally inclined to calumny
Men were loud in reproof, who had been silent
More easily, as he had no intention of keeping the
promise
Not to fall asleep in the shade of a peace negotiation
Nothing was so powerful as religious difference
On the first day four thousand men and women were
slaughtered
Power grudged rather than given to the deputies
The disunited provinces
There is no man who does not desire to enjoy his own
To hear the last solemn commonplaces
Word-mongers who, could clothe one shivering thought
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1580-82 by Motley[#33][jm33v10.txt]4833
Character of brave men to act, not to expect
Colonel Ysselstein, “dismissed for a homicide
or two”
God has given absolute power to no mortal man
Hope delayed was but a cold and meagre consolation
Natural to judge only by the result
No authority over an army which they did not pay
Unduly dejected in adversity
Page 13
RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1582-84 by Motley[#34][jm34v10.txt]4834
Bribed the Deity
Forgiving spirit on the part of the malefactor
Great error of despising their enemy
Mistake to stumble a second time over the same stone
Modern statesmanship, even while it practises, condemns
Preferred an open enemy to a treacherous protector
Reformer who becomes in his turn a bigot is doubly
odious
Unremitted intellectual labor in an honorable cause
Usual phraseology of enthusiasts
Writing letters full of injured innocence
ENTIRE 1574-84 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#35][jm35v10.txt]4835
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman
A good lawyer is a bad Christian
A most fatal success
A common hatred united them, for a time at least
Absurd affectation of candor
Agreements were valid only until he should repent
All the majesty which decoration could impart
All Protestants were beheaded, burned, or buried alive
All claimed the privilege of persecuting
Always less apt to complain of irrevocable events
Amuse them with this peace negotiation
Are apt to discharge such obligations—(by)
ingratitude
Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not
avail them
As the old woman had told the Emperor Adrian
Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised
religion
Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon
Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not lack suitors
Believed in the blessed advent of peace
Blessing of God upon the Devil’s work
Breath, time, and paper were profusely wasted and
nothing gained
Bribed the Deity
Care neither for words nor menaces in any matter
Character of brave men to act, not to expect
Claimed the praise of moderation that their demands
were so few
Colonel Ysselstein, “dismissed for a homicide
or two”
Compassing a country’s emancipation through
a series of defeats
Conflicting claims of prerogative and conscience
Confused conferences, where neither party was entirely
sincere
Country would bear his loss with fortitude
Customary oaths, to be kept with the customary conscientiousness
Daily widening schism between Lutherans and Calvinists
Deadliest of sins, the liberty of conscience
Difficult for one friend to advise another in three
matters
Distinguished for his courage, his cruelty, and his
corpulence
Don John of Austria
Don John was at liberty to be King of England and
Scotland
Dying at so very inconvenient a moment
Eight thousand human beings were murdered
Establish not freedom for Calvinism, but freedom for
conscience
Everything was conceded, but nothing was secured
Fanatics of the new religion denounced him as a godless
man
Ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed
Forgiving spirit on the part of the malefactor
Page 14
Glory could be put neither into pocket nor stomach
God has given absolute power to no mortal man
Great error of despising their enemy
Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror
He had never enjoyed social converse, except at long
intervals
He would have no Calvinist inquisition set up in its
place
He would have no persecution of the opposite creed
His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank
of virtues
Hope delayed was but a cold and meagre consolation
Human ingenuity to inflict human misery
I regard my country’s profit, not my own
Imagined, and did the work of truth
In character and general talents he was beneath mediocrity
Indecision did the work of indolence
Insinuate that his orders had been hitherto misunderstood
It is not desirable to disturb much of that learned
dust
Its humility, seemed sufficiently ironical
Judas Maccabaeus
King set a price upon his head as a rebel
Like a man holding a wolf by the ears
Local self-government which is the life-blood of liberty
Logical and historical argument of unmerciful length
Made no breach in royal and Roman infallibility
Mankind were naturally inclined to calumny
Men were loud in reproof, who had been silent
Mistake to stumble a second time over the same stone
Modern statesmanship, even while it practises, condemns
More easily, as he had no intention of keeping the
promise
Natural to judge only by the result
Necessary to make a virtue of necessity
Neither wished the convocation, while both affected
an eagerness
Neither ambitious nor greedy
No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly
No authority over an army which they did not pay
No man could reveal secrets which he did not know
Not so successful as he was picturesque
Not upon words but upon actions
Not to fall asleep in the shade of a peace negotiation
Nothing was so powerful as religious difference
Of high rank but of lamentably low capacity
On the first day four thousand men and women were
slaughtered
One-half to Philip and one-half to the Pope and Venice
(slaves)
Our pot had not gone to the fire as often
Peace was desirable, it might be more dangerous than
war
Peace, in reality, was war in its worst shape
Perfection of insolence
Plundering the country which they came to protect
Pope excommunicated him as a heretic
Power grudged rather than given to the deputies
Preferred an open enemy to a treacherous protector
Presumption in entitling themselves Christian
Preventing wrong, or violence, even towards an enemy
Proposition made by the wolves to the sheep, in the
fable
Protect the common tranquillity by blood, purse, and
life
Quite mistaken: in supposing himself the Emperor’s
child
Rebuked the bigotry which had already grown
Reformer who becomes in his turn a bigot is doubly
odious
Reformers were capable of giving a lesson even to
Page 15
inquisitors
Republic, which lasted two centuries
Result was both to abandon the provinces and to offend
Philip
Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal
She knew too well how women were treated in that country
Superfluous sarcasm
Suppress the exercise of the Roman religion
Taxes upon income and upon consumption
The disunited provinces
The more conclusive arbitration of gunpowder
There is no man who does not desire to enjoy his own
They could not invent or imagine toleration
Those who “sought to swim between two waters”
Those who fish in troubled waters only to fill their
own nets
Throw the cat against their legs
To hear the last solemn commonplaces
Toleration thought the deadliest heresy of all
Unduly dejected in adversity
Unremitted intellectual labor in an honorable cause
Usual phraseology of enthusiasts
Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity
Volatile word was thought preferable to the permanent
letter
Was it astonishing that murder was more common than
fidelity?
Word-mongers who, could clothe one shivering thought
Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden
Worship God according to the dictates of his conscience
Writing letters full of injured innocence
ENTIRE 1555-84 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, by Motley[#36][jm36v10.txt]4836
1566, the last year of peace
A country disinherited by nature of its rights
A pleasantry called voluntary contributions or benevolences
A good lawyer is a bad Christian
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman
A common hatred united them, for a time at least
A most fatal success
Absolution for incest was afforded at thirty-six livres
Absurd affectation of candor
Achieved the greatness to which they had not been
born
Advancing age diminished his tendency to other carnal
pleasures
Advised his Majesty to bestow an annual bribe upon
Lord Burleigh
Affecting to discredit them
Age when toleration was a vice
Agreements were valid only until he should repent
All offices were sold to the highest bidder
All denounced the image-breaking
All his disciples and converts are to be punished
with death
All the majesty which decoration could impart
All reading of the scriptures (forbidden)
All Protestants were beheaded, burned, or buried alive
All claimed the privilege of persecuting
Altercation between Luther and Erasmus, upon predestination
Always less apt to complain of irrevocable events
Amuse them with this peace negotiation
An hereditary papacy, a perpetual pope-emperor
An inspiring and delightful recreation (auto-da-fe)
An age when to think was a crime
Angle with their dissimulation as with a hook
Announced his approaching marriage with the Virgin
Mary
Annual harvest of iniquity by which his revenue was
increased
Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the senators did nothing
Page 16
at all
Are apt to discharge such obligations—(by)
ingratitude
Arrested on suspicion, tortured till confession
Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not
avail them
As ready as papists, with age, fagot, and excommunication
As the old woman had told the Emperor Adrian
Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised
religion
Attacking the authority of the pope
Attempting to swim in two waters
Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon
Batavian legion was the imperial body guard
Beating the Netherlanders into Christianity
Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not lack suitors
Before morning they had sacked thirty churches
Beggars of the sea, as these privateersmen designated
themselves
Believed in the blessed advent of peace
Bigotry which was the prevailing characteristic of
the age
Bishop is a consecrated pirate
Blessing of God upon the Devil’s work
Bold reformer had only a new dogma in place of the
old ones
Breath, time, and paper were profusely wasted and
nothing gained
Brethren, parents, and children, having wives in common
Bribed the Deity
Burned alive if they objected to transubstantiation
Burned, strangled, beheaded, or buried alive (100,000)
Business of an officer to fight, of a general to conquer
Care neither for words nor menaces in any matter
Character of brave men to act, not to expect
Charles the Fifth autocrat of half the world
Claimed the praise of moderation that their demands
were so few
Colonel Ysselstein, “dismissed for a homicide
or two”
Compassing a country’s emancipation through
a series of defeats
Conde and Coligny
Condemning all heretics to death
Conflicting claims of prerogative and conscience
Confused conferences, where neither party was entirely
sincere
Consign to the flames all prisoners whatever (Papal
letter)
Constitutional governments, move in the daylight
Consumer would pay the tax, supposing it were ever
paid at all
Country would bear his loss with fortitude
Courage of despair inflamed the French
Craft meaning, simply, strength
Crescents in their caps: Rather Turkish than
Popish
Criminal whose guilt had been established by the hot
iron
Criminals buying Paradise for money
Cruelties exercised upon monks and papists
Crusades made great improvement in the condition of
the serfs
Customary oaths, to be kept with the customary conscientiousness
Daily widening schism between Lutherans and Calvinists
Deadliest of sins, the liberty of conscience
Decrees for burning, strangling, and burying alive
Deeply criminal in the eyes of all religious parties
Democratic instincts of the ancient German savages
Denies the utility of prayers for the dead
Despot by birth and inclination (Charles V.)
Difference between liberties and liberty
Difficult for one friend to advise another in three
matters
Dispute between Luther and Zwingli concerning the
Page 17
real presence
Dissenters were as bigoted as the orthodox
Dissimulation and delay
Distinguished for his courage, his cruelty, and his
corpulence
Divine right
Don John of Austria
Don John was at liberty to be King of England and
Scotland
Drank of the water in which, he had washed
Dying at so very inconvenient a moment
Eight thousand human beings were murdered
Endure every hardship but hunger
English Puritans
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
Erasmus encourages the bold friar
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Establish not freedom for Calvinism, but freedom for
conscience
Even for the rape of God’s mother, if that were
possible
Ever-swarming nurseries of mercenary warriors
Everything was conceded, but nothing was secured
Excited with the appearance of a gem of true philosophy
Executions of Huss and Jerome of Prague
Fable of divine right is invented to sanction the
system
Fanatics of the new religion denounced him as a godless
man
Felix Mants, the anabaptist, is drowned at Zurich
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
Fishermen and river raftsmen become ocean adventurers
For myself I am unworthy of the honor (of martyrdom)
For faithful service, evil recompense
For women to lament, for men to remember
Forbids all private assemblies for devotion
Force clerical—the power of clerks
Forgiving spirit on the part of the malefactor
Furious fanaticism
Furnished, in addition, with a force of two thousand
prostitutes
Gallant and ill-fated Lamoral Egmont
Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies
German finds himself sober—he believes
himself ill
Glory could be put neither into pocket nor stomach
God has given absolute power to no mortal man
God Save the King! It was the last time
Govern under the appearance of obeying
Great Privilege, the Magna Charta of Holland
Great transactions of a reign are sometimes paltry
things
Great science of political equilibrium
Great error of despising their enemy
Great battles often leave the world where they found
it
Guarantees of forgiveness for every imaginable sin
Habeas corpus
Hair and beard unshorn, according to ancient Batavian
custom
Halcyon days of ban, book and candle
Hanged for having eaten meat-soup upon Friday
Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror
Having conjugated his paradigm conscientiously
He did his best to be friends with all the world
He came as a conqueror not as a mediator
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He would have no persecution of the opposite creed
He would have no Calvinist inquisition set up in its
place
He had never enjoyed social converse, except at long
intervals
He knew men, especially he knew their weaknesses
He had omitted to execute heretics
Heresy was a plant of early growth in the Netherlands
His imagination may have assisted his memory in the
task
His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank
of virtues
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper
Holland, England, and America, are all links of one
chain
Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands
Hope delayed was but a cold and meagre consolation
Hope deferred, suddenly changing to despair
Human ingenuity to inflict human misery
I would carry the wood to burn my own son withal
I regard my country’s profit, not my own
If he had little, he could live upon little
Imagined, and did the work of truth
In Holland, the clergy had neither influence nor seats
In character and general talents he was beneath mediocrity
Incur the risk of being charged with forwardness than
neglect
Indecision did the work of indolence
Indignant that heretics had been suffered to hang
Informer, in case of conviction, should be entitled
to one half
Inquisition was not a fit subject for a compromise
Inquisition of the Netherlands is much more pitiless
Insane cruelty, both in the cause of the Wrong and
the Right
Insinuate that his orders had been hitherto misunderstood
Insinuating suspicions when unable to furnish evidence
Invented such Christian formulas as these (a curse)
Inventing long speeches for historical characters
It is not desirable to disturb much of that learned
dust
Its humility, seemed sufficiently ironical
Judas Maccabaeus
July 1st, two Augustine monks were burned at Brussels
King set a price upon his head as a rebel
King of Zion to be pinched to death with red-hot tongs
Labored under the disadvantage of never having existed
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
Like a man holding a wolf by the ears
Little grievances would sometimes inflame more than
vast
Local self-government which is the life-blood of liberty
Logical and historical argument of unmerciful length
Long succession of so many illustrious obscure
Look through the cloud of dissimulation
Luther’s axiom, that thoughts are toll-free
Lutheran princes of Germany, detested the doctrines
of Geneva
Made no breach in royal and Roman infallibility
Made to swing to and fro over a slow fire
Maintaining the attitude of an injured but forgiving
Christian
Man had only natural wrongs (No natural rights)
Mankind were naturally inclined to calumny
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Many greedy priests, of lower rank, had turned shop-keepers
Meantime the second civil war in France had broken
out
Men were loud in reproof, who had been silent
Mistake to stumble a second time over the same stone
Modern statesmanship, even while it practises, condemns
Monasteries, burned their invaluable libraries
More accustomed to do well than to speak well
More easily, as he had no intention of keeping the
promise
Natural to judge only by the result
Necessary to make a virtue of necessity
Neither wished the convocation, while both affected
an eagerness
Neither ambitious nor greedy
No qualities whatever but birth and audacity to recommend
him
No man could reveal secrets which he did not know
No law but the law of the longest purse
No calumny was too senseless to be invented
No one can testify but a householder
No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly
No authority over an army which they did not pay
Not strong enough to sustain many more such victories
Not to fall asleep in the shade of a peace negotiation
Not for a new doctrine, but for liberty of conscience
Not to let the grass grow under their feet
Not so successful as he was picturesque
Not upon words but upon actions
Not of the stuff of which martyrs are made (Erasmus)
Nothing was so powerful as religious difference
Notre Dame at Antwerp
Nowhere was the persecution of heretics more relentless
Obstinate, of both sexes, to be burned
Of high rank but of lamentably low capacity
Often much tyranny in democracy
Oldenbarneveld; afterwards so illustrious
On the first day four thousand men and women were
slaughtered
One-half to Philip and one-half to the Pope and Venice
(slaves)
One golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude
Only kept alive by milk, which he drank from a woman’s
breast
Only healthy existence of the French was in a state
of war
Orator was, however, delighted with his own performance
Others go to battle, says the historian, these go
to war
Our pot had not gone to the fire as often
Panegyrists of royal houses in the sixteenth century
Pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be
committed
Pardon for murder, if not by poison, was cheaper
Pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn
Paying their passage through, purgatory
Peace, in reality, was war in its worst shape
Peace was desirable, it might be more dangerous than
war
Perfection of insolence
Perpetually dropping small innuendos like pebbles
Persons who discussed religious matters were to be
put to death
Petty passion for contemptible details
Philip, who did not often say a great deal in a few
words
Planted the inquisition in the Netherlands
Plundering the country which they came to protect
Poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats
Pope and emperor maintain both positions with equal
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logic
Pope excommunicated him as a heretic
Power to read and write helped the clergy to much
wealth
Power grudged rather than given to the deputies
Preferred an open enemy to a treacherous protector
Premature zeal was prejudicial to the cause
Presumption in entitling themselves Christian
Preventing wrong, or violence, even towards an enemy
Procrastination was always his first refuge
Promises which he knew to be binding only upon the
weak
Proposition made by the wolves to the sheep, in the
fable
Protect the common tranquillity by blood, purse, and
life
Provided not one Huguenot be left alive in France
Purchased absolution for crime and smoothed a pathway
to heaven
Put all those to the torture out of whom anything
can be got
Questioning nothing, doubting nothing, fearing nothing
Quite mistaken: in supposing himself the Emperor’s
child
Rashness alternating with hesitation
Readiness to strike and bleed at any moment in her
cause
Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers are to kneel
Rebuked the bigotry which had already grown
Reformer who becomes in his turn a bigot is doubly
odious
Reformers were capable of giving a lesson even to
inquisitors
Repentant females to be buried alive
Repentant males to be executed with the sword
Republic, which lasted two centuries
Result was both to abandon the provinces and to offend
Philip
Revocable benefices or feuds
Ruinous honors
Saint Bartholomew’s day
Sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes
to the priests
Same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind
Scaffold was the sole refuge from the rack
Scepticism, which delights in reversing the judgment
of centuries
Schism which existed in the general Reformed Church
Science of reigning was the science of lying
Scoffing at the ceremonies and sacraments of the Church
Secret drowning was substituted for public burning
Sent them word by carrier pigeons
Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal
Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven thousand rebels
Sharpened the punishment for reading the scriptures
in private
She knew too well how women were treated in that country
Sick and wounded wretches were burned over slow fires
Slavery was both voluntary and compulsory
Slender stock of platitudes
So much responsibility and so little power
Soldier of the cross was free upon his return
Sometimes successful, even although founded upon sincerity
Sonnets of Petrarch
Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed of God
Spendthrift of time, he was an economist of blood
St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven years longer
St. Peter’s dome rising a little nearer to the
clouds
Storm by which all these treasures were destroyed
(in 7 days)
Superfluous sarcasm
Suppress the exercise of the Roman religion
Tanchelyn
Taxation upon sin
Taxes upon income and upon consumption
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Ten thousand two hundred and twenty individuals were
burned
That vile and mischievous animal called the people
The noblest and richest temple of the Netherlands
was a wreck
The Gaul was singularly unchaste
The vivifying becomes afterwards the dissolving principle
The bad Duke of Burgundy, Philip surnamed “the
Good,”
The greatest crime, however, was to be rich
The more conclusive arbitration of gunpowder
The disunited provinces
The faithful servant is always a perpetual ass
The time for reasoning had passed
The perpetual reproductions of history
The egg had been laid by Erasmus, hatched by Luther
The illness was a convenient one
The calf is fat and must be killed
The tragedy of Don Carlos
There is no man who does not desire to enjoy his own
These human victims, chained and burning at the stake
They could not invent or imagine toleration
They had at last burned one more preacher alive
Those who “sought to swim between two waters”
Those who fish in troubled waters only to fill their
own nets
Thousands of burned heretics had not made a single
convert
Three hundred fighting women
Throw the cat against their legs
Thus Hand-werpen, hand-throwing, became Antwerp
Time and myself are two
To think it capable of error, is the most devilish
heresy of all
To hear the last solemn commonplaces
To prefer poverty to the wealth attendant upon trade
Toleration thought the deadliest heresy of all
Torquemada’s administration (of the inquisition)
Tranquillity of despotism to the turbulence of freedom
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
Understood the art of managing men, particularly his
superiors
Unduly dejected in adversity
Unremitted intellectual labor in an honorable cause
Upon one day twenty-eight master cooks were dismissed
Usual phraseology of enthusiasts
Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity
Villagers, or villeins
Volatile word was thought preferable to the permanent
letter
Was it astonishing that murder was more common than
fidelity?
