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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 been born
Act of Uniformity required Papists to
assist
Acts of violence which under pretext of
religion
Admired or despised, as if he or she
were our contemporary
Adulation for inferiors whom they
despise
Advanced orthodox party-Puritans
Advancing age diminished his tendency
to other carnal pleasures
Advised his Majesty to bestow an annual
bribe upon Lord Burleigh
Affecting to discredit them
Affection of his friends and the wrath
of his enemies
Age when toleration was a vice
Agreements were valid only until he
should repent
Alas! the benighted victims of
superstition hugged their chains
Alas! we must always have something to
persecute
Alas! one never knows when one becomes
a bore
Alexander's exuberant discretion
All Italy was in his hands
All fellow-worms together
All business has been transacted with
open doors
All reading of the scriptures
(forbidden)
All the majesty which decoration could
impart
All denounced the image-breaking
All claimed the privilege of
persecuting
All his disciples and converts are to
be punished with death
All Protestants were beheaded, burned,
or buried alive
All classes are conservative by
necessity
All the ministers and great
functionaries received presents
All offices were sold to the highest
bidder
Allow her to seek a profit from his
misfortune
Allowed the demon of religious hatred
to enter into its body
Almost infinite power of the meanest of
passions
Already looking forward to the revolt
of the slave States
Altercation between Luther and Erasmus,
upon predestination
Always less apt to complain of
irrevocable events
American Unholy Inquisition
Amuse them with this peace negotiation
An inspiring and delightful recreation
(auto-da-fe)
An hereditary papacy, a perpetual
pope-emperor
An age when to think was a crime
An unjust God, himself the origin of
sin
An order of things in which mediocrity
is at a premium
Anarchy which was deemed inseparable
from a non-regal form
Anatomical study of what has ceased to
exist
And give advice. Of that, although
always a spendthrift
And now the knife of another priest-led
fanatic
And thus this gentle and heroic spirit
took its flight
Angle with their dissimulation as with
a hook
Announced his approaching marriage with
the Virgin Mary
Annual harvest of iniquity by which his
revenue was increased
Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the
senators did nothing at all
Are apt to discharge such obligations—
(by) ingratitude
Are wont to hang their piety on the
bell-rope
Argument in a circle
Argument is exhausted and either action
or compromise begins
Aristocracy of God's elect
Arminianism
Arrested on suspicion, tortured till
confession
Arrive at their end by fraud, when
violence will not avail them
Artillery
As logical as men in their cups are
prone to be
As the old woman had told the Emperor
Adrian
As if they were free will not make them
free
As lieve see the Spanish as the
Calvinistic inquisition
As ready as papists, with age, fagot,
and excommunication
As with his own people, keeping no
back-door open
As neat a deception by telling the
truth
At a blow decapitated France
At length the twig was becoming the
tree
Atheist, a tyrant, because he resisted
dictation from the clergy
Attachment to a half-drowned land and
to a despised religion
Attacked by the poetic mania
Attacking the authority of the pope
Attempting to swim in two waters
Auction sales of judicial ermine
Baiting his hook a little to his
appetite
Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of
Ratisbon
Batavian legion was the imperial body
guard
Beacons in the upward path of mankind
Beating the Netherlanders into
Christianity
Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not
lack suitors
Because he had been successful (hated)
Becoming more learned, and therefore
more ignorant
Been already crimination and
recrimination more than enough
Before morning they had sacked thirty
churches
Began to scatter golden arguments with
a lavish hand
Beggars of the sea, as these
privateersmen designated themselves
Behead, torture, burn alive, and bury
alive all heretics
Being the true religion, proved by so
many testimonies
Believed in the blessed advent of
peace
Beneficent and charitable purposes
(War)
best defence in this case is little
better than an impeachment
Bestowing upon others what was not his
property
Better to be governed by magistrates
than mobs
Better is the restlessness of a noble
ambition
Beware of a truce even more than of a
peace
Bigotry which was the prevailing
characteristic of the age
Bishop is a consecrated pirate
Blessed freedom from speech-making
Blessing of God upon the Devil's work
Bold reformer had only a new dogma in
place of the old ones
Bomb-shells were not often used
although known for a century
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
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
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
Decline a bribe or interfere with the
private sale of places
Decrees for burning, strangling, and
burying alive
Deeply criminal in the eyes of all
religious parties
Defeated garrison ever deserved more
respect from friend or foe
Defect of enjoying the flattery, of his
inferiors in station
Delay often fights better than an army
against a foreign invader
Demanding peace and bread at any price
Democratic instincts of the ancient
German savages
Denies the utility of prayers for the
dead
Denounced as an obstacle to peace
Depths theological party spirit could
descend
Depths of credulity men in all ages can
sink
Despised those who were grateful
Despot by birth and inclination
(Charles V.)
