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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 18 of 40 · ~228 words · public domain

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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

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