We believe our mothers to have been honest women
We are beginning to be vexed
Wealth was an unpardonable sin
Weep oftener for her children than is the usual lot
of mothers
When the abbot has dice in his pocket, the convent
will play
Who loved their possessions better than their creed
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange
Wiser simply to satisfy himself
Wonder equally at human capacity to inflict and to
endure misery
Word-mongers who, could clothe one shivering thought
Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden
Worship God according to the dictates of his conscience
Would not help to burn fifty or sixty thousand Netherlanders
Writing letters full of injured innocence
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1584 by Motley[#37][jm37v10.txt]4837
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Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly in the power
to deceive
Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists
Find our destruction in our immoderate desire for
peace
German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea of religious
freedom
Intentions of a government which did not know its
own intentions
Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns
Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you
Necessity of kingship
Neighbour’s blazing roof was likely soon to
fire their own
Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence
Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands
of law
Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous
Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen
String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza
The very word toleration was to sound like an insult
There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm
Tranquillity rather of paralysis than of health
Write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1584-85 by Motley[#38][jm38v10.txt]4838
Hibernian mode of expressing himself
His inordinate arrogance
His insolence intolerable
Humility which was but the cloak to his pride
Longer they delay it, the less easy will they find
it
Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren in facts
Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived
’Twas pity, he said, that both should be heretics
Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for
himself
With something of feline and feminine duplicity
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#39][jm39v10.txt]4839
College of “peace-makers,” who wrangled
more than all
Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause
Not distinguished for their docility
Repentance, as usual, had come many hours too late
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#40][jm40v10.txt]4840
Courage and semblance of cheerfulness, with despair
in his heart
Demanding peace and bread at any price
Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained
facts
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#41][jm41v10.txt]4841
Honor good patriots, and to support them in venial
errors
Possible to do, only because we see that it has been
done
Repose in the other world, “Repos ailleurs”
Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the
bad
To work, ever to work, was the primary law of his
nature
When persons of merit suffer without cause
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#42][jm42v10.txt]4842
Page 23
Anarchy which was deemed inseparable from a non-regal
form
Dismay of our friends and the gratification of our
enemies
Her teeth black, her bosom white and liberally exposed
(Eliz.)
Holland was afraid to give a part, although offering
the whole
Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance
Say “’tis pity he is not an Englishman
Seeking protection for and against the people
Three hundred and upwards are hanged annually in London
We must all die once
Wrath of bigots on both sides
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585 by Motley[#43][jm43v10.txt]4843
Able men should be by design and of purpose suppressed
He did his work, but he had not his reward
Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for
Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep
nor crouch
Others that do nothing, do all, and have all the thanks
Peace-at-any-price party
The busy devil of petty economy
Thought that all was too little for him
Weary of place without power
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1585-86 by Motley[#44][jm44v10.txt]4844
Intolerable tendency to puns
New Years Day in England, 11th January by the New
Style
Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous
estate
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#45][jm45v10.txt]4845
A hard bargain when both parties are losers
Condemned first and inquired upon after
Disordered, and unknit state needs no shaking, but
propping
Upper and lower millstones of royal wrath and loyal
subserviency
Uttering of my choler doth little ease my grief or
help my case
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#46][jm46v10.txt]4846
Could do a little more than what was possible
Elizabeth, though convicted, could always confute
He sat a great while at a time. He had a genius
for sitting
Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into
sincerity
Nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed
in on
They were always to deceive every one, upon every
occasion
We mustn’t tickle ourselves to make ourselves
laugh
ENTIRE 1584-86 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#47][jm47v10.txt]4847
A hard bargain when both parties are losers
Able men should be by design and of purpose suppressed
Anarchy which was deemed inseparable from a non-regal
form
College of “peace-makers,” who wrangled
more than all
Condemned first and inquired upon after
Could do a little more than what was possible
Courage and semblance of cheerfulness, with despair
in his heart
Demanding peace and bread at any price
Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly in the power
to deceive
Page 24
Dismay of our friends and the gratification of our
enemies
Disordered, and unknit state needs no shaking, but
propping
Elizabeth, though convicted, could always confute
Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists
Find our destruction in our immoderate desire for
peace
German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea of religious
freedom
He sat a great while at a time. He had a genius
for sitting
He did his work, but he had not his reward
Her teeth black, her bosom white and liberally exposed
(Eliz.)
Hibernian mode of expressing himself
His inordinate arrogance
His insolence intolerable
Holland was afraid to give a part, although offering
the whole
Honor good patriots, and to support them in venial
errors
Humility which was but the cloak to his pride
Intentions of a government which did not know its
own intentions
Intolerable tendency to puns
Longer they delay it, the less easy will they find
it
Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns
Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you
Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for
Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause
Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into
sincerity
Necessity of kingship
Neighbour’s blazing roof was likely soon to
fire their own
New Years Day in England, 11th January by the New
Style
Nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed
in on
Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence
Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained
facts
Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep
nor crouch
Not distinguished for their docility
Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren in facts
Others that do nothing, do all, and have all the thanks
Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands
of law
Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous
estate
Peace-at-any-price party
Possible to do, only because we see that it has been
done
Repentance, as usual, had come many hours too late
Repose in the other world, “Repos ailleurs”
Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance
Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived
Seeking protection for and against the people
Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous
Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen
Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the
bad
String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza
The very word toleration was to sound like an insult
The busy devil of petty economy
There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm
They were always to deceive every one, upon every
occasion
Thought that all was too little for him
Three hundred and upwards are hanged annually in London
Tis pity he is not an Englishman
To work, ever to work, was the primary law of his
nature
Tranquillity rather of paralysis than of health
Twas pity, he said, that both should be heretics
Page 25
Upper and lower millstones of royal wrath and loyal
subserviency
Uttering of my choler doth little ease my grief or
help my case
Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for
himself
We must all die once
We mustn’t tickle ourselves to make ourselves
laugh
Weary of place without power
When persons of merit suffer without cause
With something of feline and feminine duplicity
Wrath of bigots on both sides
Write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#48][jm48v10.txt]4848
And thus this gentle and heroic spirit took its flight
Five great rivers hold the Netherland territory in
their coils
High officers were doing the work of private, soldiers
I did never see any man behave himself as he did
There is no man fitter for that purpose than myself
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#49][jm49v10.txt]4849
Are wont to hang their piety on the bell-rope
Arminianism
As logical as men in their cups are prone to be
Tolerating religious liberty had never entered his
mind
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1586 by Motley[#50][jm50v10.txt]4850
Acknowledged head of the Puritan party of England
(Leicester)
Geneva theocracy in the place of the vanished Papacy
Hankering for peace, when peace had really become
impossible
Hating nothing so much as idleness
Mirror ever held up before their eyes by the obedient
Provinces
Rigid and intolerant spirit of the reformed religion
Scorn the very word toleration as an insult
The word liberty was never musical in Tudor ears
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#51][jm51v10.txt]4851
Defect of enjoying the flattery, of his inferiors
in station
The sapling was to become the tree
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#52][jm52v10.txt]4852
All business has been transacted with open doors
Beacons in the upward path of mankind
Been already crimination and recrimination more than
enough
Casting up the matter “as pinchingly as possibly
might be”
Disposed to throat-cutting by the ministers of the
Gospel
During this, whole war, we have never seen the like
Even to grant it slowly is to deny it utterly
Evil is coming, the sooner it arrives the better
Fool who useth not wit because he hath it not
Guilty of no other crime than adhesion to the Catholic
faith
Individuals walking in advance of their age
Never peace well made, he observed, without a mighty
war
Rebuked him for his obedience
Respect for differences in religious opinions
Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully obeying her
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orders
Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill
Sword in hand is the best pen to write the conditions
of peace
Their existence depended on war
They chose to compel no man’s conscience
Torturing, hanging, embowelling of men, women, and
children
Universal suffrage was not dreamed of at that day
Waiting the pleasure of a capricious and despotic
woman
Who the “people” exactly were
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#53][jm53v10.txt]4853
The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels
We were sold by their negligence who are now angry
with us
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1587 by Motley[#54][jm54v10.txt]4854
Act of Uniformity required Papists to assist
As lieve see the Spanish as the Calvinistic inquisition
Elizabeth (had not) the faintest idea of religious
freedom
God, whose cause it was, would be pleased to give
good weather
Heretics to the English Church were persecuted
Look for a sharp war, or a miserable peace
Loving only the persons who flattered him
Not many more than two hundred Catholics were executed
Only citadel against a tyrant and a conqueror was
distrust
Stake or gallows (for) heretics to transubstantiation
States were justified in their almost unlimited distrust
Undue anxiety for impartiality
Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity by an enormous
fine
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#55][jm55v10.txt]4855
Bungling diplomatists and credulous dotards
Fitter to obey than to command
Full of precedents and declamatory commonplaces
I am a king that will be ever known not to fear any
but God
Infamy of diplomacy, when diplomacy is unaccompanied
by honesty
Mendacity may always obtain over innocence and credulity
Never did statesmen know better how not to do
Pray here for satiety, (said Cecil) than ever think
of variety
Simple truth was highest skill
Strength does a falsehood acquire in determined and
skilful hand
That crowned criminal, Philip the Second
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#56][jm56v10.txt]4856
A burnt cat fears the fire
A free commonwealth—was thought an absurdity
Baiting his hook a little to his appetite
Canker of a long peace
Englishmen and Hollanders preparing to cut each other’s
throats
Faction has rarely worn a more mischievous aspect
Hard at work, pouring sand through their sieves
She relieth on a hope that will deceive her
Sparing and war have no affinity together
The worst were encouraged with their good success
Trust her sword, not her enemy’s word
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#57][jm57v10.txt]4857
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Inquisitors enough; but there were no light vessels
in The Armada
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588 by Motley[#58][jm58v10.txt]4858
Forbidding the wearing of mourning at all
Hardly a distinguished family in Spain not placed
in mourning
Invincible Armada had not only been vanquished but
annihilated
Nothing could equal Alexander’s fidelity, but
his perfidy
One could neither cry nor laugh within the Spanish
dominions
Security is dangerous
Sixteen of their best ships had been sacrificed
Sure bind, sure find
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1588-89 by Motley[#59][jm59v10.txt]4859
I will never live, to see the end of my poverty
Religion was not to be changed like a shirt
Tension now gave place to exhaustion
ENTIRE 1586-89 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#60][jm60v10.txt]4860
A burnt cat fears the fire
A free commonwealth—was thought an absurdity
Act of Uniformity required Papists to assist
All business has been transacted with open doors
And thus this gentle and heroic spirit took its flight
Are wont to hang their piety on the bell-rope
Arminianism
As lieve see the Spanish as the Calvinistic inquisition
As logical as men in their cups are prone to be
Baiting his hook a little to his appetite
Beacons in the upward path of mankind
Been already crimination and recrimination more than
enough
Bungling diplomatists and credulous dotards
Canker of a long peace
Casting up the matter “as pinchingly as possibly
might be”
Defect of enjoying the flattery, of his inferiors
in station
Disposed to throat-cutting by the ministers of the
Gospel
During this, whole war, we have never seen the like
Elizabeth (had not) the faintest idea of religious
freedom
Englishmen and Hollanders preparing to cut each other’s
throats
Even to grant it slowly is to deny it utterly
Evil is coming, the sooner it arrives the better
Faction has rarely worn a more mischievous aspect
Fitter to obey than to command
Five great rivers hold the Netherland territory in
their coils
Fool who useth not wit because he hath it not
Forbidding the wearing of mourning at all
Full of precedents and declamatory commonplaces
God, whose cause it was, would be pleased to give
good weather
Guilty of no other crime than adhesion to the Catholic
faith
Hard at work, pouring sand through their sieves
Hardly a distinguished family in Spain not placed
in mourning
Heretics to the English Church were persecuted
High officers were doing the work of private, soldiers
I did never see any man behave himself as he did
I am a king that will be ever known not to fear any
but God
I will never live, to see the end of my poverty
Individuals walking in advance of their age
Page 28
Infamy of diplomacy, when diplomacy is unaccompanied
by honesty
Inquisitors enough; but there were no light vessels
in The Armada
Invincible Armada had not only been vanquished but
annihilated
Look for a sharp war, or a miserable peace
Loving only the persons who flattered him
Mendacity may always obtain over innocence and credulity
Never peace well made, he observed, without a mighty
war
Never did statesmen know better how not to do
Not many more than two hundred Catholics were executed
Nothing could equal Alexander’s fidelity, but
his perfidy
One could neither cry nor laugh within the Spanish
dominions
Only citadel against a tyrant and a conqueror was
distrust
Pray here for satiety, (said Cecil) than ever think
of variety
Rebuked him for his obedience
Religion was not to be changed like a shirt
Respect for differences in religious opinions
Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully obeying her
orders
Security is dangerous
She relieth on a hope that will deceive her
Simple truth was highest skill
Sixteen of their best ships had been sacrificed
Sparing and war have no affinity together
Stake or gallows (for) heretics to transubstantiation
States were justified in their almost unlimited distrust
Strength does a falsehood acquire in determined and
skilful hand
Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill
Sure bind, sure find
Sword in hand is the best pen to write the conditions
of peace
Tension now gave place to exhaustion
That crowned criminal, Philip the Second
The worst were encouraged with their good success
The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels
The sapling was to become the tree
Their existence depended on war
There is no man fitter for that purpose than myself
They chose to compel no man’s conscience
Tolerating religious liberty had never entered his
mind
Torturing, hanging, embowelling of men, women, and
children
Trust her sword, not her enemy’s word
Undue anxiety for impartiality
Universal suffrage was not dreamed of at that day
Waiting the pleasure of a capricious and despotic
woman
We were sold by their negligence who are now angry
with us
Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity by an enormous
fine
Who the “people” exactly were
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1590 by Motley[#61][jm61v10.txt]4861
A pusillanimous peace, always possible at any period
At length the twig was becoming the tree
Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies
