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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 4 of 40 · ~216 words · public domain

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And thus this gentle and heroic spirit took its flight

Angle with their dissimulation as with a hook

Announced his approaching marriage with the Virgin Mary

Annual harvest of iniquity by which his revenue was increased

Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the senators did nothing at all

Are apt to discharge such obligations-- (by) ingratitude

Are wont to hang their piety on the bell-rope

Argument in a circle

Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise begins

Aristocracy of God's elect

Arminianism

Arrested on suspicion, tortured till confession

Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not avail them

Artillery

As logical as men in their cups are prone to be

As the old woman had told the Emperor Adrian

As if they were free will not make them free

As lieve see the Spanish as the Calvinistic inquisition

As ready as papists, with age, fagot, and excommunication

As with his own people, keeping no back-door open

As neat a deception by telling the truth

At a blow decapitated France

At length the twig was becoming the tree

Atheist, a tyrant, because he resisted dictation from the clergy

Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised religion

Attacked by the poetic mania

Attacking the authority of the pope

Attempting to swim in two waters

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