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Title: Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands

Author: John Lothrop Motley
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #7552]
[Last updated on February 19, 2007]

Language: English

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Produced by David Widger

QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY

HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS

By John Lothrop Motley

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Motley's History of the Netherlands

Title Page

The Siege of Antwerp

Prince William of Orange-Nassau (William the Silent)

The Earl of Leichester

Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma

John of Barneveld

Bookcover

The Hague

1566, the last year of peace

A pleasantry called voluntary
contributions or benevolences

A good lawyer is a bad Christian

A terrible animal, indeed, is an
unbridled woman

A common hatred united them, for a time
at least

A penal offence in the republic to talk
of peace or of truce

A most fatal success

A country disinherited by nature of its
rights

A free commonwealth--was thought an
absurdity

A hard bargain when both parties are
losers

A burnt cat fears the fire

A despot really keeps no accounts, nor
need to do so

A sovereign remedy for the disease of
liberty

A pusillanimous peace, always possible
at any period

A man incapable of fatigue, of
perplexity, or of fear

A truce he honestly considered a
pitfall of destruction

A great historian is almost a statesman

Able men should be by design and of
purpose suppressed

About equal to that of England at the
same period

Absolution for incest was afforded at
thirty-six livres

Abstinence from unproductive
consumption

Abstinence from inquisition into
consciences and private parlour

Absurd affectation of candor

Accepting a new tyrant in place of the
one so long ago deposed

Accustomed to the faded gallantries

Achieved the greatness to which they
had not be