Certainly it was worth an eighty years’ war
Chief seafaring nations of the world were already
protestant
Conceding it subsequently, after much contestation
Fled from the land of oppression to the land of liberty
German Highland and the German Netherland
Little army of Maurice was becoming the model for
Europe
Luxury had blunted the fine instincts of patriotism
Maritime heretics
Portion of these revenues savoured much of black-mail
The divine speciality of a few transitory mortals
The history of the Netherlands is history of liberty
The nation which deliberately carves itself in pieces
They had come to disbelieve in the mystery of kingcraft
Worn nor caused to be worn the collar of the serf
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HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1590 by Motley[#62][jm62v10.txt]4862
Alexander’s exuberant discretion
Divine right of kings
Ever met disaster with so cheerful a smile
Future world as laid down by rival priesthoods
Invaluable gift which no human being can acquire,
authority
King was often to be something much less or much worse
Magnificent hopefulness
Myself seeing of it methinketh that I dream
Nothing cheap, said a citizen bitterly, but sermons
Obscure were thought capable of dying natural deaths
Philip II. gave the world work enough
Righteous to kill their own children
Road to Paris lay through the gates of Rome
Shift the mantle of religion from one shoulder to
the other
Thirty-three per cent. interest was paid (per month)
Under the name of religion (so many crimes)
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1590-92 by Motley[#63][jm63v10.txt]4863
Anatomical study of what has ceased to exist
Artillery
Bomb-shells were not often used although known for
a century
Court fatigue, to scorn pleasure
For us, looking back upon the Past, which was then
the Future
Hardly an inch of French soil that had not two possessors
Holy institution called the Inquisition
Inevitable fate of talking castles and listening ladies
Life of nations and which we call the Past
Often necessary to be blind and deaf
Picturesqueness of crime
Royal plans should be enforced adequately or abandoned
entirely
Toil and sacrifices of those who have preceded us
Use of the spade
Utter disproportions between the king’s means
and aims
Valour on the one side and discretion on the other
Walk up and down the earth and destroy his fellow-creatures
We have the reputation of being a good housewife
Weapons
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1592 by Motley[#64][jm64v10.txt]4864
Accustomed to the faded gallantries
Conformity of Governments to the principles of justice
Considerable reason, even if there were but little
justice
Disciple of Simon Stevinus
Self-assertion—the healthful but not engaging
attribute
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1592-94 by Motley[#65][jm65v10.txt]4865
All fellow-worms together
Continuing to believe himself invincible and infallible
He spent more time at table than the Bearnese in sleep
Henry the Huguenot as the champion of the Council
of Trent
Highest were not necessarily the least slimy
His invectives were, however, much stronger than his
arguments
History is a continuous whole of which we see only
fragments
Infinite capacity for pecuniary absorption
Leading motive with all was supposed to be religion
Past was once the Present, and once the Future
Sages of every generation, read the future like a
printed scroll
Sewers which have ever run beneath decorous Christendom
Wrath of that injured personage as he read such libellous
truths
Page 30
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1594 by Motley[#66][jm66v10.txt]4866
Beneficent and charitable purposes (War)
Chronicle of events must not be anticipated
Eat their own children than to forego one high mass
Humanizing effect of science upon the barbarism of
war
Slain four hundred and ten men with his own hand
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1595 by Motley[#67][jm67v10.txt]4867
Deal with his enemy as if sure to become his friend
Mondragon was now ninety-two years old
More catholic than the pope
Octogenarian was past work and past mischief
Sacked and drowned ten infant princes
Strangled his nineteen brothers on his accession
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1595-96 by Motley[#68][jm68v10.txt]4868
Allow her to seek a profit from his misfortune
Burning of Servetus at Geneva
Constant vigilance is the price of liberty
Evil has the advantage of rapidly assuming many shapes
French seem madmen, and are wise
Hanging of Mary Dyer at Boston
Imposed upon the multitudes, with whom words were
things
Impossible it was to invent terms of adulation too
gross
In times of civil war, to be neutral is to be nothing
Meet around a green table except as fencers in the
field
One-third of Philip’s effective navy was thus
destroyed
Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea
Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat
Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes
ridiculous
Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the line of demarcation
So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism)
Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen
The Alcoran was less cruel than the Inquisition
There are few inventions in morals
To attack England it was necessary to take the road
of Ireland
Tranquil insolence
Unproductive consumption was alarmingly increasing
Upon their knees, served the queen with wine
Wish to sell us the bear-skin before they have killed
the bear
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1597-98 by Motley[#69][jm69v10.txt]4869
Auction sales of judicial ermine
Decline a bribe or interfere with the private sale
of places
Famous fowl in every pot
Fellow worms had been writhing for half a century
in the dust
For his humanity towards the conquered garrisons (censured)
Historical scepticism may shut its eyes to evidence
Imagining that they held the world’s destiny
in their hands
King had issued a general repudiation of his debts
Loud, nasal, dictatorial tone, not at all agreeable
Peace would be destruction
Repudiation of national debts was never heard of before
Some rude lessons from that vigorous little commonwealth
Such a crime as this had never been conceived (bankruptcy)
They liked not such divine right nor such gentle-mindedness
Whether murders or stratagems, as if they were acts
of virtue
Page 31
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1598 by Motley[#70][jm70v10.txt]4870
A despot really keeps no accounts, nor need to do
so
All Italy was in his hands
Every one sees what you seem, few perceive what you
are
God of wrath who had decreed the extermination of
all unbeliever
Had industry been honoured instead of being despised
History is but made up of a few scattered fragments
Hugo Grotius
Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging, filching vagabonds
Ignorance is the real enslaver of mankind
Innocent generation, to atone for the sins of their
forefathers
Intelligence, science, and industry were accounted
degrading
Labour was esteemed dishonourable
Man had no rights at all He was property
Matters little by what name a government is called
Moral nature, undergoes less change than might be
hoped
Names history has often found it convenient to mark
its epochs
National character, not the work of a few individuals
Proceeds of his permission to eat meat on Fridays
Rarely able to command, having never learned to obey
Rich enough to be worth robbing
Seems but a change of masks, of costume, of phraseology
Selling the privilege of eating eggs upon fast-days
Sentiment of Christian self-complacency
Spain was governed by an established terrorism
That unholy trinity—Force; Dogma, and Ignorance
The great ocean was but a Spanish lake
The most thriving branch of national industry (Smuggler)
The record of our race is essentially unwritten
Thirty thousand masses should be said for his soul
Those who argue against a foregone conclusion
Three or four hundred petty sovereigns (of Germany)
Utter want of adaptation of his means to his ends
While one’s friends urge moderation
Whole revenue was pledged to pay the interest, on
his debts
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1598-99 by Motley[#71][jm71v10.txt]4871
Children who had never set foot on the shore
Done nothing so long as aught remained to do
Fed on bear’s liver, were nearly poisoned to
death
Inhabited by the savage tribes called Samoyedes
ENTIRE 1590-99 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#72][jm72v10.txt]4872
A pusillanimous peace, always possible at any period
A despot really keeps no accounts, nor need to do
so
Accustomed to the faded gallantries
Alexander’s exuberant discretion
All Italy was in his hands
All fellow-worms together
Allow her to seek a profit from his misfortune
Anatomical study of what has ceased to exist
Artillery
At length the twig was becoming the tree
Auction sales of judicial ermine
Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies
Beneficent and charitable purposes (War)
Bomb-shells were not often used although known for
Page 32
a century
Burning of Servetus at Geneva
Certainly it was worth an eighty years’ war
Chief seafaring nations of the world were already
protestant
Children who had never set foot on the shore
Chronicle of events must not be anticipated
Conceding it subsequently, after much contestation
Conformity of Governments to the principles of justice
Considerable reason, even if there were but little
justice
Constant vigilance is the price of liberty
Continuing to believe himself invincible and infallible
Court fatigue, to scorn pleasure
Deal with his enemy as if sure to become his friend
Decline a bribe or interfere with the private sale
of places
Disciple of Simon Stevinus
Divine right of kings
Done nothing so long as aught remained to do
Eat their own children than to forego one high mass
Ever met disaster with so cheerful a smile
Every one sees what you seem, few perceive what you
are
Evil has the advantage of rapidly assuming many shapes
Famous fowl in every pot
Fed on bear’s liver, were nearly poisoned to
death
Fellow worms had been writhing for half a century
in the dust
Fled from the land of oppression to the land of liberty
For his humanity towards the conquered garrisons (censured)
For us, looking back upon the Past, which was then
the Future
French seem madmen, and are wise
Future world as laid down by rival priesthoods
German Highland and the German Netherland
God of wrath who had decreed the extermination of
all unbeliever
Had industry been honoured instead of being despised
Hanging of Mary Dyer at Boston
Hardly an inch of French soil that had not two possessors
He spent more time at table than the Bearnese in sleep
Henry the Huguenot as the champion of the Council
of Trent
Highest were not necessarily the least slimy
His invectives were, however, much stronger than his
arguments
Historical scepticism may shut its eyes to evidence
History is but made up of a few scattered fragments
History is a continuous whole of which we see only
fragments
Holy institution called the Inquisition
Hugo Grotius
Humanizing effect of science upon the barbarism of
war
Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging, filching vagabonds
Ignorance is the real enslaver of mankind
Imagining that they held the world’s destiny
in their hands
Imposed upon the multitudes, with whom words were
things
Impossible it was to invent terms of adulation too
gross
In times of civil war, to be neutral is to be nothing
Inevitable fate of talking castles and listening ladies
Infinite capacity for pecuniary absorption
Inhabited by the savage tribes called Samoyedes
Innocent generation, to atone for the sins of their
forefathers
Intelligence, science, and industry were accounted
degrading
Invaluable gift which no human being can acquire,
authority
King was often to be something much less or much worse
Page 33
King had issued a general repudiation of his debts
Labour was esteemed dishonourable
Leading motive with all was supposed to be religion
Life of nations and which we call the Past
Little army of Maurice was becoming the model for
Europe
Loud, nasal, dictatorial tone, not at all agreeable
Luxury had blunted the fine instincts of patriotism
Magnificent hopefulness
Man had no rights at all He was property
Maritime heretics
Matters little by what name a government is called
Meet around a green table except as fencers in the
field
Mondragon was now ninety-two years old
Moral nature, undergoes less change than might be
hoped
More catholic than the pope
Myself seeing of it methinketh that I dream
Names history has often found it convenient to mark
its epochs
National character, not the work of a few individuals
Nothing cheap, said a citizen bitterly, but sermons
Obscure were thought capable of dying natural deaths
Octogenarian was past work and past mischief
Often necessary to be blind and deaf
One-third of Philip’s effective navy was thus
destroyed
Past was once the Present, and once the Future
Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea
Peace would be destruction
Philip II. gave the world work enough
Picturesqueness of crime
Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat
Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes
ridiculous
Portion of these revenues savoured much of black-mail
Proceeds of his permission to eat meat on Fridays
Rarely able to command, having never learned to obey
Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the line of demarcation
Repudiation of national debts was never heard of before
Rich enough to be worth robbing
Righteous to kill their own children
Road to Paris lay through the gates of Rome
Royal plans should be enforced adequately or abandoned
entirely
Sacked and drowned ten infant princes
Sages of every generation, read the future like a
printed scroll
Seems but a change of masks, of costume, of phraseology
Self-assertion—the healthful but not engaging
attribute
Selling the privilege of eating eggs upon fast-days
Sentiment of Christian self-complacency
Sewers which have ever run beneath decorous Christendom
Shift the mantle of religion from one shoulder to
the other
Slain four hundred and ten men with his own hand
So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism)
Some rude lessons from that vigorous little commonwealth
Spain was governed by an established terrorism
Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen
Strangled his nineteen brothers on his accession
Such a crime as this had never been conceived (bankruptcy)
That unholy trinity—Force; Dogma, and Ignorance
The history of the Netherlands is history of liberty
The great ocean was but a Spanish lake
The divine speciality of a few transitory mortals
The Alcoran was less cruel than the Inquisition
Page 34
The nation which deliberately carves itself in pieces
The most thriving branch of national industry (Smuggler)
The record of our race is essentially unwritten
There are few inventions in morals
They liked not such divine right nor such gentle-mindedness
They had come to disbelieve in the mystery of kingcraft
Thirty thousand masses should be said for his soul
Thirty-three per cent. interest was paid (per month)
Those who argue against a foregone conclusion
Three or four hundred petty sovereigns (of Germany)
To attack England it was necessary to take the road
of Ireland
Toil and sacrifices of those who have preceded us
Tranquil insolence
Under the name of religion (so many crimes)
Unproductive consumption was alarmingly increasing
Upon their knees, served the queen with wine
Use of the spade
Utter want of adaptation of his means to his ends
Utter disproportions between the king’s means
and aims
Valour on the one side and discretion on the other
Walk up and down the earth and destroy his fellow-creatures
We have the reputation of being a good housewife
Weapons
Whether murders or stratagems, as if they were acts
of virtue
While one’s friends urge moderation
Whole revenue was pledged to pay the interest, on
his debts
Wish to sell us the bear-skin before they have killed
the bear
Worn nor caused to be worn the collar of the serf
Wrath of that injured personage as he read such libellous
truths
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1600 by Motley[#73][jm73v10.txt]4873
Alas! the benighted victims of superstition hugged
their chains
Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence
The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs
of war
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1600-02 by Motley[#74][jm74v10.txt]4874
Constitute themselves at once universal legatees
Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could
imagine
Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds)
War was the normal and natural condition of mankind
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1602-03 by Motley[#75][jm75v10.txt]4875
Bestowing upon others what was not his property
Four weeks’ holiday—the first in
eleven years
Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations
Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed
brains
Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory
Prisoners were immediately hanged
Unlearned their faith in bell, book, and candle
World has rolled on to fresher fields of carnage and
ruin
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1603-04 by Motley[#76][jm76v10.txt]4876
Page 35
Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand
Certain number of powers, almost exactly equal to
each other
Conceit, and procrastination which marked the royal
character
Do you want peace or war? I am ready for either
Eloquence of the biggest guns
Even the virtues of James were his worst enemies
Gold was the only passkey to justice
If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good
to do
It is certain that the English hate us (Sully)
Logic of the largest battalions
Made peace—and had been at war ever since
Nations tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery
Natural tendency to suspicion of a timid man
Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names
One of the most contemptible and mischievous of kings
(James I)
Peace founded on the only secure basis, equality of
strength
Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war
Repose under one despot guaranteed to them by two
others
Requires less mention than Philip III himself
Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns
Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their
knees
Take all their imaginations and extravagances for
truths
The expenses of James’s household
The pigmy, as the late queen had been fond of nicknaming
him
To negotiate with Government in England was to bribe
Unproductive consumption being accounted most sagacious
War was the normal condition of Christians
We have been talking a little bit of truth to each
other
What was to be done in this world and believed as
to the next
You must show your teeth to the Spaniard
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1604-05 by Motley[#77][jm77v10.txt]4877
Abstinence from unproductive consumption
Defeated garrison ever deserved more respect from
friend or foe
His own past triumphs seemed now his greatest enemies
Hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by
her decree
John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.
