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# HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS

## By John Lothrop Motley

## LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Motley's History of the Netherlands

Title Page

The Siege of Antwerp

Prince William of Orange-Nassau (William the Silent)

The Earl of Leichester

Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma

John of Barneveld

Bookcover

The Hague

    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 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

    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

    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 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

    Denounced 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

    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

    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

    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 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)

    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

    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 he 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

    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 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

    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

    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 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

    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

    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-weapen, 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 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

    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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