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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 35 of 40 · ~248 words · public domain

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There was no use in holding language of authority to him

There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm

There is no man fitter for that purpose than myself

Therefore now denounced the man whom he had injured

These human victims, chained and burning at the stake

They had come to disbelieve in the mystery of kingcraft

They chose to compel no man's conscience

They could not invent or imagine toleration

They knew very little of us, and that little wrong

They have killed him, 'e ammazato,' cried Concini

They were always to deceive every one, upon every occasion

They liked not such divine right nor such gentle-mindedness

They had at last burned one more preacher alive

Things he could tell which are too odious and dreadful

Thirty thousand masses should be said for his soul

Thirty-three per cent. interest was paid (per month)

Thirty Years' War tread on the heels of the forty years

This Somebody may have been one whom we should call Nobody

This, then, is the reward of forty years' service to the State

This obstinate little republic

This wonderful sovereign's littleness oppresses the imagination

Those who fish in troubled waters only to fill their own nets

Those who "sought to swim between two waters"

Those who argue against a foregone conclusion

Thought that all was too little for him

Thousands of burned heretics had not made a single convert

Three hundred fighting women

Three hundred and upwards are hanged annually in London

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