Determined to bring the very name of
liberty into contempt
Devote himself to his gout and to his
fair young wife
Difference between liberties and
liberty
Difficult for one friend to advise
another in three matters
Diplomacy of Spain and Rome—meant
simply dissimulation
Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly
in the power to deceive
Disciple of Simon Stevinus
Dismay of our friends and the
gratification of our enemies
Disordered, and unknit state needs no
shaking, but propping
Disposed to throat-cutting by the
ministers of the Gospel
Dispute between Luther and Zwingli
concerning the real presence
Disputing the eternal damnation of
young children
Dissenters were as bigoted as the
orthodox
Dissimulation and delay
Distinguished for his courage, his
cruelty, and his corpulence
Divine right of kings
Divine right
Do you want peace or war? I am ready
for either
Doctrine of predestination in its
sternest and strictest sense
Don John of Austria
Don John was at liberty to be King of
England and Scotland
Done nothing so long as aught remained
to do
Drank of the water in which, he had
washed
Draw a profit out of the necessities of
this state
During this, whole war, we have never
seen the like
Dying at so very inconvenient a moment
Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and
therefore persecuting
Eat their own children than to forego
one high mass
Eight thousand human beings were
murdered
Elizabeth, though convicted, could
always confute
Elizabeth (had not) the faintest idea
of religious freedom
Eloquence of the biggest guns
Emperor of Japan addressed him as his
brother monarch
Emulation is not capability
Endure every hardship but hunger
Enemy of all compulsion of the human
conscience
England hated the Netherlands
English Puritans
Englishmen and Hollanders preparing to
cut each other's throats
Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists
Enormous wealth (of the Church) which
engendered the hatred
Enriched generation after generation by
wealthy penitence
Enthusiasm could not supply the place
of experience
Envying those whose sufferings had
already been terminated
Epernon, the true murderer of Henry
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Erasmus encourages the bold friar
Establish not freedom for Calvinism,
but freedom for conscience
Estimating his character and judging
his judges
Even the virtues of James were his
worst enemies
Even to grant it slowly is to deny it
utterly
Even for the rape of God's mother, if
that were possible
Ever met disaster with so cheerful a
smile
Ever-swarming nurseries of mercenary
warriors
Every one sees what you seem, few
perceive what you are
Everybody should mind his own business
Everything else may happen This alone
must happen
Everything was conceded, but nothing
was secured
Evil is coming, the sooner it arrives
the better
Evil has the advantage of rapidly
assuming many shapes
Excited with the appearance of a gem of
true philosophy
Excused by their admirers for their
shortcomings
Excuses to disarm the criticism he had
some reason to fear
Executions of Huss and Jerome of Prague
Exorcising the devil by murdering his
supposed victims
Extraordinary capacity for yielding to
gentle violence
Fable of divine right is invented to
sanction the system
Faction has rarely worn a more
mischievous aspect
Famous fowl in every pot
Fanatics of the new religion denounced
him as a godless man
Fate, free will, or absolute
foreknowledge
Father Cotton, who was only too ready
to betray the secrets
Fear of the laugh of the world at its
sincerity
Fed on bear's liver, were nearly
poisoned to death
Felix Mants, the anabaptist, is drowned
at Zurich
Fellow worms had been writhing for half
a century in the dust
Ferocity which even Christians could
not have surpassed
Few, even prelates were very dutiful to
the pope
Fiction of apostolic authority to bind
and loose
Fifty thousand persons in the provinces
(put to death)
Financial opposition to tyranny is apt
to be unanimous
Find our destruction in our immoderate
desire for peace
Fishermen and river raftsmen become
ocean adventurers
Fitted "To warn, to comfort, and
command"
Fitter to obey than to command
