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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 12 of 40 · ~235 words · public domain

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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

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