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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 32 of 40 · ~207 words · public domain

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Strangled his nineteen brothers on his accession

Strength does a falsehood acquire in determined and skilful hand

String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza

Stroke of a broken table knife sharpened on a carriage wheel

Studied according to his inclinations rather than by rule

Style above all other qualities seems to embalm for posterity

Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a friend

Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill

Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones

Such a crime as this had never been conceived (bankruptcy)

Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation

Suicide is confession

Superfluous sarcasm

Suppress the exercise of the Roman religion

Sure bind, sure find

Sword in hand is the best pen to write the conditions of peace

Take all their imaginations and extravagances for truths

Talked impatiently of the value of my time

Tanchelyn

Taxation upon sin

Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent

Taxes upon income and upon consumption

Tempest of passion and prejudice

Ten thousand two hundred and twenty individuals were burned

Tension now gave place to exhaustion

That vile and mischievous animal called the people

That crowned criminal, Philip the Second

That unholy trinity--Force; Dogma, and Ignorance

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