Five great rivers hold the Netherland
territory in their coils
Flattery is a sweet and intoxicating
potion
Fled from the land of oppression to the
land of liberty
Fool who useth not wit because he hath
it not
For myself I am unworthy of the honor
(of martyrdom)
For faithful service, evil recompense
For women to lament, for men to
remember
For us, looking back upon the Past,
which was then the Future
For his humanity towards the conquered
garrisons (censured)
Forbidding the wearing of mourning at
all
Forbids all private assemblies for
devotion
Force clerical—the power of clerks
Foremost to shake off the fetters of
superstition
Forget those who have done them good
service
Forgiving spirit on the part of the
malefactor
Fortune's buffets and rewards can take
with equal thanks
Four weeks' holiday—the first in
eleven years
France was mourning Henry and waiting
for Richelieu
French seem madmen, and are wise
Friendly advice still more intolerable
Full of precedents and declamatory
commonplaces
Furious fanaticism
Furious mob set upon the house of Rem
Bischop
Furnished, in addition, with a force of
two thousand prostitutes
Future world as laid down by rival
priesthoods
Gallant and ill-fated Lamoral Egmont
Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a
band of pigmies
German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea
of religious freedom
German finds himself sober—he believes
himself ill
German Highland and the German
Netherland
Gigantic vices are proudly pointed to
as the noblest
Give him advice if he asked it, and
money when he required
Glory could be put neither into pocket
nor stomach
God has given absolute power to no
mortal man
God, whose cause it was, would be
pleased to give good weather
God alone can protect us against those
whom we trust
God of wrath who had decreed the
extermination of all unbeliever
God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of
injustice
God Save the King! It was the last
time
Gold was the only passkey to justice
Gomarites accused the Arminians of
being more lax than Papists
Govern under the appearance of obeying
Great transactions of a reign are
sometimes paltry things
Great science of political equilibrium
Great Privilege, the Magna Charta of
Holland
Great error of despising their enemy
Great war of religion and politics was
postponed
Great battles often leave the world
where they found it
Guarantees of forgiveness for every
imaginable sin
Guilty of no other crime than adhesion
to the Catholic faith
Habeas corpus
Had industry been honoured instead of
being despised
Haereticis non servanda fides
Hair and beard unshorn, according to
ancient Batavian custom
Halcyon days of ban, book and candle
Hanged for having eaten meat-soup upon
Friday
Hanging of Mary Dyer at Boston
Hangman is not the most appropriate
teacher of religion
Happy to glass themselves in so
brilliant a mirror
Hard at work, pouring sand through
their sieves
Hardly a distinguished family in Spain
not placed in mourning
Hardly a sound Protestant policy
anywhere but in Holland
Hardly an inch of French soil that had
not two possessors
Having conjugated his paradigm
conscientiously
He had omitted to execute heretics
He did his best to be friends with all
the world
He was a sincere bigot
He that stands let him see that he does
not fall
He was not always careful in the
construction of his sentences
He would have no persecution of the
opposite creed
He came as a conqueror not as a
mediator
He who spreads the snare always tumbles
into the ditch himself
He who would have all may easily lose
all
He knew men, especially he knew their
weaknesses
He had never enjoyed social converse,
except at long intervals
He would have no Calvinist inquisition
set up in its place
He who confessed well was absolved well
He did his work, but he had not his
reward
He sat a great while at a time. He had
a genius for sitting
He was not imperial of aspect on canvas
or coin
He often spoke of popular rights with
contempt
He spent more time at table than the
Bearnese in sleep
Heidelberg Catechism were declared to
be infallible
Henry the Huguenot as the champion of
the Council of Trent
Her teeth black, her bosom white and
liberally exposed (Eliz.)
