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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 39 of 40 · ~244 words · public domain

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What could save the House of Austria, the cause of Papacy

What was to be done in this world and believed as to the next

When persons of merit suffer without cause

When all was gone, they began to eat each other

When the abbot has dice in his pocket, the convent will play

Whether dead infants were hopelessly damned

Whether murders or stratagems, as if they were acts of virtue

Whether repentance could effect salvation

While one's friends urge moderation

Who the "people" exactly were

Who loved their possessions better than their creed

Whole revenue was pledged to pay the interest, on his debts

Whose mutual hatred was now artfully inflamed by partisans

William of Nassau, Prince of Orange

William Brewster

Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome

Wiser simply to satisfy himself

Wish to sell us the bear-skin before they have killed the bear

Wish to appear learned in matters of which they are ignorant

With something of feline and feminine duplicity

Wonder equally at human capacity to inflict and to endure misery

Wonders whether it has found its harbor or only lost its anchor

Word peace in Spanish mouths simply meant the Holy Inquisition

Word-mongers who, could clothe one shivering thought

Words are always interpreted to the disadvantage of the weak

Work of the aforesaid Puritans and a few Jesuits

World has rolled on to fresher fields of carnage and ruin

Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden

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