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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 22 of 40 · ~221 words · public domain

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Moral nature, undergoes less change than might be hoped

More accustomed to do well than to speak well

More easily, as he had no intention of keeping the promise

More catholic than the pope

More fiercely opposed to each other than to Papists

More apprehension of fraud than of force

Most detestable verses that even he had ever composed

Most entirely truthful child he had ever seen

Motley was twice sacrificed to personal feelings

Much as the blind or the deaf towards colour or music

Myself seeing of it methinketh that I dream

Names history has often found it convenient to mark its epochs

National character, not the work of a few individuals

Nations tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery

Natural to judge only by the result

Natural tendency to suspicion of a timid man

Nearsighted liberalism

Necessary to make a virtue of necessity

Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch

Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns

Necessity of kingship

Negotiated as if they were all immortal

Neighbour's blazing roof was likely soon to fire their own

Neither kings nor governments are apt to value logic

Neither wished the convocation, while both affected an eagerness

Neither ambitious nor greedy

Never peace well made, he observed, without a mighty war

Never did statesmen know better how not to do

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