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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 14 of 40 · ~217 words · public domain

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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

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