Looking down upon her struggle with benevolent indifference
No retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs,
and buildings
Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged
The small children diminished rapidly in numbers
When all was gone, they began to eat each other
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1605-07 by Motley[#78][jm78v10.txt]4878
A penal offence in the republic to talk of peace or
of truce
Accepting a new tyrant in place of the one so long
ago deposed
As if they were free will not make them free
As neat a deception by telling the truth
Cargo of imaginary gold dust was exported from the
James River
Delay often fights better than an army against a foreign
invader
Diplomacy of Spain and Rome—meant simply
dissimulation
Draw a profit out of the necessities of this state
England hated the Netherlands
Page 36
Friendly advice still more intolerable
Haereticis non servanda fides
He who confessed well was absolved well
Insensible to contumely, and incapable of accepting
a rebuff
Languor of fatigue, rather than any sincere desire
for peace
Much as the blind or the deaf towards colour or music
Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a
friend
Word peace in Spanish mouths simply meant the Holy
Inquisition
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1607 by Motley[#79][jm79v10.txt]4879
A man incapable of fatigue, of perplexity, or of fear
Converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling
Gigantic vices are proudly pointed to as the noblest
No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest
Proclaiming the virginity of the Virgin’s mother
Steeped to the lips in sloth which imagined itself
to be pride
To shirk labour, infinite numbers become priests and
friars
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1607 by Motley[#80][jm80v10.txt]4880
A sovereign remedy for the disease of liberty
All the ministers and great functionaries received
presents
Because he had been successful (hated)
But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate
By turns, we all govern and are governed
Contempt for treaties however solemnly ratified
Despised those who were grateful
Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation
Indulging them frequently with oracular advice
Justified themselves in a solemn consumption of time
Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign
Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity
Men who meant what they said and said what they meant
Negotiated as if they were all immortal
Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable
To negotiate was to bribe right and left, and at every
step
Unwise impatience for peace
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1608 by Motley[#81][jm81v10.txt]4881
Night brings counsel
This obstinate little republic
Triple marriages between the respective nurseries
Usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side
countered
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1608 by Motley[#82][jm82v10.txt]4882
A truce he honestly considered a pitfall of destruction
Alas! we must always have something to persecute
Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise
begins
Beware of a truce even more than of a peace
Could handle an argument as well as a sword
God alone can protect us against those whom we trust
Humble ignorance as the safest creed
Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom
Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce
was inevitable
Readiness at any moment to defend dearly won liberties
Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation
The art of ruling the world by doing nothing
To doubt the infallibility of Calvin was as heinous
a crime
What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape
bankruptcy
Words are always interpreted to the disadvantage of
the weak
Page 37
HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1609 by Motley[#83][jm83v10.txt]4883
About equal to that of England at the same period
An unjust God, himself the origin of sin
Butchery in the name of Christ was suspended
Calling a peace perpetual can never make it so
Chieftains are dwarfed in the estimation of followers
Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and therefore
persecuting
Exorcising the devil by murdering his supposed victims
Foremost to shake off the fetters of superstition
God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of injustice
Gomarites accused the Arminians of being more lax
than Papists
Hangman is not the most appropriate teacher of religion
He often spoke of popular rights with contempt
John Wier, a physician of Grave
Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch
Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers
Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)
Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work
Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants
So unconscious of her strength
State can best defend religion by letting it alone
Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent
The People had not been invented
The slightest theft was punished with the gallows
Tolerate another religion that his own may be tolerated
Toleration—that intolerable term of insult
War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of
the strongest
ENTIRE 1600-09 UNITED NETHERLANDS, by Motley[#84][jm84v10.txt]4884
A penal offence in the republic to talk of peace or
of truce
A sovereign remedy for the disease of liberty
A man incapable of fatigue, of perplexity, or of fear
A truce he honestly considered a pitfall of destruction
About equal to that of England at the same period
Abstinence from unproductive consumption
Accepting a new tyrant in place of the one so long
ago deposed
Alas! we must always have something to persecute
Alas! the benighted victims of superstition hugged
their chains
All the ministers and great functionaries received
presents
An unjust God, himself the origin of sin
Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise
begins
As if they were free will not make them free
As neat a deception by telling the truth
Because he had been successful (hated)
Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand
Bestowing upon others what was not his property
Beware of a truce even more than of a peace
But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate
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
Cargo of imaginary gold dust was exported from the
James River
Certain number of powers, almost exactly equal to
each other
Chieftains are dwarfed in the estimation of followers
Page 38
Conceit, and procrastination which marked the royal
character
Constitute themselves at once universal legatees
Contempt for treaties however solemnly ratified
Converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling
Could handle an argument as well as a sword
Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could
imagine
Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence
Defeated garrison ever deserved more respect from
friend or foe
Delay often fights better than an army against a foreign
invader
Despised those who were grateful
Diplomacy of Spain and Rome—meant simply
dissimulation
Do you want peace or war? I am ready for either
Draw a profit out of the necessities of this state
Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and therefore
persecuting
Eloquence of the biggest guns
England hated the Netherlands
Even the virtues of James were his worst enemies
Exorcising the devil by murdering his supposed victims
Foremost to shake off the fetters of superstition
Four weeks’ holiday—the first in
eleven years
Friendly advice still more intolerable
Gigantic vices are proudly pointed to as the noblest
God alone can protect us against those whom we trust
God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of injustice
Gold was the only passkey to justice
Gomarites accused the Arminians of being more lax
than Papists
Haereticis non servanda fides
Hangman is not the most appropriate teacher of religion
He often spoke of popular rights with contempt
He who confessed well was absolved well
His own past triumphs seemed now his greatest enemies
Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds)
Humble ignorance as the safest creed
Hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by
her decree
Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations
Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation
If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good
to do
Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed
brains
Indulging them frequently with oracular advice
Insensible to contumely, and incapable of accepting
a rebuff
It is certain that the English hate us (Sully)
John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.
John Wier, a physician of Grave
Justified themselves in a solemn consumption of time
Languor of fatigue, rather than any sincere desire
for peace
Logic of the largest battalions
Looking down upon her struggle with benevolent indifference
Made peace—and had been at war ever since
Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom
Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign
Men who meant what they said and said what they meant
Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity
Much as the blind or the deaf towards colour or music
Nations tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery
Natural tendency to suspicion of a timid man
Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch
Negotiated as if they were all immortal
Page 39
Night brings counsel
No retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs,
and buildings
No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest
Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names
Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers
One of the most contemptible and mischievous of kings
(James I)
Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory
Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)
Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war
Peace founded on the only secure basis, equality of
strength
Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce
was inevitable
Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable
Prisoners were immediately hanged
Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work
Proclaiming the virginity of the Virgin’s mother
Readiness at any moment to defend dearly won liberties
Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants
Repose under one despot guaranteed to them by two
others
Requires less mention than Philip III himself
Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns
Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their
knees
Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged
So unconscious of her strength
State can best defend religion by letting it alone
Steeped to the lips in sloth which imagined itself
to be pride
Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a
friend
Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation
Take all their imaginations and extravagances for
truths
Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent
The art of ruling the world by doing nothing
The slightest theft was punished with the gallows
The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs
of war
The pigmy, as the late queen had been fond of nicknaming
him
The expenses of James’s household
The People had not been invented
The small children diminished rapidly in numbers
This obstinate little republic
To shirk labour, infinite numbers become priests and
friars
To negotiate was to bribe right and left, and at every
step
To doubt the infallibility of Calvin was as heinous
a crime
To negotiate with Government in England was to bribe
Tolerate another religion that his own may be tolerated
Toleration—that intolerable term of insult
Triple marriages between the respective nurseries
Unlearned their faith in bell, book, and candle
Unproductive consumption being accounted most sagacious
Unwise impatience for peace
Usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side
countered
War was the normal and natural condition of mankind
War was the normal condition of Christians
War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of
the strongest
We have been talking a little bit of truth to each
other
What was to be done in this world and believed as
to the next
What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape
bankruptcy
When all was gone, they began to eat each other
Word peace in Spanish mouths simply meant the Holy
Inquisition
Words are always interpreted to the disadvantage of
the weak
World has rolled on to fresher fields of carnage and
ruin
You must show your teeth to the Spaniard
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A hard bargain when both parties are losers
A penal offence in the republic to talk of peace or
of truce
A despot really keeps no accounts, nor need to do
so
A free commonwealth—was thought an absurdity
A burnt cat fears the fire
A pusillanimous peace, always possible at any period
A man incapable of fatigue, of perplexity, or of fear
A sovereign remedy for the disease of liberty
A truce he honestly considered a pitfall of destruction
Able men should be by design and of purpose suppressed
About equal to that of England at the same period
Abstinence from unproductive consumption
Accepting a new tyrant in place of the one so long
ago deposed
Accustomed to the faded gallantries
Act of Uniformity required Papists to assist
Alas! we must always have something to persecute
Alas! the benighted victims of superstition hugged
their chains
Alexander’s exuberant discretion
All fellow-worms together
All business has been transacted with open doors
All Italy was in his hands
All the ministers and great functionaries received
presents
Allow her to seek a profit from his misfortune
An unjust God, himself the origin of sin
Anarchy which was deemed inseparable from a non-regal
form
Anatomical study of what has ceased to exist
And thus this gentle and heroic spirit took its flight
Are wont to hang their piety on the bell-rope
Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise
begins
Arminianism
Artillery
As logical as men in their cups are prone to be
As if they were free will not make them free
As neat a deception by telling the truth
As lieve see the Spanish as the Calvinistic inquisition
At length the twig was becoming the tree
Auction sales of judicial ermine
Baiting his hook a little to his appetite
Beacons in the upward path of mankind
Because he had been successful (hated)
Been already crimination and recrimination more than
enough
Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand
Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies
Beneficent and charitable purposes (War)
Bestowing upon others what was not his property
Beware of a truce even more than of a peace
Bomb-shells were not often used although known for
a century
Bungling diplomatists and credulous dotards
Burning of Servetus at Geneva
But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate
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
Canker of a long peace
Cargo of imaginary gold dust was exported from the
James River
Casting up the matter “as pinchingly as possibly
might be”
Certain number of powers, almost exactly equal to
each other
Certainly it was worth an eighty years’ war
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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
Chronicle of events must not be anticipated
College of “peace-makers,” who wrangled
more than all
Conceding it subsequently, after much contestation
Conceit, and procrastination which marked the royal
character
Condemned first and inquired upon after
Conformity of Governments to the principles of justice
Considerable reason, even if there were but little
justice
Constant vigilance is the price of liberty
Constitute themselves at once universal legatees
Contempt for treaties however solemnly ratified
Continuing to believe himself invincible and infallible
Converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling
Could do a little more than what was possible
Could handle an argument as well as a sword
Courage and semblance of cheerfulness, with despair
in his heart
Court fatigue, to scorn pleasure
Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could
imagine
Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence
Deal with his enemy as if sure to become his friend
Decline a bribe or interfere with the private sale
of places
Defeated garrison ever deserved more respect from
friend or foe
Defect of enjoying the flattery, of his inferiors
in station
Delay often fights better than an army against a foreign
invader
Demanding peace and bread at any price
Despised those who were grateful
Diplomacy of Spain and Rome—meant simply
dissimulation
Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly in the power
to deceive
Disciple of Simon Stevinus
Dismay of our friends and the gratification of our
enemies
Disordered, and unknit state needs no shaking, but
propping
Disposed to throat-cutting by the ministers of the
Gospel
Divine right of kings
Do you want peace or war? I am ready for either
Done nothing so long as aught remained to do
Draw a profit out of the necessities of this state
During this, whole war, we have never seen the like
Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and therefore
persecuting
Eat their own children than to forego one high mass
Elizabeth, though convicted, could always confute
Elizabeth (had not) the faintest idea of religious
freedom
Eloquence of the biggest guns
England hated the Netherlands
Englishmen and Hollanders preparing to cut each other’s
throats
Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists
Even the virtues of James were his worst enemies
Even to grant it slowly is to deny it utterly
Ever met disaster with so cheerful a smile
Every one sees what you seem, few perceive what you
are
Evil is coming, the sooner it arrives the better
Evil has the advantage of rapidly assuming many shapes
Exorcising the devil by murdering his supposed victims
Faction has rarely worn a more mischievous aspect
Famous fowl in every pot
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Fed on bear’s liver, were nearly poisoned to
death
Fellow worms had been writhing for half a century
in the dust
Find our destruction in our immoderate desire for
peace
Fitter to obey than to command
Five great rivers hold the Netherland territory in
their coils
Fled from the land of oppression to the land of liberty
Fool who useth not wit because he hath it not
For his humanity towards the conquered garrisons (censured)
For us, looking back upon the Past, which was then
the Future
Forbidding the wearing of mourning at all
Foremost to shake off the fetters of superstition
Four weeks’ holiday—the first in
eleven years
French seem madmen, and are wise
Friendly advice still more intolerable
Full of precedents and declamatory commonplaces
Future world as laid down by rival priesthoods
German Highland and the German Netherland
German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea of religious
freedom
Gigantic vices are proudly pointed to as the noblest
God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of injustice
God alone can protect us against those whom we trust
God of wrath who had decreed the extermination of
all unbeliever
God, whose cause it was, would be pleased to give
good weather
Gold was the only passkey to justice
Gomarites accused the Arminians of being more lax
than Papists
Guilty of no other crime than adhesion to the Catholic
faith
Had industry been honoured instead of being despised
Haereticis non servanda fides
Hanging of Mary Dyer at Boston
Hangman is not the most appropriate teacher of religion
Hard at work, pouring sand through their sieves
Hardly an inch of French soil that had not two possessors
Hardly a distinguished family in Spain not placed
in mourning
He often spoke of popular rights with contempt
He did his work, but he had not his reward
He who confessed well was absolved well
He spent more time at table than the Bearnese in sleep
He sat a great while at a time. He had a genius
for sitting
Henry the Huguenot as the champion of the Council
of Trent
Her teeth black, her bosom white and liberally exposed
(Eliz.)
Heretics to the English Church were persecuted
Hibernian mode of expressing himself
High officers were doing the work of private, soldiers
Highest were not necessarily the least slimy
His invectives were, however, much stronger than his
arguments
His own past triumphs seemed now his greatest enemies
His insolence intolerable
His inordinate arrogance
Historical scepticism may shut its eyes to evidence
History is but made up of a few scattered fragments
History is a continuous whole of which we see only
fragments
Holland was afraid to give a part, although offering
the whole
Holy institution called the Inquisition
Honor good patriots, and to support them in venial
errors
Hugo Grotius
Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds)
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Humanizing effect of science upon the barbarism of
war
Humble ignorance as the safest creed
Humility which was but the cloak to his pride
Hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by
her decree
I will never live, to see the end of my poverty
I am a king that will be ever known not to fear any
but God
I did never see any man behave himself as he did
Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations
Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation
Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging, filching vagabonds
If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good
to do
Ignorance is the real enslaver of mankind
Imagining that they held the world’s destiny
in their hands
Imposed upon the multitudes, with whom words were
things
Impossible it was to invent terms of adulation too
gross
Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed
brains
In times of civil war, to be neutral is to be nothing
Individuals walking in advance of their age
Indulging them frequently with oracular advice
Inevitable fate of talking castles and listening ladies
Infamy of diplomacy, when diplomacy is unaccompanied
by honesty
Infinite capacity for pecuniary absorption
Inhabited by the savage tribes called Samoyedes
Innocent generation, to atone for the sins of their
forefathers
Inquisitors enough; but there were no light vessels
in The Armada
Insensible to contumely, and incapable of accepting
a rebuff
Intelligence, science, and industry were accounted
degrading
Intentions of a government which did not know its
own intentions
Intolerable tendency to puns
Invaluable gift which no human being can acquire,
authority
Invincible Armada had not only been vanquished but
annihilated
It is certain that the English hate us (Sully)
John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.
