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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 7 of 40 · ~215 words · public domain

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Chieftains are dwarfed in the estimation of followers

Children who had never set foot on the shore

Christian sympathy and a small assistance not being sufficient

Chronicle of events must not be anticipated

Claimed the praise of moderation that their demands were so few

Cold water of conventional and commonplace encouragement

College of "peace-makers," who wrangled more than all

Colonel Ysselstein, "dismissed for a homicide or two"

Compassing a country's emancipation through a series of defeats

Conceding it subsequently, after much contestation

Conceit, and procrastination which marked the royal character

Conciliation when war of extermination was intended

Conclusive victory for the allies seemed as predestined

Conde and Coligny

Condemned first and inquired upon after

Condemning all heretics to death

Conflicting claims of prerogative and conscience

Conformity of Governments to the principles of justice

Confused conferences, where neither party was entirely sincere

Considerable reason, even if there were but little justice

Considerations of state have never yet failed the axe

Considerations of state as a reason

Considered it his special mission in the world to mediate

Consign to the flames all prisoners whatever (Papal letter)

Constant vigilance is the price of liberty

Constitute themselves at once universal legatees

Constitutional governments, move in the daylight

Consumer would pay the tax, supposing it were ever paid at all

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