Heresy was a plant of early growth in
the Netherlands
Heretics to the English Church were
persecuted
Hibernian mode of expressing himself
High officers were doing the work of
private, soldiers
Highborn demagogues in that as in every
age affect adulation
Highest were not necessarily the least
slimy
His inordinate arrogance
His own past triumphs seemed now his
greatest enemies
His imagination may have assisted his
memory in the task
His insolence intolerable
His learning was a reproach to the
ignorant
His invectives were, however, much
stronger than his arguments
His personal graces, for the moment,
took the rank of virtues
His dogged, continuous capacity for
work
Historical scepticism may shut its eyes
to evidence
History is a continuous whole of which
we see only fragments
History is but made up of a few
scattered fragments
History never forgets and never
forgives
History has not too many really
important and emblematic men
History shows how feeble are barriers
of paper
Holland was afraid to give a part,
although offering the whole
Holland, England, and America, are all
links of one chain
Holy Office condemned all the
inhabitants of the Netherlands
Holy institution called the Inquisition
Honor good patriots, and to support
them in venial errors
Hope delayed was but a cold and meagre
consolation
Hope deferred, suddenly changing to
despair
How many more injured by becoming bad
copies of a bad ideal
Hugo Grotius
Human nature in its meanness and shame
Human ingenuity to inflict human misery
Human fat esteemed the sovereignst
remedy (for wounds)
Humanizing effect of science upon the
barbarism of war
Humble ignorance as the safest creed
Humility which was but the cloak to his
pride
Hundred thousand men had laid down
their lives by her decree
I did never see any man behave himself
as he did
I know how to console myself
I am a king that will be ever known not
to fear any but God
I hope and I fear
I would carry the wood to burn my own
son withal
I regard my country's profit, not my
own
I will never live, to see the end of my
poverty
Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned
upon nations
Idiotic principle of sumptuary
legislation
Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging,
filching vagabonds
If he had little, he could live upon
little
If to do be as grand as to imagine what
it were good to do
If he has deserved it, let them strike
off his head
Ignoble facts which strew the highways
of political life
Ignorance is the real enslaver of
mankind
Imagined, and did the work of truth
Imagining that they held the world's
destiny in their hands
Impatience is often on the part of the
non-combatants
Implication there was much, of
assertion very little
Imposed upon the multitudes, with whom
words were things
Impossible it is to practise arithmetic
with disturbed brains
Impossible it was to invent terms of
adulation too gross
In revolutions the men who win are
those who are in earnest
In character and general talents he was
beneath mediocrity
In times of civil war, to be neutral is
to be nothing
In Holland, the clergy had neither
influence nor seats
In this he was much behind his age or
before it
Incur the risk of being charged with
forwardness than neglect
Indecision did the work of indolence
Indignant that heretics had been
suffered to hang
Individuals walking in advance of their
age
Indoor home life imprisons them in the
domestic circle
Indulging them frequently with oracular
advice
Inevitable fate of talking castles and
listening ladies
Infamy of diplomacy, when diplomacy is
unaccompanied by honesty
Infinite capacity for pecuniary
absorption
Informer, in case of conviction, should
be entitled to one half
Inhabited by the savage tribes called
Samoyedes
Innocent generation, to atone for the
sins of their forefathers
Inquisition of the Netherlands is much
more pitiless
Inquisition was not a fit subject for a
compromise
Inquisitors enough; but there were no
light vessels in The Armada
Insane cruelty, both in the cause of
the Wrong and the Right
Insensible to contumely, and incapable
of accepting a rebuff
Insinuate that his orders had been
hitherto misunderstood
Insinuating suspicions when unable to
furnish evidence
Intellectual dandyisms of Bulwer
Intelligence, science, and industry
were accounted degrading
Intense bigotry of conviction
Intentions of a government which did
not know its own intentions
International friendship, the
self-interest of each
Intolerable tendency to puns
Invaluable gift which no human being
can acquire, authority
Invented such Christian formulas as
these (a curse)
Inventing long speeches for historical
characters
Invincible Armada had not only been
vanquished but annihilated
Irresistible force in collision with an
insuperable resistance
It was the true religion, and there was
none other
It is not desirable to disturb much of
that learned dust
It had not yet occurred to him that he
was married
It is n't strategists that are wanted
so much as believers
It is certain that the English hate us
(Sully)
Its humility, seemed sufficiently
ironical
James of England, who admired, envied,
and hated Henry
Jealousy, that potent principle
Jesuit Mariana—justifying the killing
of excommunicated kings
John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.