John Wier, a physician of Grave
Justified themselves in a solemn consumption of time
King had issued a general repudiation of his debts
King was often to be something much less or much worse
Labour was esteemed dishonourable
Languor of fatigue, rather than any sincere desire
for peace
Leading motive with all was supposed to be religion
Life of nations and which we call the Past
Little army of Maurice was becoming the model for
Europe
Logic of the largest battalions
Longer they delay it, the less easy will they find
it
Look for a sharp war, or a miserable peace
Looking down upon her struggle with benevolent indifference
Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns
Loud, nasal, dictatorial tone, not at all agreeable
Loving only the persons who flattered him
Luxury had blunted the fine instincts of patriotism
Made peace—and had been at war ever since
Magnificent hopefulness
Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you
Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom
Man had no rights at all He was property
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Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign
Maritime heretics
Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for
Matters little by what name a government is called
Meet around a green table except as fencers in the
field
Men who meant what they said and said what they meant
Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity
Mendacity may always obtain over innocence and credulity
Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause
Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into
sincerity
Mondragon was now ninety-two years old
Moral nature, undergoes less change than might be
hoped
More catholic than the pope
Much as the blind or the deaf towards colour or music
Myself seeing of it methinketh that I dream
Names history has often found it convenient to mark
its epochs
National character, not the work of a few individuals
Nations tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery
Natural tendency to suspicion of a timid man
Necessity of kingship
Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch
Negotiated as if they were all immortal
Neighbour’s blazing roof was likely soon to
fire their own
Never did statesmen know better how not to do
Never peace well made, he observed, without a mighty
war
New Years Day in England, 11th January by the New
Style
Night brings counsel
Nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed
in on
No retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs,
and buildings
No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest
Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence
Not many more than two hundred Catholics were executed
Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained
facts
Not distinguished for their docility
Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep
nor crouch
Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names
Nothing cheap, said a citizen bitterly, but sermons
Nothing could equal Alexander’s fidelity, but
his perfidy
Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers
Obscure were thought capable of dying natural deaths
Octogenarian was past work and past mischief
Often necessary to be blind and deaf
One-third of Philip’s effective navy was thus
destroyed
One could neither cry nor laugh within the Spanish
dominions
One of the most contemptible and mischievous of kings
(James I)
Only citadel against a tyrant and a conqueror was
distrust
Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren in facts
Others that do nothing, do all, and have all the thanks
Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory
Past was once the Present, and once the Future
Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea
Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands
of law
Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)
Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous
estate
Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war
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Peace founded on the only secure basis, equality of
strength
Peace would be destruction
Peace-at-any-price party
Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce
was inevitable
Philip II. gave the world work enough
Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable
Picturesqueness of crime
Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat
Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes
ridiculous
Portion of these revenues savoured much of black-mail
Possible to do, only because we see that it has been
done
Pray here for satiety, (said Cecil) than ever think
of variety
Prisoners were immediately hanged
Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work
Proceeds of his permission to eat meat on Fridays
Proclaiming the virginity of the Virgin’s mother
Rarely able to command, having never learned to obey
Readiness at any moment to defend dearly won liberties
Rebuked him for his obedience
Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the line of demarcation
Religion was not to be changed like a shirt
Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants
Repentance, as usual, had come many hours too late
Repose under one despot guaranteed to them by two
others
Repose in the other world, “Repos ailleurs”
Repudiation of national debts was never heard of before
Requires less mention than Philip III himself
Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance
Respect for differences in religious opinions
Rich enough to be worth robbing
Righteous to kill their own children
Road to Paris lay through the gates of Rome
Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived
Royal plans should be enforced adequately or abandoned
entirely
Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns
Sacked and drowned ten infant princes
Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully obeying her
orders
Sages of every generation, read the future like a
printed scroll
Security is dangerous
Seeking protection for and against the people
Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous
Seems but a change of masks, of costume, of phraseology
Self-assertion—the healthful but not engaging
attribute
Selling the privilege of eating eggs upon fast-days
Sentiment of Christian self-complacency
Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their
knees
Sewers which have ever run beneath decorous Christendom
She relieth on a hope that will deceive her
Shift the mantle of religion from one shoulder to
the other
Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen
Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged
Simple truth was highest skill
Sixteen of their best ships had been sacrificed
Slain four hundred and ten men with his own hand
So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism)
So unconscious of her strength
Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the
bad
Some rude lessons from that vigorous little commonwealth
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Spain was governed by an established terrorism
Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen
Sparing and war have no affinity together
Stake or gallows (for) heretics to transubstantiation
State can best defend religion by letting it alone
States were justified in their almost unlimited distrust
Steeped to the lips in sloth which imagined itself
to be pride
Strangled his nineteen brothers on his accession
Strength does a falsehood acquire in determined and
skilful hand
String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza
Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a
friend
Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill
Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation
Such a crime as this had never been conceived (bankruptcy)
Sure bind, sure find
Sword in hand is the best pen to write the conditions
of peace
Take all their imaginations and extravagances for
truths
Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent
Tension now gave place to exhaustion
That crowned criminal, Philip the Second
That unholy trinity—Force; Dogma, and Ignorance
The very word toleration was to sound like an insult
The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels
The expenses of James’s household
The worst were encouraged with their good success
The history of the Netherlands is history of liberty
The great ocean was but a Spanish lake
The divine speciality of a few transitory mortals
The sapling was to become the tree
The nation which deliberately carves itself in pieces
The most thriving branch of national industry (Smuggler)
The record of our race is essentially unwritten
The busy devil of petty economy
The small children diminished rapidly in numbers
The People had not been invented
The Alcoran was less cruel than the Inquisition
The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs
of war
The art of ruling the world by doing nothing
The slightest theft was punished with the gallows
The pigmy, as the late queen had been fond of nicknaming
him
Their existence depended on war
There are few inventions in morals
There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm
There is no man fitter for that purpose than myself
They were always to deceive every one, upon every
occasion
They had come to disbelieve in the mystery of kingcraft
They liked not such divine right nor such gentle-mindedness
They chose to compel no man’s conscience
Thirty-three per cent. interest was paid (per month)
Thirty thousand masses should be said for his soul
This obstinate little republic
Those who argue against a foregone conclusion
Thought that all was too little for him
Three hundred and upwards are hanged annually in London
Three or four hundred petty sovereigns (of Germany)
Tis pity he is not an Englishman
To negotiate with Government in England was to bribe
To negotiate was to bribe right and left, and at every
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step
To work, ever to work, was the primary law of his
nature
To attack England it was necessary to take the road
of Ireland
To shirk labour, infinite numbers become priests and
friars
To doubt the infallibility of Calvin was as heinous
a crime
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
Torturing, hanging, embowelling of men, women, and
children
Tranquil insolence
Tranquillity rather of paralysis than of health
Triple marriages between the respective nurseries
Trust her sword, not her enemy’s word
Twas pity, he said, that both should be heretics
Under the name of religion (so many crimes)
Undue anxiety for impartiality
Universal suffrage was not dreamed of at that day
Unlearned their faith in bell, book, and candle
Unproductive consumption being accounted most sagacious
Unproductive consumption was alarmingly increasing
Unwise impatience for peace
Upon their knees, served the queen with wine
Upper and lower millstones of royal wrath and loyal
subserviency
Use of the spade
Usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side
countered
Utter want of adaptation of his means to his ends
Utter disproportions between the king’s means
and aims
Uttering of my choler doth little ease my grief or
help my case
Valour on the one side and discretion on the other
Waiting the pleasure of a capricious and despotic
woman
Walk up and down the earth and destroy his fellow-creatures
War was the normal and natural condition of mankind
War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of
the strongest
War was the normal condition of Christians
Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for
himself
We have the reputation of being a good housewife
We must all die once
We mustn’t tickle ourselves to make ourselves
laugh
We have been talking a little bit of truth to each
other
We were sold by their negligence who are now angry
with us
Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity by an enormous
fine
Weapons
Weary of place without power
What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape
bankruptcy
What was to be done in this world and believed as
to the next
When persons of merit suffer without cause
When all was gone, they began to eat each other
Whether murders or stratagems, as if they were acts
of virtue
While one’s friends urge moderation
Who the “people” exactly were
Whole revenue was pledged to pay the interest, on
his debts
Wish to sell us the bear-skin before they have killed
the bear
With something of feline and feminine duplicity
Word peace in Spanish mouths simply meant the Holy
Inquisition
Words are always interpreted to the disadvantage of
the weak
World has rolled on to fresher fields of carnage and
ruin
Worn nor caused to be worn the collar of the serf
Wrath of bigots on both sides
Wrath of that injured personage as he read such libellous
truths
Write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly
You must show your teeth to the Spaniard
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Abstinence from inquisition into consciences and private
parlour
Allowed the demon of religious hatred to enter into
its body
Behead, torture, burn alive, and bury alive all heretics
Christian sympathy and a small assistance not being
sufficient
Contained within itself the germs of a larger liberty
Could not be both judge and party in the suit
Covered now with the satirical dust of centuries
Deadly hatred of Puritans in England and Holland
Doctrine of predestination in its sternest and strictest
sense
Emperor of Japan addressed him as his brother monarch
Estimating his character and judging his judges
Everybody should mind his own business
He was a sincere bigot
Impatience is often on the part of the non-combatants
Intense bigotry of conviction
International friendship, the self-interest of each
It was the true religion, and there was none other
James of England, who admired, envied, and hated Henry
Jealousy, that potent principle
Language which is ever living because it is dead
More fiercely opposed to each other than to Papists
None but God to compel me to say more than I choose
to say
Power the poison of which it is so difficult to resist
Presents of considerable sums of money to the negotiators
made
Princes show what they have in them at twenty-five
or never
Putting the cart before the oxen
Religious toleration, which is a phrase of insult
Secure the prizes of war without the troubles and
dangers
Senectus edam maorbus est
So much in advance of his time as to favor religious
equality
The Catholic League and the Protestant Union
The truth in shortest about matters of importance
The vehicle is often prized more than the freight
There was but one king in Europe, Henry the Bearnese
There was no use in holding language of authority
to him
Thirty Years’ War tread on the heels of the
forty years
Unimaginable outrage as the most legitimate industry
Wish to appear learned in matters of which they are
ignorant
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He who spreads the snare always tumbles into the ditch
himself
Most detestable verses that even he had ever composed
She declined to be his procuress
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And now the knife of another priest-led fanatic
As with his own people, keeping no back-door open
At a blow decapitated France
Conclusive victory for the allies seemed as predestined
Epernon, the true murderer of Henry
Father Cotton, who was only too ready to betray the
secrets
Great war of religion and politics was postponed
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Jesuit Mariana—justifying the killing of
excommunicated kings
No man pretended to think of the State
Practised successfully the talent of silence
Queen is entirely in the hands of Spain and the priests
Religion was made the strumpet of Political Ambition
Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of any substantial
Stroke of a broken table knife sharpened on a carriage
wheel
The assassin, tortured and torn by four horses
They have killed him, ‘e ammazato,’ cried
Concini
Things he could tell which are too odious and dreadful
Uncouple the dogs and let them run
Vows of an eternal friendship of several weeks’
duration
What could save the House of Austria, the cause of
Papacy
Wrath of the Jesuits at this exercise of legal authority
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Advanced orthodox party—(Puritans)
Atheist, a tyrant, because he resisted dictation from
the clergy
Give him advice if he asked it, and money when he
required
He was not imperial of aspect on canvas or coin
He who would have all may easily lose all
King’s definite and final intentions, varied
from day to day
Neither kings nor governments are apt to value logic
Outdoing himself in dogmatism and inconsistency
Small matter which human folly had dilated into a
great one
The defence of the civil authority against the priesthood
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Aristocracy of God’s elect
Determined to bring the very name of liberty into
contempt
Disputing the eternal damnation of young children
Fate, free will, or absolute foreknowledge
Louis XIII.
No man can be neutral in civil contentions
No synod had a right to claim Netherlanders as slaves
Philip IV.
Priests shall control the state or the state govern
the priests
Schism in the Church had become a public fact
That cynical commerce in human lives
The voice of slanderers
Theological hatred was in full blaze throughout the
country
Theology and politics were one
To look down upon their inferior and lost fellow creatures
Whether dead infants were hopelessly damned
Whether repentance could effect salvation
Whose mutual hatred was now artfully inflamed by partisans
Work of the aforesaid Puritans and a few Jesuits
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Almost infinite power of the meanest of passions
Ludicrous gravity
Safest citadel against an invader and a tyrant is
distrust
Their own roofs were not quite yet in a blaze
Therefore now denounced the man whom he had injured
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Abstinence from inquisition into consciences and private
parlour
Advanced orthodox party-Puritans
Allowed the demon of religious hatred to enter into
its body
Almost infinite power of the meanest of passions
And now the knife of another priest-led fanatic
Aristocracy of God’s elect
As with his own people, keeping no back-door open
At a blow decapitated France
Atheist, a tyrant, because he resisted dictation from
the clergy
Behead, torture, burn alive, and bury alive all heretics
Christian sympathy and a small assistance not being
sufficient
Conclusive victory for the allies seemed as predestined
Contained within itself the germs of a larger liberty
Could not be both judge and party in the suit
Covered now with the satirical dust of centuries
Deadly hatred of Puritans in England and Holland
Determined to bring the very name of liberty into
contempt
Disputing the eternal damnation of young children
Doctrine of predestination in its sternest and strictest
sense
Emperor of Japan addressed him as his brother monarch
Epernon, the true murderer of Henry
Estimating his character and judging his judges
Everybody should mind his own business
Fate, free will, or absolute foreknowledge
Father Cotton, who was only too ready to betray the
secrets
Give him advice if he asked it, and money when he
required
Great war of religion and politics was postponed
He was not imperial of aspect on canvas or coin
He was a sincere bigot
He who would have all may easily lose all
He who spreads the snare always tumbles into the ditch
himself
Impatience is often on the part of the non-combatants
Intense bigotry of conviction
International friendship, the self-interest of each
It was the true religion, and there was none other
James of England, who admired, envied, and hated Henry
Jealousy, that potent principle
Jesuit Mariana—justifying the killing of
excommunicated kings
King’s definite and final intentions, varied
from day to day
Language which is ever living because it is dead
Louis XIII.
Ludicrous gravity
More fiercely opposed to each other than to Papists
Most detestable verses that even he had ever composed
Neither kings nor governments are apt to value logic
No man can be neutral in civil contentions
No synod had a right to claim Netherlanders as slaves
No man pretended to think of the State
None but God to compel me to say more than I choose
to say
Outdoing himself in dogmatism and inconsistency
Philip IV.
