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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 31 of 40 · ~224 words · public domain

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Slavery was both voluntary and compulsory

Slender stock of platitudes

Small matter which human folly had dilated into a great one

Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of any substantial

So much responsibility and so little power

So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism)

So much in advance of his time as to favor religious equality

So unconscious of her strength

Soldier of the cross was free upon his return

Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the bad

Solitary and morose, the necessary consequence of reckless study

Some rude lessons from that vigorous little commonwealth

Sometimes successful, even although founded upon sincerity

Sonnets of Petrarch

Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed of God

Spain was governed by an established terrorism

Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen

Sparing and war have no affinity together

Spendthrift of time, he was an economist of blood

Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud of his country

St. Peter's dome rising a little nearer to the clouds

St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven years longer

Stake or gallows (for) heretics to transubstantiation

Stand between hope and fear

State can best defend religion by letting it alone

States were justified in their almost unlimited distrust

Steeped to the lips in sloth which imagined itself to be pride

Storm by which all these treasures were destroyed (in 7 days)

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