Perfection of insolence

Perpetually dropping small innuendos
like pebbles

Persons who discussed religious matters
were to be put to death

Petty passion for contemptible details

Philip II. gave the world work enough

Philip of Macedon, who considered no
city impregnable

Philip IV.

Philip, who did not often say a great
deal in a few words

Picturesqueness of crime

Placid unconsciousness on his part of
defeat

Plain enough that he is telling his own
story

Planted the inquisition in the
Netherlands

Played so long with other men's
characters and good name

Plea of infallibility and of authority
soon becomes ridiculous

Plundering the country which they came
to protect

Poisoning, for example, was absolved
for eleven ducats

Pope excommunicated him as a heretic

Pope and emperor maintain both
positions with equal logic

Portion of these revenues savoured much
of black-mail

Possible to do, only because we see
that it has been done

Pot-valiant hero

Power the poison of which it is so
difficult to resist

Power to read and write helped the
clergy to much wealth

Power grudged rather than given to the
deputies

Practised successfully the talent of
silence

Pray here for satiety, (said Cecil)
than ever think of variety

Preferred an open enemy to a
treacherous protector

Premature zeal was prejudicial to the
cause

Presents of considerable sums of money
to the negotiators made

Presumption in entitling themselves
Christian

Preventing wrong, or violence, even
towards an enemy

Priests shall control the state or the
state govern the priests

Princes show what they have in them at
twenty-five or never

Prisoners were immediately hanged

Privileged to beg, because ashamed to
work

Proceeds of his permission to eat meat
on Fridays

Proclaiming the virginity of the
Virgin's mother

Procrastination was always his first
refuge

Progress should be by a spiral movement

Promises which he knew to be binding
only upon the weak

Proposition made by the wolves to the
sheep, in the fable

Protect the common tranquillity by
blood, purse, and life

Provided not one Huguenot be left alive
in France

Public which must have a slain
reputation to devour

Purchased absolution for crime and
smoothed a pathway to heaven

Puritanism in Holland was a very
different thing from England

Put all those to the torture out of
whom anything can be got