Power the poison of which it is so difficult to resist
Practised successfully the talent of silence
Presents of considerable sums of money to the negotiators
made
Priests shall control the state or the state govern
the priests
Princes show what they have in them at twenty-five
or never
Putting the cart before the oxen
Queen is entirely in the hands of Spain and the priests
Page 51
Religion was made the strumpet of Political Ambition
Religious toleration, which is a phrase of insult
Safest citadel against an invader and a tyrant is
distrust
Schism in the Church had become a public fact
Secure the prizes of war without the troubles and
dangers
Senectus edam maorbus est
She declined to be his procuress
Small matter which human folly had dilated into a
great one
Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of any substantial
So much in advance of his time as to favor religious
equality
Stroke of a broken table knife sharpened on a carriage
wheel
That cynical commerce in human lives
The defence of the civil authority against the priesthood
The assassin, tortured and torn by four horses
The truth in shortest about matters of importance
The voice of slanderers
The Catholic League and the Protestant Union
The vehicle is often prized more than the freight
Their own roofs were not quite yet in a blaze
Theological hatred was in full blaze throughout the
country
Theology and politics were one
There was no use in holding language of authority
to him
There was but one king in Europe, Henry the Bearnese
Therefore now denounced the man whom he had injured
They have killed him, ‘e ammazato,’ cried
Concini
Things he could tell which are too odious and dreadful
Thirty Years’ War tread on the heels of the
forty years
To look down upon their inferior and lost fellow creatures
Uncouple the dogs and let them run
Unimaginable outrage as the most legitimate industry
Vows of an eternal friendship of several weeks’
duration
What could save the House of Austria, the cause of
Papacy
Whether repentance could effect salvation
Whether dead infants were hopelessly damned
Whose mutual hatred was now artfully inflamed by partisans
Wish to appear learned in matters of which they are
ignorant
Work of the aforesaid Puritans and a few Jesuits
Wrath of the Jesuits at this exercise of legal authority
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1614-17 by Motley[#93][jm93v10.txt]4893
And give advice. Of that, although always a
spendthrift
Casual outbursts of eternal friendship
Changed his positions and contradicted himself day
by day
Conciliation when war of extermination was intended
Considered it his special mission in the world to
mediate
Denoungced as an obstacle to peace
France was mourning Henry and waiting for Richelieu
Hardly a sound Protestant policy anywhere but in Holland
History has not too many really important and emblematic
men
I hope and I fear
King who thought it furious madness to resist the
enemy
Mockery of negotiation in which nothing could be negotiated
More apprehension of fraud than of force
Opening an abyss between government and people
Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones
That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice
The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign’s
littleness
This wonderful sovereign’s littleness oppresses
the imagination
Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow
Page 52
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1617 by Motley[#94][jm94v10.txt]4894
Acts of violence which under pretext of religion
Adulation for inferiors whom they despise
Calumny is often a stronger and more lasting power
than disdain
Created one child for damnation and another for salvation
Depths of credulity men in all ages can sink
Devote himself to his gout and to his fair young wife
Furious mob set upon the house of Rem Bischop
Highborn demagogues in that as in every age affect
adulation
In this he was much behind his age or before it
Logic is rarely the quality on which kings pride themselves
Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns
Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to
bed
Partisans wanted not accommodation but victory
Puritanism in Holland was a very different thing from
England
Seemed bent on self-destruction
Stand between hope and fear
The evils resulting from a confederate system of government
To stifle for ever the right of free enquiry
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1618 by Motley[#95][jm95v10.txt]4895
Affection of his friends and the wrath of his enemies
Depths theological party spirit could descend
Extraordinary capacity for yielding to gentle violence
Human nature in its meanness and shame
It had not yet occurred to him that he was married
Make the very name of man a term of reproach
Never lack of fishers in troubled waters
Opposed the subjection of the magistracy by the priesthood
Pot-valiant hero
Resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military
Tempest of passion and prejudice
The effect of energetic, uncompromising calumny
Yes, there are wicked men about
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1618-19 by Motley[#96][jm96v10.txt]4896
Better to be governed by magistrates than mobs
Burning with bitter revenge for all the favours he
had received
Death rather than life with a false acknowledgment
of guilt
Enemy of all compulsion of the human conscience
Heidelberg Catechism were declared to be infallible
I know how to console myself
Implication there was much, of assertion very little
John Robinson
Magistracy at that moment seemed to mean the sword
Only true religion
Rather a wilderness to reign over than a single heretic
William Brewster
LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1619-23 by Motley[#97][jm97v10.txt]4897
Argument in a circle
He that stands let him see that he does not fall
If he has deserved it, let them strike off his head
Misery had come not from their being enemies
O God! what does man come to!
Party hatred was not yet glutted with the blood it
had drunk
Rose superior to his doom and took captivity captive
This, then, is the reward of forty years’ service
to the State
To milk, the cow as long as she would give milk
Page 53
ENTIRE 1614-23 JOHN OF BARNEVELD, by Motley [#98][jm98v10.txt]4898
Acts of violence which under pretext of religion
Adulation for inferiors whom they despise
Affection of his friends and the wrath of his enemies
And give advice. Of that, although always a
spendthrift
Argument in a circle
Better to be governed by magistrates than mobs
Burning with bitter revenge for all the favours he
had received
Calumny is often a stronger and more lasting power
than disdain
Casual outbursts of eternal friendship
Changed his positions and contradicted himself day
by day
Conciliation when war of extermination was intended
Considered it his special mission in the world to
mediate
Created one child for damnation and another for salvation
Death rather than life with a false acknowledgment
of guilt
Denoungced as an obstacle to peace
Depths theological party spirit could descend
Depths of credulity men in all ages can sink
Devote himself to his gout and to his fair young wife
Enemy of all compulsion of the human conscience
Extraordinary capacity for yielding to gentle violence
France was mourning Henry and waiting for Richelieu
Furious mob set upon the house of Rem Bischop
Hardly a sound Protestant policy anywhere but in Holland
He that stands let him see that he does not fall
Heidelberg Catechism were declared to be infallible
Highborn demagogues in that as in every age affect
adulation
History has not too many really important and emblematic
men
Human nature in its meanness and shame
I hope and I fear
I know how to console myself
If he has deserved it, let them strike off his head
Implication there was much, of assertion very little
In this he was much behind his age or before it
It had not yet occurred to him that he was married
John Robinson
King who thought it furious madness to resist the
enemy
Logic is rarely the quality on which kings pride themselves
Magistracy at that moment seemed to mean the sword
Make the very name of man a term of reproach
Misery had come not from their being enemies
Mockery of negotiation in which nothing could be negotiated
More apprehension of fraud than of force
Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns
Never lack of fishers in troubled waters
Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to
bed
O God! what does man come to!
Only true religion
Opening an abyss between government and people
Opposed the subjection of the magistracy by the priesthood
Partisans wanted not accommodation but victory
Party hatred was not yet glutted with the blood it
had drunk
Pot-valiant hero
Puritanism in Holland was a very different thing from
England
Rather a wilderness to reign over than a single heretic
Resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military
Rose superior to his doom and took captivity captive
Page 54
Seemed bent on self-destruction
Stand between hope and fear
Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones
Tempest of passion and prejudice
That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice
The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign’s
littleness
The effect of energetic, uncompromising calumny
The evils resulting from a confederate system of government
This, then, is the reward of forty years’ service
to the State
This wonderful sovereign’s littleness oppresses
the imagination
To milk, the cow as long as she would give milk
To stifle for ever the right of free enquiry
William Brewster
Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome
Yes, there are wicked men about
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow
ENTIRE 1609-23 JOHN OF BARNEVELD, by Motley [#99][jm99v10.txt]4899
Abstinence from inquisition into consciences and private
parlour
Acts of violence which under pretext of religion
Adulation for inferiors whom they despise
Advanced orthodox party-Puritans
Affection of his friends and the wrath of his enemies
Allowed the demon of religious hatred to enter into
its body
Almost infinite power of the meanest of passions
And give advice. Of that, although always a
spendthrift
And now the knife of another priest-led fanatic
Argument in a circle
Aristocracy of God’s elect
As with his own people, keeping no back-door open
At a blow decapitated France
Atheist, a tyrant, because he resisted dictation from
the clergy
Behead, torture, burn alive, and bury alive all heretics
Better to be governed by magistrates than mobs
Burning with bitter revenge for all the favours he
had received
Calumny is often a stronger and more lasting power
than disdain
Casual outbursts of eternal friendship
Changed his positions and contradicted himself day
by day
Christian sympathy and a small assistance not being
sufficient
Conciliation when war of extermination was intended
Conclusive victory for the allies seemed as predestined
Considered it his special mission in the world to
mediate
Contained within itself the germs of a larger liberty
Could not be both judge and party in the suit
Covered now with the satirical dust of centuries
Created one child for damnation and another for salvation
Deadly hatred of Puritans in England and Holland
Death rather than life with a false acknowledgment
of guilt
Denoungced as an obstacle to peace
Depths of credulity men in all ages can sink
Depths theological party spirit could descend
Determined to bring the very name of liberty into
contempt
Devote himself to his gout and to his fair young wife
Disputing the eternal damnation of young children
Doctrine of predestination in its sternest and strictest
sense
Emperor of Japan addressed him as his brother monarch
Page 55
Enemy of all compulsion of the human conscience
Epernon, the true murderer of Henry
Estimating his character and judging his judges
Everybody should mind his own business
Extraordinary capacity for yielding to gentle violence
Fate, free will, or absolute foreknowledge
Father Cotton, who was only too ready to betray the
secrets
France was mourning Henry and waiting for Richelieu
Furious mob set upon the house of Rem Bischop
Give him advice if he asked it, and money when he
required
Great war of religion and politics was postponed
Hardly a sound Protestant policy anywhere but in Holland
He was not imperial of aspect on canvas or coin
He who would have all may easily lose all
He who spreads the snare always tumbles into the ditch
himself
He was a sincere bigot
He that stands let him see that he does not fall
Heidelberg Catechism were declared to be infallible
Highborn demagogues in that as in every age affect
adulation
History has not too many really important and emblematic
men
Human nature in its meanness and shame
I know how to console myself
I hope and I fear
If he has deserved it, let them strike off his head
Impatience is often on the part of the non-combatants
Implication there was much, of assertion very little
In this he was much behind his age or before it
Intense bigotry of conviction
International friendship, the self-interest of each
It had not yet occurred to him that he was married
It was the true religion, and there was none other
James of England, who admired, envied, and hated Henry
Jealousy, that potent principle
Jesuit Mariana—justifying the killing of
excommunicated kings
John Robinson
King who thought it furious madness to resist the
enemy
King’s definite and final intentions, varied
from day to day
Language which is ever living because it is dead
Logic is rarely the quality on which kings pride themselves
Louis XIII.
Ludicrous gravity
Magistracy at that moment seemed to mean the sword
Make the very name of man a term of reproach
Misery had come not from their being enemies
Mockery of negotiation in which nothing could be negotiated
More apprehension of fraud than of force
More fiercely opposed to each other than to Papists
Most detestable verses that even he had ever composed
Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns
Neither kings nor governments are apt to value logic
Never lack of fishers in troubled waters
No man pretended to think of the State
No man can be neutral in civil contentions
No synod had a right to claim Netherlanders as slaves
None but God to compel me to say more than I choose
to say
Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to
bed
O God! what does man come to!
Only true religion
Opening an abyss between government and people
Opposed the subjection of the magistracy by the priesthood
Page 56
Outdoing himself in dogmatism and inconsistency
Partisans wanted not accommodation but victory
Party hatred was not yet glutted with the blood it
had drunk
Philip IV.
Pot-valiant hero
Power the poison of which it is so difficult to resist
Practised successfully the talent of silence
Presents of considerable sums of money to the negotiators
made
Priests shall control the state or the state govern
the priests
Princes show what they have in them at twenty-five
or never
Puritanism in Holland was a very different thing from
England
Putting the cart before the oxen
Queen is entirely in the hands of Spain and the priests
Rather a wilderness to reign over than a single heretic
Religion was made the strumpet of Political Ambition
Religious toleration, which is a phrase of insult
Resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military
Rose superior to his doom and took captivity captive
Safest citadel against an invader and a tyrant is
distrust
Schism in the Church had become a public fact
Secure the prizes of war without the troubles and
dangers
Seemed bent on self-destruction
Senectus edam maorbus est
She declined to be his procuress
Small matter which human folly had dilated into a
great one
Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of any substantial
So much in advance of his time as to favor religious
equality
Stand between hope and fear
Stroke of a broken table knife sharpened on a carriage
wheel
Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones
Tempest of passion and prejudice
That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice
That cynical commerce in human lives
The effect of energetic, uncompromising calumny
The evils resulting from a confederate system of government
The vehicle is often prized more than the freight
The voice of slanderers
The truth in shortest about matters of importance
The assassin, tortured and torn by four horses
The defence of the civil authority against the priesthood
The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign’s
littleness
The Catholic League and the Protestant Union
Their own roofs were not quite yet in a blaze
Theological hatred was in full blaze throughout the
country
Theology and politics were one
There was no use in holding language of authority
to him
There was but one king in Europe, Henry the Bearnese
Therefore now denounced the man whom he had injured
They have killed him, ‘e ammazato,’ cried
Concini
Things he could tell which are too odious and dreadful
Thirty Years’ War tread on the heels of the
forty years
This wonderful sovereign’s littleness oppresses
the imagination
This, then, is the reward of forty years’ service
to the State
To milk, the cow as long as she would give milk
To stifle for ever the right of free enquiry
To look down upon their inferior and lost fellow creatures
Uncouple the dogs and let them run
Page 57
Unimaginable outrage as the most legitimate industry
Vows of an eternal friendship of several weeks’
duration
What could save the House of Austria, the cause of
Papacy
Whether repentance could effect salvation
Whether dead infants were hopelessly damned
Whose mutual hatred was now artfully inflamed by partisans
William Brewster
Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome
Wish to appear learned in matters of which they are
ignorant
Work of the aforesaid Puritans and a few Jesuits
Wrath of the Jesuits at this exercise of legal authority
Yes, there are wicked men about
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow
MEMOIR OF JOHN L. MOTLEY, V1, O.W. HOLMES [OWH#11][oh11v10.txt]4725
All classes are conservative by necessity
Already looking forward to the revolt of the slave
States
Attacked by the poetic mania
Becoming more learned, and therefore more ignorant
But not thoughtlessly indulgent to the boy
Cold water of conventional and commonplace encouragement
Could paint a character with the ruddy life-blood
coloring
Emulation is not capability
Excused by their admirers for their shortcomings
Excuses to disarm the criticism he had some reason
to fear
Fear of the laugh of the world at its sincerity
Fitted “To warn, to comfort, and command”
How many more injured by becoming bad copies of a
bad ideal
Ignoble facts which strew the highways of political
life
Indoor home life imprisons them in the domestic circle
Intellectual dandyisms of Bulwer
Kindly shadow of oblivion
Misanthropical, sceptical philosopher
Most entirely truthful child whe had ever seen
Nearsighted liberalism
No two books, as he said, ever injured each other
Not a single acquaintance in the place, and we glory
in the fact
Only foundation fit for history,—original
contemporary document
Radical, one who would uproot, is a man whose trade
is dangerous
Sees the past in the pitiless light of the present
Self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy
Solitary and morose, the necessary consequence of
reckless study
Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud of his country
Studied according to his inclinations rather than
by rule
Style above all other qualities seems to embalm for
posterity
Talked impatiently of the value of my time
The dead men of the place are my intimate friends
The fellow mixes blood with his colors!
The loss of hair, which brings on premature decay
The personal gifts which are nature’s passport
everywhere
Twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed
under him
Vain belief that they were men at eighteen or twenty
Weight of a thousand years of error
MEMOIR OF JOHN L. MOTLEY, V2, O.W. HOLMES [OWH#12][oh12v10.txt]4726
Page 58
A great historian is almost a statesman
Admired or despised, as if he or she were our contemporary
Alas! one never knows when one becomes a bore
American Unholy Inquisition
best defence in this case is little better than an
impeachment
But after all this isn’t a war It is a revolution
Can never be repaired and never sufficiently regretted
Considerations of state as a reason
Considerations of state have never yet failed the
axe
Everything else may happen This alone must happen
Fortune’s buffets and rewards can take with
equal thanks
He was not always careful in the construction of his
sentences
In revolutions the men who win are those who are in
earnest
Irresistible force in collision with an insuperable
resistance
It is n’t strategists that are wanted so much
as believers
John Quincy Adams
Manner in which an insult shall be dealt with
Motley was twice sacrificed to personal feelings
No man is safe (from news reporters)
Our mortal life is but a string of guesses at the
future
Played so long with other men’s characters and
good name
Progress should be by a spiral movement
Public which must have a slain reputation to devour
Reasonable to pay our debts rather than to repudiate
them
Recall of a foreign minister for alleged misconduct
in office
Shall Slavery die, or the great Republic?
