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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 5 of 40 · ~214 words · public domain

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Auction sales of judicial ermine

Baiting his hook a little to his appetite

Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon

Batavian legion was the imperial body guard

Beacons in the upward path of mankind

Beating the Netherlanders into Christianity

Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not lack suitors

Because he had been successful (hated)

Becoming more learned, and therefore more ignorant

Been already crimination and recrimination more than enough

Before morning they had sacked thirty churches

Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand

Beggars of the sea, as these privateersmen designated themselves

Behead, torture, burn alive, and bury alive all heretics

Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies

Believed in the blessed advent of peace

Beneficent and charitable purposes (War)

best defence in this case is little better than an impeachment

Bestowing upon others what was not his property

Better to be governed by magistrates than mobs

Better is the restlessness of a noble ambition

Beware of a truce even more than of a peace

Bigotry which was the prevailing characteristic of the age

Bishop is a consecrated pirate

Blessed freedom from speech-making

Blessing of God upon the Devil's work

Bold reformer had only a new dogma in place of the old ones

Bomb-shells were not often used although known for a century

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