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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 29 of 40 · ~223 words · public domain

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Resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military

Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance

Respect for differences in religious opinions

Result was both to abandon the provinces and to offend Philip

Revocable benefices or feuds

Rich enough to be worth robbing

Righteous to kill their own children

Road to Paris lay through the gates of Rome

Rose superior to his doom and took captivity captive

Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived

Royal plans should be enforced adequately or abandoned entirely

Ruinous honors

Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns

Sacked and drowned ten infant princes

Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully obeying her orders

Safest citadel against an invader and a tyrant is distrust

Sages of every generation, read the future like a printed scroll

Saint Bartholomew's day

Sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes to the priests

Same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind

Scaffold was the sole refuge from the rack

Scepticism, which delights in reversing the judgment of centuries

Schism in the Church had become a public fact

Schism which existed in the general Reformed Church

Science of reigning was the science of lying

Scoffing at the ceremonies and sacraments of the Church

Secret drowning was substituted for public burning

Secure the prizes of war without the troubles and dangers

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