John Wier, a physician of Grave
John Robinson
John Quincy Adams
Judas Maccabaeus
July 1st, two Augustine monks were
burned at Brussels
Justified themselves in a solemn
consumption of time
Kindly shadow of oblivion
King who thought it furious madness to
resist the enemy
King had issued a general repudiation
of his debts
King set a price upon his head as a
rebel
King of Zion to be pinched to death
with red-hot tongs
King was often to be something much
less or much worse
King's definite and final intentions,
varied from day to day
Labored under the disadvantage of never
having existed
Labour was esteemed dishonourable
Language which is ever living because
it is dead
Languor of fatigue, rather than any
sincere desire for peace
Leading motive with all was supposed to
be religion
Learn to tremble as little at
priestcraft as at swordcraft
Leave not a single man alive in the
city, and to burn every house
Let us fool these poor creatures to
their heart's content
Licences accorded by the crown to carry
slaves to America
Life of nations and which we call the
Past
Like a man holding a wolf by the ears
Little army of Maurice was becoming the
model for Europe
Little grievances would sometimes
inflame more than vast
Local self-government which is the
life-blood of liberty
Logic of the largest battalions
Logic is rarely the quality on which
kings pride themselves
Logical and historical argument of
unmerciful length
Long succession of so many illustrious
obscure
Longer they delay it, the less easy
will they find it
Look through the cloud of dissimulation
Look for a sharp war, or a miserable
peace
Looking down upon her struggle with
benevolent indifference
Lord was better pleased with adverbs
than nouns
Loud, nasal, dictatorial tone, not at
all agreeable
Louis XIII.
Loving only the persons who flattered
him
Ludicrous gravity
Luther's axiom, that thoughts are
toll-free
Lutheran princes of Germany, detested
the doctrines of Geneva
Luxury had blunted the fine instincts
of patriotism
Made peace—and had been at war ever
since
Made no breach in royal and Roman
infallibility
Made to swing to and fro over a slow
fire
Magistracy at that moment seemed to
mean the sword
Magnificent hopefulness
Maintaining the attitude of an injured
but forgiving Christian
Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf
will eat you
Make the very name of man a term of
reproach
Man is never so convinced of his own
wisdom
Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to
reign
Man had only natural wrongs (No natural
rights)
Man had no rights at all He was
property
Mankind were naturally inclined to
calumny
Manner in which an insult shall be
dealt with
Many greedy priests, of lower rank, had
turned shop-keepers
Maritime heretics
Matter that men may rather pray for
than hope for
Matters little by what name a
government is called
Meantime the second civil war in France
had broken out
Mediocrity is at a premium
Meet around a green table except as
fencers in the field
Men were loud in reproof, who had been
silent
Men fought as if war was the normal
condition of humanity
Men who meant what they said and said
what they meant
Mendacity may always obtain over
innocence and credulity
Military virtue in the support of an
infamous cause
Misanthropical, sceptical philosopher
Misery had come not from their being
enemies
Mistake to stumble a second time over
the same stone
Mistakes might occur from occasional
deviations into sincerity
Mockery of negotiation in which nothing
could be negotiated
Modern statesmanship, even while it
practises, condemns
Monasteries, burned their invaluable
libraries
Mondragon was now ninety-two years old
Moral nature, undergoes less change
than might be hoped
More accustomed to do well than to
speak well
More easily, as he had no intention of
keeping the promise
More catholic than the pope
More fiercely opposed to each other
than to Papists
More apprehension of fraud than of
force
Most detestable verses that even he had
ever composed
Most entirely truthful child he had
ever seen
Motley was twice sacrificed to personal
feelings
Much as the blind or the deaf towards
colour or music
Myself seeing of it methinketh that I
dream
Names history has often found it
convenient to mark its epochs
National character, not the work of a
few individuals
Nations tied to the pinafores of
children in the nursery
Natural to judge only by the result
Natural tendency to suspicion of a
timid man
Nearsighted liberalism
