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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 30 of 40 · ~216 words · public domain

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Security is dangerous

Seeking protection for and against the people

Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous

Seemed bent on self-destruction

Seems but a change of masks, of costume, of phraseology

Sees the past in the pitiless light of the present

Self-assertion--the healthful but not engaging attribute

Self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy

Selling the privilege of eating eggs upon fast-days

Senectus edam maorbus est

Sent them word by carrier pigeons

Sentiment of Christian self-complacency

Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal

Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their knees

Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven thousand rebels

Sewers which have ever run beneath decorous Christendom

Shall Slavery die, or the great Republic?

Sharpened the punishment for reading the scriptures in private

She relieth on a hope that will deceive her

She declined to be his procuress

She knew too well how women were treated in that country

Shift the mantle of religion from one shoulder to the other

Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen

Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged

Sick and wounded wretches were burned over slow fires

Simple truth was highest skill

Sixteen of their best ships had been sacrificed

Slain four hundred and ten men with his own hand

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