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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 15 of 40 · ~245 words · public domain

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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

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