Necessary to make a virtue of necessity
Necessity of extirpating heresy, root
and branch
Necessity of deferring to powerful
sovereigns
Necessity of kingship
Negotiated as if they were all immortal
Neighbour's blazing roof was likely
soon to fire their own
Neither kings nor governments are apt
to value logic
Neither wished the convocation, while
both affected an eagerness
Neither ambitious nor greedy
Never peace well made, he observed,
without a mighty war
Never did statesmen know better how not
to do
Never lack of fishers in troubled
waters
New Years Day in England, 11th January
by the New Style
Night brings counsel
Nine syllables that which could be more
forcibly expressed in on
No one can testify but a householder
No man can be neutral in civil
contentions
No law but the law of the longest purse
No two books, as he said, ever injured
each other
No retrenchments in his pleasures of
women, dogs, and buildings
No great man can reach the highest
position in our government
No man is safe (from news reporters)
No man could reveal secrets which he
did not know
No authority over an army which they
did not pay
No man pretended to think of the State
No synod had a right to claim
Netherlanders as slaves
No qualities whatever but birth and
audacity to recommend him
No generation is long-lived enough to
reap the harvest
No man ever understood the art of
bribery more thoroughly
No calumny was too senseless to be
invented
None but God to compel me to say more
than I choose to say
Nor is the spirit of the age to be
pleaded in defence
Not a friend of giving details larger
than my ascertained facts
Not distinguished for their docility
Not to let the grass grow under their
feet
Not a single acquaintance in the place,
and we glory in the fact
Not safe for politicians to call each
other hard names
Not his custom nor that of his
councillors to go to bed
Not of the genus Reptilia, and could
neither creep nor crouch
Not strong enough to sustain many more
such victories
Not to fall asleep in the shade of a
peace negotiation
Not many more than two hundred
Catholics were executed
Not upon words but upon actions
Not for a new doctrine, but for liberty
of conscience
Not of the stuff of which martyrs are
made (Erasmus)
Not so successful as he was picturesque
Nothing could equal Alexander's
fidelity, but his perfidy
Nothing cheap, said a citizen bitterly,
but sermons
Nothing was so powerful as religious
difference
Notre Dame at Antwerp
Nowhere was the persecution of heretics
more relentless
Nowhere were so few unproductive
consumers
O God! what does man come to!
Obscure were thought capable of dying
natural deaths
Obstinate, of both sexes, to be burned
Octogenarian was past work and past
mischief
Of high rank but of lamentably low
capacity
Often much tyranny in democracy
Often necessary to be blind and deaf
Oldenbarneveld; afterwards so
illustrious
On the first day four thousand men and
women were slaughtered
One-half to Philip and one-half to the
Pope and Venice (slaves)
One-third of Philip's effective navy
was thus destroyed
One golden grain of wit into a sheet of
infinite platitude
One could neither cry nor laugh within
the Spanish dominions
One of the most contemptible and
mischievous of kings (James I)
Only healthy existence of the French
was in a state of war
Only true religion
Only citadel against a tyrant and a
conqueror was distrust
Only kept alive by milk, which he drank
from a woman's breast
Only foundation fit for history,—
original contemporary document
Opening an abyss between government and
people
Opposed the subjection of the
magistracy by the priesthood
Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren
in facts
Orator was, however, delighted with his
own performance
Others that do nothing, do all, and
have all the thanks
Others go to battle, says the
historian, these go to war
Our pot had not gone to the fire as
often
Our mortal life is but a string of
guesses at the future
Outdoing himself in dogmatism and
inconsistency
Over excited, when his prejudices were
roughly handled
Panegyrists of royal houses in the
sixteenth century
Pardon for crimes already committed, or
about to be committed
Pardon for murder, if not by poison,
was cheaper
Partisans wanted not accommodation but
victory
Party hatred was not yet glutted with
the blood it had drunk
Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the
memory
Past was once the Present, and once the
Future
Pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn
Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea
Pauper client who dreamed of justice at
the hands of law
Paving the way towards atheism (by
toleration)
Paying their passage through, purgatory
Peace founded on the only secure basis,
equality of strength
Peace was desirable, it might be more
dangerous than war
Peace seemed only a process for
arriving at war
Peace and quietness is brought into a
most dangerous estate
Peace-at-any-price party
Peace, in reality, was war in its worst
shape
Peace was unattainable, war was
impossible, truce was inevitable
Peace would be destruction
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
Putting the cart before the oxen
Queen is entirely in the hands of Spain
and the priests
Questioning nothing, doubting nothing,
fearing nothing
Quite mistaken: in supposing himself
the Emperor's child
Radical, one who would uproot, is a man
whose trade is dangerous
Rarely able to command, having never
learned to obey
Rashness alternating with hesitation
Rather a wilderness to reign over than
a single heretic
Readiness to strike and bleed at any
moment in her cause
Readiness at any moment to defend
dearly won liberties
Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers
are to kneel
Reasonable to pay our debts rather than
to repudiate them
Rebuked him for his obedience
Rebuked the bigotry which had already
grown
Recall of a foreign minister for
alleged misconduct in office
Reformer who becomes in his turn a
bigot is doubly odious
Reformers were capable of giving a
lesson even to inquisitors
Religion was made the strumpet of
Political Ambition
Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the
line of demarcation
Religion was not to be changed like a
shirt
Religious toleration, which is a phrase
of insult
Religious persecution of Protestants by
Protestants
Repentance, as usual, had come many
hours too late
Repentant males to be executed with the
sword
Repentant females to be buried alive
Repose under one despot guaranteed to
them by two others
Repose in the other world, "Repos
ailleurs"
Republic, which lasted two centuries
Republics are said to be ungrateful
Repudiation of national debts was never
heard of before
Requires less mention than Philip III
himself
Resolve to maintain the civil authority
over the military
Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system
of ignorance
Respect for differences in religious
opinions
Result was both to abandon the
provinces and to offend Philip
Revocable benefices or feuds
Rich enough to be worth robbing
Righteous to kill their own children
Road to Paris lay through the gates of
Rome
Rose superior to his doom and took
captivity captive
Round game of deception, in which
nobody was deceived
Royal plans should be enforced
adequately or abandoned entirely
Ruinous honors
Rules adopted in regard to pretenders
to crowns
Sacked and drowned ten infant princes
Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully
obeying her orders
Safest citadel against an invader and a
tyrant is distrust
Sages of every generation, read the
future like a printed scroll
Saint Bartholomew's day
Sale of absolutions was the source of
large fortunes to the priests
Same conjury over ignorant baron and
cowardly hind
Scaffold was the sole refuge from the
rack
Scepticism, which delights in reversing
the judgment of centuries
Schism in the Church had become a
public fact
Schism which existed in the general
Reformed Church
Science of reigning was the science of
lying
Scoffing at the ceremonies and
sacraments of the Church
Secret drowning was substituted for
public burning
Secure the prizes of war without the
troubles and dangers
Security is dangerous
Seeking protection for and against the
people
Seem as if born to make the idea of
royalty ridiculous
Seemed bent on self-destruction
Seems but a change of masks, of
costume, of phraseology
Sees the past in the pitiless light of
the present
Self-assertion—the healthful but not
engaging attribute
Self-educated man, as he had been a
self-taught boy
Selling the privilege of eating eggs
upon fast-days
Senectus edam maorbus est
Sent them word by carrier pigeons
Sentiment of Christian self-complacency
Sentimentality that seems highly
apocryphal
Served at their banquets by hosts of
lackeys on their knees
Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven
thousand rebels
Sewers which have ever run beneath
decorous Christendom
Shall Slavery die, or the great
Republic?