Suicide is confession
The nation is as much bound to be honest as is the
individual
This Somebody may have been one whom we should call
Nobody
Unequivocal policy of slave emancipation
Wringing a dry cloth for drops of evidence
MEMOIR OF JOHN L. MOTLEY, V3, O.W. HOLMES [OWH#13][oh13v10.txt]4727
An order of things in which mediocrity is at a premium
Better is the restlessness of a noble ambition
Blessed freedom from speech-making
Flattery is a sweet and intoxicating potion
Forget those who have done them good service
His dogged, continuous capacity for work
His learning was a reproach to the ignorant
History never forgets and never forgives
Mediocrity is at a premium
No great man can reach the highest position in our
government
Over excited, when his prejudices were roughly handled
Plain enough that he is telling his own story
Republics are said to be ungrateful
They knew very little of us, and that little wrong
Visible atmosphere of power the poison of which
Wonders whether it has found its harbor or only lost
its anchor
Memoir of John L. Motley, all,
O.W. Holmes [OWH#14][oh14v10.txt]4728
Page 59
A great historian is almost a statesman
Admired or despised, as if he or she were our contemporary
Alas! one never knows when one becomes a bore
All classes are conservative by necessity
Already looking forward to the revolt of the slave
States
American Unholy Inquisition
An order of things in which mediocrity is at a premium
Attacked by the poetic mania
Becoming more learned, and therefore more ignorant
best defence in this case is little better than an
impeachment
Better is the restlessness of a noble ambition
Blessed freedom from speech-making
But not thoughtlessly indulgent to the boy
But after all this isn’t a war It is a revolution
Can never be repaired and never sufficiently regretted
Cold water of conventional and commonplace encouragement
Considerations of state have never yet failed the
axe
Considerations of state as a reason
Could paint a character with the ruddy life-blood
coloring
Emulation is not capability
Everything else may happen This alone must happen
Excused by their admirers for their shortcomings
Excuses to disarm the criticism he had some reason
to fear
Fear of the laugh of the world at its sincerity
Fitted “To warn, to comfort, and command”
Flattery is a sweet and intoxicating potion
Forget those who have done them good service
Fortune’s buffets and rewards can take with
equal thanks
He was not always careful in the construction of his
sentences
His learning was a reproach to the ignorant
His dogged, continuous capacity for work
History never forgets and never forgives
How many more injured by becoming bad copies of a
bad ideal
Ignoble facts which strew the highways of political
life
In revolutions the men who win are those who are in
earnest
Indoor home life imprisons them in the domestic circle
Intellectual dandyisms of Bulwer
Irresistible force in collision with an insuperable
resistance
It is n’t strategists that are wanted so much
as believers
John Quincy Adams
Kindly shadow of oblivion
Manner in which an insult shall be dealt with
Mediocrity is at a premium
Misanthropical, sceptical philosopher
Most entirely truthful child whe had ever seen
Motley was twice sacrificed to personal feelings
Nearsighted liberalism
No great man can reach the highest position in our
government
No two books, as he said, ever injured each other
No man is safe (from news reporters)
Not a single acquaintance in the place, and we glory
in the fact
Only foundation fit for history,—original
contemporary document
Our mortal life is but a string of guesses at the
future
Over excited, when his prejudices were roughly handled
Plain enough that he is telling his own story
Played so long with other men’s characters and
good name
Progress should be by a spiral movement
Public which must have a slain reputation to devour
Page 60
Radical, one who would uproot, is a man whose trade
is dangerous
Reasonable to pay our debts rather than to repudiate
them
Recall of a foreign minister for alleged misconduct
in office
Republics are said to be ungrateful
Sees the past in the pitiless light of the present
Self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy
Shall Slavery die, or the great Republic?
Solitary and morose, the necessary consequence of
reckless study
Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud of his country
Studied according to his inclinations rather than
by rule
Style above all other qualities seems to embalm for
posterity
Suicide is confession
Talked impatiently of the value of my time
The fellow mixes blood with his colors!
The loss of hair, which brings on premature decay
The personal gifts which are nature’s passport
everywhere
The nation is as much bound to be honest as is the
individual
The dead men of the place are my intimate friends
They knew very little of us, and that little wrong
This Somebody may have been one whom we should call
Nobody
Twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed
under him
Unequivocal policy of slave emancipation
Vain belief that they were men at eighteen or twenty
Visible atmosphere of power the poison of which
Weight of a thousand years of error
Wonders whether it has found its harbor or only lost
its anchor
Wringing a dry cloth for drops of evidence
1566, the last year of peace
A pleasantry called voluntary contributions or benevolences
A good lawyer is a bad Christian
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman
A common hatred united them, for a time at least
A penal offence in the republic to talk of peace or
of truce
A most fatal success
A country disinherited by nature of its rights
A free commonwealth—was thought an absurdity
A hard bargain when both parties are losers
A burnt cat fears the fire
A despot really keeps no accounts, nor need to do
so
A sovereign remedy for the disease of liberty
A pusillanimous peace, always possible at any period
A man incapable of fatigue, of perplexity, or of fear
A truce he honestly considered a pitfall of destruction
A great historian is almost a statesman
Able men should be by design and of purpose suppressed
About equal to that of England at the same period
Absolution for incest was afforded at thirty-six livres
Abstinence from unproductive consumption
Abstinence from inquisition into consciences and private
parlour
Absurd affectation of candor
Accepting a new tyrant in place of the one so long
ago deposed
Accustomed to the faded gallantries
Achieved the greatness to which they had not been
Page 61
born
Act of Uniformity required Papists to assist
Acts of violence which under pretext of religion
Admired or despised, as if he or she were our contemporary
Adulation for inferiors whom they despise
Advanced orthodox party-Puritans
Advancing age diminished his tendency to other carnal
pleasures
Advised his Majesty to bestow an annual bribe upon
Lord Burleigh
Affecting to discredit them
Affection of his friends and the wrath of his enemies
Age when toleration was a vice
Agreements were valid only until he should repent
Alas! the benighted victims of superstition hugged
their chains
Alas! we must always have something to persecute
Alas! one never knows when one becomes a bore
Alexander’s exuberant discretion
All Italy was in his hands
All fellow-worms together
All business has been transacted with open doors
All reading of the scriptures (forbidden)
All the majesty which decoration could impart
All denounced the image-breaking
All claimed the privilege of persecuting
All his disciples and converts are to be punished
with death
All Protestants were beheaded, burned, or buried alive
All classes are conservative by necessity
All the ministers and great functionaries received
presents
All offices were sold to the highest bidder
Allow her to seek a profit from his misfortune
Allowed the demon of religious hatred to enter into
its body
Almost infinite power of the meanest of passions
Already looking forward to the revolt of the slave
States
Altercation between Luther and Erasmus, upon predestination
Always less apt to complain of irrevocable events
American Unholy Inquisition
Amuse them with this peace negotiation
An inspiring and delightful recreation (auto-da-fe)
An hereditary papacy, a perpetual pope-emperor
An age when to think was a crime
An unjust God, himself the origin of sin
An order of things in which mediocrity is at a premium
Anarchy which was deemed inseparable from a non-regal
form
Anatomical study of what has ceased to exist
And give advice. Of that, although always a
spendthrift
And now the knife of another priest-led fanatic
And thus this gentle and heroic spirit took its flight
Angle with their dissimulation as with a hook
Announced his approaching marriage with the Virgin
Mary
Annual harvest of iniquity by which his revenue was
increased
Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the senators did nothing
at all
Are apt to discharge such obligations—(by)
ingratitude
Are wont to hang their piety on the bell-rope
Argument in a circle
Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise
begins
Aristocracy of God’s elect
Arminianism
Arrested on suspicion, tortured till confession
Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not
avail them
Artillery
As logical as men in their cups are prone to be
As the old woman had told the Emperor Adrian
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As if they were free will not make them free
As lieve see the Spanish as the Calvinistic inquisition
As ready as papists, with age, fagot, and excommunication
As with his own people, keeping no back-door open
As neat a deception by telling the truth
At a blow decapitated France
At length the twig was becoming the tree
Atheist, a tyrant, because he resisted dictation from
the clergy
Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised
religion
Attacked by the poetic mania
Attacking the authority of the pope
Attempting to swim in two waters
Auction sales of judicial ermine
Baiting his hook a little to his appetite
Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon
Batavian legion was the imperial body guard
Beacons in the upward path of mankind
Beating the Netherlanders into Christianity
Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not lack suitors
Because he had been successful (hated)
Becoming more learned, and therefore more ignorant
Been already crimination and recrimination more than
enough
Before morning they had sacked thirty churches
Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand
Beggars of the sea, as these privateersmen designated
themselves
Behead, torture, burn alive, and bury alive all heretics
Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies
Believed in the blessed advent of peace
Beneficent and charitable purposes (War)
best defence in this case is little better than an
impeachment
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
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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
Considerations of state have never yet failed the
axe
Considerations of state as a reason
Considered it his special mission in the world to
mediate
Consign to the flames all prisoners whatever (Papal
letter)
Constant vigilance is the price of liberty
Constitute themselves at once universal legatees
Constitutional governments, move in the daylight
Consumer would pay the tax, supposing it were ever
paid at all
Contained within itself the germs of a larger liberty
Contempt for treaties however solemnly ratified
Continuing to believe himself invincible and infallible
Converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling
Could handle an argument as well as a sword
Could paint a character with the ruddy life-blood
coloring
Could not be both judge and party in the suit
Could do a little more than what was possible
Country would bear his loss with fortitude
Courage of despair inflamed the French
Courage and semblance of cheerfulness, with despair
in his heart
Court fatigue, to scorn pleasure
Covered now with the satirical dust of centuries
Craft meaning, simply, strength
Created one child for damnation and another for salvation
Crescents in their caps: Rather Turkish than
Popish
Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could
imagine
Criminal whose guilt had been established by the hot
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iron
Criminals buying Paradise for money
Cruelties exercised upon monks and papists
Crusades made great improvement in the condition of
the serfs
Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence
Customary oaths, to be kept with the customary conscientiousness
Daily widening schism between Lutherans and Calvinists
Deadliest of sins, the liberty of conscience
Deadly hatred of Puritans in England and Holland
Deal with his enemy as if sure to become his friend
Death rather than life with a false acknowledgment
of guilt
Decline a bribe or interfere with the private sale
of places
Decrees for burning, strangling, and burying alive
Deeply criminal in the eyes of all religious parties
Defeated garrison ever deserved more respect from
friend or foe
Defect of enjoying the flattery, of his inferiors
in station
Delay often fights better than an army against a foreign
invader
Demanding peace and bread at any price
Democratic instincts of the ancient German savages
Denies the utility of prayers for the dead
Denoungced as an obstacle to peace
Depths theological party spirit could descend
Depths of credulity men in all ages can sink
Despised those who were grateful
Despot by birth and inclination (Charles V.)
Determined to bring the very name of liberty into
contempt
Devote himself to his gout and to his fair young wife
Difference between liberties and liberty
Difficult for one friend to advise another in three
matters
Diplomacy of Spain and Rome—meant simply
dissimulation
Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly in the power
to deceive
Disciple of Simon Stevinus
Dismay of our friends and the gratification of our
enemies
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
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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
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
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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
Great Privilege, the Magna Charta of Holland
Great error of despising their enemy
Great war of religion and politics was postponed
Great battles often leave the world where they found
it
Guarantees of forgiveness for every imaginable sin
Guilty of no other crime than adhesion to the Catholic
faith
Habeas corpus
Had industry been honoured instead of being despised
Haereticis non servanda fides
Hair and beard unshorn, according to ancient Batavian
custom
Halcyon days of ban, book and candle
Hanged for having eaten meat-soup upon Friday
Hanging of Mary Dyer at Boston
Hangman is not the most appropriate teacher of religion
Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror
Hard at work, pouring sand through their sieves
Hardly a distinguished family in Spain not placed
in mourning
Hardly a sound Protestant policy anywhere but in Holland
Hardly an inch of French soil that had not two possessors
Having conjugated his paradigm conscientiously
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He had omitted to execute heretics
He did his best to be friends with all the world
He was a sincere bigot
He that stands let him see that he does not fall
He was not always careful in the construction of his
sentences
He would have no persecution of the opposite creed
He came as a conqueror not as a mediator
He who spreads the snare always tumbles into the ditch
himself
He who would have all may easily lose all
He knew men, especially he knew their weaknesses
He had never enjoyed social converse, except at long
intervals
He would have no Calvinist inquisition set up in its
place
He who confessed well was absolved well
He did his work, but he had not his reward
He sat a great while at a time. He had a genius
for sitting
He was not imperial of aspect on canvas or coin
He often spoke of popular rights with contempt
He spent more time at table than the Bearnese in sleep
Heidelberg Catechism were declared to be infallible
Henry the Huguenot as the champion of the Council
of Trent
Her teeth black, her bosom white and liberally exposed
(Eliz.)
Heresy was a plant of early growth in the Netherlands
Heretics to the English Church were persecuted
Hibernian mode of expressing himself
High officers were doing the work of private, soldiers
Highborn demagogues in that as in every age affect
adulation
Highest were not necessarily the least slimy
His inordinate arrogance
His own past triumphs seemed now his greatest enemies
His imagination may have assisted his memory in the
task
His insolence intolerable
His learning was a reproach to the ignorant
His invectives were, however, much stronger than his
arguments
His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank
of virtues
His dogged, continuous capacity for work
Historical scepticism may shut its eyes to evidence
History is a continuous whole of which we see only
fragments
History is but made up of a few scattered fragments
History never forgets and never forgives
History has not too many really important and emblematic
men
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper
Holland was afraid to give a part, although offering
the whole
Holland, England, and America, are all links of one
chain
Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands
Holy institution called the Inquisition
Honor good patriots, and to support them in venial
errors
Hope delayed was but a cold and meagre consolation
Hope deferred, suddenly changing to despair
How many more injured by becoming bad copies of a
bad ideal
Hugo Grotius
Human nature in its meanness and shame
Human ingenuity to inflict human misery
Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds)
Humanizing effect of science upon the barbarism of
war
Humble ignorance as the safest creed
Humility which was but the cloak to his pride
Hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by
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her decree
I did never see any man behave himself as he did
I know how to console myself
I am a king that will be ever known not to fear any
but God
I hope and I fear
I would carry the wood to burn my own son withal
I regard my country’s profit, not my own
I will never live, to see the end of my poverty
Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations
Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation
Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging, filching vagabonds
If he had little, he could live upon little
If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good
to do
If he has deserved it, let them strike off his head
Ignoble facts which strew the highways of political
life
Ignorance is the real enslaver of mankind
Imagined, and did the work of truth
Imagining that they held the world’s destiny
in their hands
Impatience is often on the part of the non-combatants
Implication there was much, of assertion very little
Imposed upon the multitudes, with whom words were
things
Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed
brains
Impossible it was to invent terms of adulation too
gross
In revolutions the men who win are those who are in
earnest
In character and general talents he was beneath mediocrity
In times of civil war, to be neutral is to be nothing
In Holland, the clergy had neither influence nor seats
In this he was much behind his age or before it
Incur the risk of being charged with forwardness than
neglect
Indecision did the work of indolence
Indignant that heretics had been suffered to hang
Individuals walking in advance of their age
Indoor home life imprisons them in the domestic circle
Indulging them frequently with oracular advice
Inevitable fate of talking castles and listening ladies
Infamy of diplomacy, when diplomacy is unaccompanied
by honesty
Infinite capacity for pecuniary absorption
Informer, in case of conviction, should be entitled
to one half
Inhabited by the savage tribes called Samoyedes
Innocent generation, to atone for the sins of their
forefathers
Inquisition of the Netherlands is much more pitiless
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)
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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
Look through the cloud of dissimulation
Look for a sharp war, or a miserable peace
Looking down upon her struggle with benevolent indifference
Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns
Loud, nasal, dictatorial tone, not at all agreeable
Louis XIII.
