Part 26

Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war

Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate

Peace-at-any-price party

Peace, in reality, was war in its worst shape

Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce was inevitable

Peace would be destruction

Perfection of insolence

Perpetually dropping small innuendos like pebbles

Persons who discussed religious matters were to be put to death

Petty passion for contemptible details

Philip II. gave the world work enough

Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable

Philip IV.

Philip, who did not often say a great deal in a few words

Picturesqueness of crime

Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat

Plain enough that he is telling his own story

Planted the inquisition in the Netherlands

Played so long with other men's characters and good name

Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes ridiculous

Plundering the country which they came to protect

Poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats

Pope excommunicated him as a heretic

Pope and emperor maintain both positions with equal logic

Portion of these revenues savoured much of black-mail

Possible to do, only because we see that it has been done

Pot-valiant hero

Power the poison of which it is so difficult to resist