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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 10 of 40 · ~203 words · public domain

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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

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