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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 8 of 40 · ~219 words · public domain

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Contained within itself the germs of a larger liberty

Contempt for treaties however solemnly ratified

Continuing to believe himself invincible and infallible

Converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling

Could handle an argument as well as a sword

Could paint a character with the ruddy life-blood coloring

Could not be both judge and party in the suit

Could do a little more than what was possible

Country would bear his loss with fortitude

Courage of despair inflamed the French

Courage and semblance of cheerfulness, with despair in his heart

Court fatigue, to scorn pleasure

Covered now with the satirical dust of centuries

Craft meaning, simply, strength

Created one child for damnation and another for salvation

Crescents in their caps: Rather Turkish than Popish

Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could imagine

Criminal whose guilt had been established by the hot iron

Criminals buying Paradise for money

Cruelties exercised upon monks and papists

Crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs

Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence

Customary oaths, to be kept with the customary conscientiousness

Daily widening schism between Lutherans and Calvinists

Deadliest of sins, the liberty of conscience

Deadly hatred of Puritans in England and Holland

Deal with his enemy as if sure to become his friend

Death rather than life with a false acknowledgment of guilt

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