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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 33 of 40 · ~208 words · public domain

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That cynical commerce in human lives

That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice

The tragedy of Don Carlos

The worst were encouraged with their good success

The history of the Netherlands is history of liberty

The great ocean was but a Spanish lake

The divine speciality of a few transitory mortals

The sapling was to become the tree

The nation which deliberately carves itself in pieces

The expenses of James's household

The Catholic League and the Protestant Union

The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels

The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign's littleness

The defence of the civil authority against the priesthood

The assassin, tortured and torn by four horses

The Gaul was singularly unchaste

The vivifying becomes afterwards the dissolving principle

The bad Duke of Burgundy, Philip surnamed "the Good,"

The greatest crime, however, was to be rich

The more conclusive arbitration of gunpowder

The disunited provinces

The noblest and richest temple of the Netherlands was a wreck

The voice of slanderers

The calf is fat and must be killed

The illness was a convenient one

The egg had been laid by Erasmus, hatched by Luther

The perpetual reproductions of history

The very word toleration was to sound like an insult

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