Loving only the persons who flattered him
Ludicrous gravity
Luther’s axiom, that thoughts are toll-free
Lutheran princes of Germany, detested the doctrines
of Geneva
Luxury had blunted the fine instincts of patriotism
Made peace—and had been at war ever since
Made no breach in royal and Roman infallibility
Made to swing to and fro over a slow fire
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Magistracy at that moment seemed to mean the sword
Magnificent hopefulness
Maintaining the attitude of an injured but forgiving
Christian
Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you
Make the very name of man a term of reproach
Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom
Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign
Man had only natural wrongs (No natural rights)
Man had no rights at all He was property
Mankind were naturally inclined to calumny
Manner in which an insult shall be dealt with
Many greedy priests, of lower rank, had turned shop-keepers
Maritime heretics
Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for
Matters little by what name a government is called
Meantime the second civil war in France had broken
out
Mediocrity is at a premium
Meet around a green table except as fencers in the
field
Men were loud in reproof, who had been silent
Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity
Men who meant what they said and said what they meant
Mendacity may always obtain over innocence and credulity
Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause
Misanthropical, sceptical philosopher
Misery had come not from their being enemies
Mistake to stumble a second time over the same stone
Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into
sincerity
Mockery of negotiation in which nothing could be negotiated
Modern statesmanship, even while it practises, condemns
Monasteries, burned their invaluable libraries
Mondragon was now ninety-two years old
Moral nature, undergoes less change than might be
hoped
More accustomed to do well than to speak well
More easily, as he had no intention of keeping the
promise
More catholic than the pope
More fiercely opposed to each other than to Papists
More apprehension of fraud than of force
Most detestable verses that even he had ever composed
Most entirely truthful child whe had ever seen
Motley was twice sacrificed to personal feelings
Much as the blind or the deaf towards colour or music
Myself seeing of it methinketh that I dream
Names history has often found it convenient to mark
its epochs
National character, not the work of a few individuals
Nations tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery
Natural to judge only by the result
Natural tendency to suspicion of a timid man
Nearsighted liberalism
Necessary to make a virtue of necessity
Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch
Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns
Necessity of kingship
Negotiated as if they were all immortal
Neighbour’s blazing roof was likely soon to
fire their own
Neither kings nor governments are apt to value logic
Neither wished the convocation, while both affected
an eagerness
Neither ambitious nor greedy
Never peace well made, he observed, without a mighty
war
Never did statesmen know better how not to do
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Never lack of fishers in troubled waters
New Years Day in England, 11th January by the New
Style
Night brings counsel
Nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed
in on
No one can testify but a householder
No man can be neutral in civil contentions
No law but the law of the longest purse
No two books, as he said, ever injured each other
No retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs,
and buildings
No great man can reach the highest position in our
government
No man is safe (from news reporters)
No man could reveal secrets which he did not know
No authority over an army which they did not pay
No man pretended to think of the State
No synod had a right to claim Netherlanders as slaves
No qualities whatever but birth and audacity to recommend
him
No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest
No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly
No calumny was too senseless to be invented
None but God to compel me to say more than I choose
to say
Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence
Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained
facts
Not distinguished for their docility
Not to let the grass grow under their feet
Not a single acquaintance in the place, and we glory
in the fact
Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names
Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to
bed
Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep
nor crouch
Not strong enough to sustain many more such victories
Not to fall asleep in the shade of a peace negotiation
Not many more than two hundred Catholics were executed
Not upon words but upon actions
Not for a new doctrine, but for liberty of conscience
Not of the stuff of which martyrs are made (Erasmus)
Not so successful as he was picturesque
Nothing could equal Alexander’s fidelity, but
his perfidy
Nothing cheap, said a citizen bitterly, but sermons
Nothing was so powerful as religious difference
Notre Dame at Antwerp
Nowhere was the persecution of heretics more relentless
Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers
O God! what does man come to!
Obscure were thought capable of dying natural deaths
Obstinate, of both sexes, to be burned
Octogenarian was past work and past mischief
Of high rank but of lamentably low capacity
Often much tyranny in democracy
Often necessary to be blind and deaf
Oldenbarneveld; afterwards so illustrious
On the first day four thousand men and women were
slaughtered
One-half to Philip and one-half to the Pope and Venice
(slaves)
One-third of Philip’s effective navy was thus
destroyed
One golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude
One could neither cry nor laugh within the Spanish
dominions
One of the most contemptible and mischievous of kings
(James I)
Only healthy existence of the French was in a state
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of war
Only true religion
Only citadel against a tyrant and a conqueror was
distrust
Only kept alive by milk, which he drank from a woman’s
breast
Only foundation fit for history,—original
contemporary document
Opening an abyss between government and people
Opposed the subjection of the magistracy by the priesthood
Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren in facts
Orator was, however, delighted with his own performance
Others that do nothing, do all, and have all the thanks
Others go to battle, says the historian, these go
to war
Our pot had not gone to the fire as often
Our mortal life is but a string of guesses at the
future
Outdoing himself in dogmatism and inconsistency
Over excited, when his prejudices were roughly handled
Panegyrists of royal houses in the sixteenth century
Pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be
committed
Pardon for murder, if not by poison, was cheaper
Partisans wanted not accommodation but victory
Party hatred was not yet glutted with the blood it
had drunk
Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory
Past was once the Present, and once the Future
Pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn
Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea
Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands
of law
Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)
Paying their passage through, purgatory
Peace founded on the only secure basis, equality of
strength
Peace was desirable, it might be more dangerous than
war
Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war
Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous
estate
Peace-at-any-price party
Peace, in reality, was war in its worst shape
Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce
was inevitable
Peace would be destruction
Perfection of insolence
Perpetually dropping small innuendos like pebbles
Persons who discussed religious matters were to be
put to death
Petty passion for contemptible details
Philip II. gave the world work enough
Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable
Philip IV.
Philip, who did not often say a great deal in a few
words
Picturesqueness of crime
Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat
Plain enough that he is telling his own story
Planted the inquisition in the Netherlands
Played so long with other men’s characters and
good name
Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes
ridiculous
Plundering the country which they came to protect
Poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats
Pope excommunicated him as a heretic
Pope and emperor maintain both positions with equal
logic
Portion of these revenues savoured much of black-mail
Possible to do, only because we see that it has been
done
Pot-valiant hero
Power the poison of which it is so difficult to resist
Power to read and write helped the clergy to much
wealth
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Power grudged rather than given to the deputies
Practised successfully the talent of silence
Pray here for satiety, (said Cecil) than ever think
of variety
Preferred an open enemy to a treacherous protector
Premature zeal was prejudicial to the cause
Presents of considerable sums of money to the negotiators
made
Presumption in entitling themselves Christian
Preventing wrong, or violence, even towards an enemy
Priests shall control the state or the state govern
the priests
Princes show what they have in them at twenty-five
or never
Prisoners were immediately hanged
Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work
Proceeds of his permission to eat meat on Fridays
Proclaiming the virginity of the Virgin’s mother
Procrastination was always his first refuge
Progress should be by a spiral movement
Promises which he knew to be binding only upon the
weak
Proposition made by the wolves to the sheep, in the
fable
Protect the common tranquillity by blood, purse, and
life
Provided not one Huguenot be left alive in France
Public which must have a slain reputation to devour
Purchased absolution for crime and smoothed a pathway
to heaven
Puritanism in Holland was a very different thing from
England
Put all those to the torture out of whom anything
can be got
Putting the cart before the oxen
Queen is entirely in the hands of Spain and the priests
Questioning nothing, doubting nothing, fearing nothing
Quite mistaken: in supposing himself the Emperor’s
child
Radical, one who would uproot, is a man whose trade
is dangerous
Rarely able to command, having never learned to obey
Rashness alternating with hesitation
Rather a wilderness to reign over than a single heretic
Readiness to strike and bleed at any moment in her
cause
Readiness at any moment to defend dearly won liberties
Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers are to kneel
Reasonable to pay our debts rather than to repudiate
them
Rebuked him for his obedience
Rebuked the bigotry which had already grown
Recall of a foreign minister for alleged misconduct
in office
Reformer who becomes in his turn a bigot is doubly
odious
Reformers were capable of giving a lesson even to
inquisitors
Religion was made the strumpet of Political Ambition
Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the line of demarcation
Religion was not to be changed like a shirt
Religious toleration, which is a phrase of insult
Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants
Repentance, as usual, had come many hours too late
Repentant males to be executed with the sword
Repentant females to be buried alive
Repose under one despot guaranteed to them by two
others
Repose in the other world, “Repos ailleurs”
Republic, which lasted two centuries
Republics are said to be ungrateful
Repudiation of national debts was never heard of before
Requires less mention than Philip III himself
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Resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military
Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance
Respect for differences in religious opinions
Result was both to abandon the provinces and to offend
Philip
Revocable benefices or feuds
Rich enough to be worth robbing
Righteous to kill their own children
Road to Paris lay through the gates of Rome
Rose superior to his doom and took captivity captive
Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived
Royal plans should be enforced adequately or abandoned
entirely
Ruinous honors
Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns
Sacked and drowned ten infant princes
Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully obeying her
orders
Safest citadel against an invader and a tyrant is
distrust
Sages of every generation, read the future like a
printed scroll
Saint Bartholomew’s day
Sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes
to the priests
Same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind
Scaffold was the sole refuge from the rack
Scepticism, which delights in reversing the judgment
of centuries
Schism in the Church had become a public fact
Schism which existed in the general Reformed Church
Science of reigning was the science of lying
Scoffing at the ceremonies and sacraments of the Church
Secret drowning was substituted for public burning
Secure the prizes of war without the troubles and
dangers
Security is dangerous
Seeking protection for and against the people
Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous
Seemed bent on self-destruction
Seems but a change of masks, of costume, of phraseology
Sees the past in the pitiless light of the present
Self-assertion—the healthful but not engaging
attribute
Self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy
Selling the privilege of eating eggs upon fast-days
Senectus edam maorbus est
Sent them word by carrier pigeons
Sentiment of Christian self-complacency
Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal
Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their
knees
Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven thousand rebels
Sewers which have ever run beneath decorous Christendom
Shall Slavery die, or the great Republic?
Sharpened the punishment for reading the scriptures
in private
She relieth on a hope that will deceive her
She declined to be his procuress
She knew too well how women were treated in that country
Shift the mantle of religion from one shoulder to
the other
Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen
Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged
Sick and wounded wretches were burned over slow fires
Simple truth was highest skill
Sixteen of their best ships had been sacrificed
Slain four hundred and ten men with his own hand
Slavery was both voluntary and compulsory
Slender stock of platitudes
Small matter which human folly had dilated into a
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great one
Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of any substantial
So much responsibility and so little power
So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism)
So much in advance of his time as to favor religious
equality
So unconscious of her strength
Soldier of the cross was free upon his return
Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the
bad
Solitary and morose, the necessary consequence of
reckless study
Some rude lessons from that vigorous little commonwealth
Sometimes successful, even although founded upon sincerity
Sonnets of Petrarch
Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed of God
Spain was governed by an established terrorism
Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen
Sparing and war have no affinity together
Spendthrift of time, he was an economist of blood
Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud of his country
St. Peter’s dome rising a little nearer to the
clouds
St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven years longer
Stake or gallows (for) heretics to transubstantiation
Stand between hope and fear
State can best defend religion by letting it alone
States were justified in their almost unlimited distrust
Steeped to the lips in sloth which imagined itself
to be pride
Storm by which all these treasures were destroyed
(in 7 days)
Strangled his nineteen brothers on his accession
Strength does a falsehood acquire in determined and
skilful hand
String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza
Stroke of a broken table knife sharpened on a carriage
wheel
Studied according to his inclinations rather than
by rule
Style above all other qualities seems to embalm for
posterity
Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a
friend
Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill
Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones
Such a crime as this had never been conceived (bankruptcy)
Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation
Suicide is confession
Superfluous sarcasm
Suppress the exercise of the Roman religion
Sure bind, sure find
Sword in hand is the best pen to write the conditions
of peace
Take all their imaginations and extravagances for
truths
Talked impatiently of the value of my time
Tanchelyn
Taxation upon sin
Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent
Taxes upon income and upon consumption
Tempest of passion and prejudice
Ten thousand two hundred and twenty individuals were
burned
Tension now gave place to exhaustion
That vile and mischievous animal called the people
That crowned criminal, Philip the Second
That unholy trinity—Force; Dogma, and Ignorance
That cynical commerce in human lives
That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice
The tragedy of Don Carlos
The worst were encouraged with their good success
The history of the Netherlands is history of liberty
The great ocean was but a Spanish lake
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The divine speciality of a few transitory mortals
The sapling was to become the tree
The nation which deliberately carves itself in pieces
The expenses of James’s household
The Catholic League and the Protestant Union
The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels
The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign’s
littleness
The defence of the civil authority against the priesthood
The assassin, tortured and torn by four horses
The Gaul was singularly unchaste
The vivifying becomes afterwards the dissolving principle
The bad Duke of Burgundy, Philip surnamed “the
Good,”
The greatest crime, however, was to be rich
The more conclusive arbitration of gunpowder
The disunited provinces
The noblest and richest temple of the Netherlands
was a wreck
The voice of slanderers
The calf is fat and must be killed
The illness was a convenient one
The egg had been laid by Erasmus, hatched by Luther
The perpetual reproductions of history
The very word toleration was to sound like an insult
The most thriving branch of national industry (Smuggler)
The pigmy, as the late queen had been fond of nicknaming
him
The slightest theft was punished with the gallows
The art of ruling the world by doing nothing
The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs
of war
The Alcoran was less cruel than the Inquisition
The People had not been invented
The small children diminished rapidly in numbers
The busy devil of petty economy
The record of our race is essentially unwritten
The truth in shortest about matters of importance
The time for reasoning had passed
The effect of energetic, uncompromising calumny
The evils resulting from a confederate system of government
The vehicle is often prized more than the freight
The faithful servant is always a perpetual ass
The dead men of the place are my intimate friends
The loss of hair, which brings on premature decay
The personal gifts which are nature’s passport
everywhere
The nation is as much bound to be honest as is the
individual
The fellow mixes blood with his colors!
Their existence depended on war
Their own roofs were not quite yet in a blaze
Theological hatred was in full blaze throughout the
country
Theology and politics were one
There is no man who does not desire to enjoy his own
There was but one king in Europe, Henry the Bearnese
There are few inventions in morals
There was no use in holding language of authority
to him
There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm
There is no man fitter for that purpose than myself
Therefore now denounced the man whom he had injured
These human victims, chained and burning at the stake
They had come to disbelieve in the mystery of kingcraft
They chose to compel no man’s conscience
They could not invent or imagine toleration
They knew very little of us, and that little wrong
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They have killed him, ‘e ammazato,’ cried
Concini
They were always to deceive every one, upon every
occasion
They liked not such divine right nor such gentle-mindedness
They had at last burned one more preacher alive
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-werpen, 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
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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
Unproductive consumption was alarmingly increasing
Unremitted intellectual labor in an honorable cause
Unwise impatience for peace
Upon their knees, served the queen with wine
Upon one day twenty-eight master cooks were dismissed
Upper and lower millstones of royal wrath and loyal
subserviency
Use of the spade
Usual phraseology of enthusiasts
Usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side
countered
Utter disproportions between the king’s means
and aims
Utter want of adaptation of his means to his ends
Uttering of my choler doth little ease my grief or
help my case
Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity
Vain belief that they were men at eighteen or twenty
Valour on the one side and discretion on the other
Villagers, or villeins
Visible atmosphere of power the poison of which
Volatile word was thought preferable to the permanent
letter
Vows of an eternal friendship of several weeks’
duration
Waiting the pleasure of a capricious and despotic
woman
Walk up and down the earth and destroy his fellow-creatures
War was the normal and natural condition of mankind
War was the normal condition of Christians
War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of
the strongest
Was it astonishing that murder was more common than
fidelity?
Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for
himself
We were sold by their negligence who are now angry
with us
We believe our mothers to have been honest women
We are beginning to be vexed
We must all die once
We have been talking a little bit of truth to each
other
We have the reputation of being a good housewife
We mustn’t tickle ourselves to make ourselves
laugh
Wealth was an unpardonable sin
Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity by an enormous
fine
Weapons
Weary of place without power
Weep oftener for her children than is the usual lot
of mothers
Weight of a thousand years of error
What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape
bankruptcy
What could save the House of Austria, the cause of
Papacy
What was to be done in this world and believed as
to the next
When persons of merit suffer without cause
When all was gone, they began to eat each other
When the abbot has dice in his pocket, the convent
will play
Whether dead infants were hopelessly damned
Whether murders or stratagems, as if they were acts
of virtue
Whether repentance could effect salvation
While one’s friends urge moderation
Who the “people” exactly were
Who loved their possessions better than their creed
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Whole revenue was pledged to pay the interest, on
his debts
Whose mutual hatred was now artfully inflamed by partisans
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange
William Brewster
Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome
Wiser simply to satisfy himself
Wish to sell us the bear-skin before they have killed
the bear
Wish to appear learned in matters of which they are
ignorant
With something of feline and feminine duplicity
Wonder equally at human capacity to inflict and to
endure misery
Wonders whether it has found its harbor or only lost
its anchor
Word peace in Spanish mouths simply meant the Holy
Inquisition
Word-mongers who, could clothe one shivering thought
Words are always interpreted to the disadvantage of
the weak
Work of the aforesaid Puritans and a few Jesuits
World has rolled on to fresher fields of carnage and
ruin
Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden
Worn nor caused to be worn the collar of the serf
Worship God according to the dictates of his conscience
Would not help to burn fifty or sixty thousand Netherlanders
Wrath of the Jesuits at this exercise of legal authority
Wrath of bigots on both sides
Wrath of that injured personage as he read such libellous
truths
Wringing a dry cloth for drops of evidence
Write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly
Writing letters full of injured innocence
Yes, there are wicked men about
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow
You must show your teeth to the Spaniard
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