Part 38

Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity

Vain belief that they were men at eighteen or twenty

Valour on the one side and discretion on the other

Villagers, or villeins

Visible atmosphere of power the poison of which

Volatile word was thought preferable to the permanent letter

Vows of an eternal friendship of several weeks' duration

Waiting the pleasure of a capricious and despotic woman

Walk up and down the earth and destroy his fellow-creatures

War was the normal and natural condition of mankind

War was the normal condition of Christians

War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of the strongest

Was it astonishing that murder was more common than fidelity?

Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for himself

We were sold by their negligence who are now angry with us

We believe our mothers to have been honest women

We are beginning to be vexed

We must all die once

We have been talking a little bit of truth to each other

We have the reputation of being a good housewife

We mustn't tickle ourselves to make ourselves laugh

Wealth was an unpardonable sin

Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity by an enormous fine

Weapons

Weary of place without power

Weep oftener for her children than is the usual lot of mothers

Weight of a thousand years of error

What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape bankruptcy