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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 6 of 40 · ~229 words · public domain

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Breath, time, and paper were profusely wasted and nothing gained

Brethren, parents, and children, having wives in common

Bribed the Deity

Bungling diplomatists and credulous dotards

Burned, strangled, beheaded, or buried alive (100,000)

Burned alive if they objected to transubstantiation

Burning with bitter revenge for all the favours he had received

Burning of Servetus at Geneva

Business of an officer to fight, of a general to conquer

But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate

But after all this isn't a war It is a revolution

But not thoughtlessly indulgent to the boy

Butchery in the name of Christ was suspended

By turns, we all govern and are governed

Calling a peace perpetual can never make it so

Calumny is often a stronger and more lasting power than disdain

Can never be repaired and never sufficiently regretted

Canker of a long peace

Care neither for words nor menaces in any matter

Cargo of imaginary gold dust was exported from the James River

Casting up the matter "as pinchingly as possibly might be"

Casual outbursts of eternal friendship

Certain number of powers, almost exactly equal to each other

Certainly it was worth an eighty years' war

Changed his positions and contradicted himself day by day

Character of brave men to act, not to expect

Charles the Fifth autocrat of half the world

Chief seafaring nations of the world were already protestant

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