Sharpened the punishment for reading
the scriptures in private
She relieth on a hope that will deceive
her
She declined to be his procuress
She knew too well how women were
treated in that country
Shift the mantle of religion from one
shoulder to the other
Shutting the stable-door when the steed
is stolen
Sick soldiers captured on the water
should be hanged
Sick and wounded wretches were burned
over slow fires
Simple truth was highest skill
Sixteen of their best ships had been
sacrificed
Slain four hundred and ten men with his
own hand
Slavery was both voluntary and
compulsory
Slender stock of platitudes
Small matter which human folly had
dilated into a great one
Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of
any substantial
So much responsibility and so little
power
So often degenerated into tyranny
(Calvinism)
So much in advance of his time as to
favor religious equality
So unconscious of her strength
Soldier of the cross was free upon his
return
Soldiers enough to animate the good and
terrify the bad
Solitary and morose, the necessary
consequence of reckless study
Some rude lessons from that vigorous
little commonwealth
Sometimes successful, even although
founded upon sincerity
Sonnets of Petrarch
Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed
of God
Spain was governed by an established
terrorism
Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen
Sparing and war have no affinity
together
Spendthrift of time, he was an
economist of blood
Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud
of his country
St. Peter's dome rising a little nearer
to the clouds
St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven
years longer
Stake or gallows (for) heretics to
transubstantiation
Stand between hope and fear
State can best defend religion by
letting it alone
States were justified in their almost
unlimited distrust
Steeped to the lips in sloth which
imagined itself to be pride
Storm by which all these treasures were
destroyed (in 7 days)
Strangled his nineteen brothers on his
accession
Strength does a falsehood acquire in
determined and skilful hand
String of homely proverbs worthy of
Sancho Panza
Stroke of a broken table knife
sharpened on a carriage wheel
Studied according to his inclinations
rather than by rule
Style above all other qualities seems
to embalm for posterity
Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the
mask of a friend
Succeeded so well, and had been
requited so ill
Successful in this step, he is ready
for greater ones
Such a crime as this had never been
conceived (bankruptcy)
Such an excuse was as bad as the
accusation
Suicide is confession
Superfluous sarcasm
Suppress the exercise of the Roman
religion
Sure bind, sure find
Sword in hand is the best pen to write
the conditions of peace
Take all their imaginations and
extravagances for truths
Talked impatiently of the value of my
time
Tanchelyn
Taxation upon sin
Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per
cent
Taxes upon income and upon consumption
Tempest of passion and prejudice
Ten thousand two hundred and twenty
individuals were burned
Tension now gave place to exhaustion
That vile and mischievous animal called
the people
That crowned criminal, Philip the
Second
That unholy trinity—Force; Dogma, and
Ignorance
That cynical commerce in human lives
That he tries to lay the fault on us is
pure malice
The tragedy of Don Carlos
The worst were encouraged with their
good success
The history of the Netherlands is
history of liberty
The great ocean was but a Spanish lake
The divine speciality of a few
transitory mortals
The sapling was to become the tree
The nation which deliberately carves
itself in pieces
The expenses of James's household
The Catholic League and the Protestant
Union
The blaze of a hundred and fifty
burning vessels
The magnitude of this wonderful
sovereign's littleness
The defence of the civil authority
against the priesthood
The assassin, tortured and torn by four
horses
The Gaul was singularly unchaste
The vivifying becomes afterwards the
dissolving principle
The bad Duke of Burgundy, Philip
surnamed "the Good,"
The greatest crime, however, was to be
rich
The more conclusive arbitration of
gunpowder
The disunited provinces
The noblest and richest temple of the
Netherlands was a wreck
The voice of slanderers
The calf is fat and must be killed
The illness was a convenient one
The egg had been laid by Erasmus,
hatched by Luther
The perpetual reproductions of history
The very word toleration was to sound
like an insult
The most thriving branch of national
industry (Smuggler)
The pigmy, as the late queen had been
fond of nicknaming him
The slightest theft was punished with
the gallows
The art of ruling the world by doing
nothing
The wisest statesmen are prone to
blunder in affairs of war
The Alcoran was less cruel than the
Inquisition
The People had not been invented
The small children diminished rapidly
in numbers
The busy devil of petty economy
The record of our race is essentially
unwritten
The truth in shortest about matters of
importance
The time for reasoning had passed
The effect of energetic, uncompromising
calumny
The evils resulting from a confederate
system of government
The vehicle is often prized more than
the freight
The faithful servant is always a
perpetual ass
The dead men of the place are my
intimate friends
The loss of hair, which brings on
premature decay
The personal gifts which are nature's
passport everywhere
The nation is as much bound to be
honest as is the individual
The fellow mixes blood with his colors!
Their existence depended on war
Their own roofs were not quite yet in a
blaze
Theological hatred was in full blaze
throughout the country
Theology and politics were one
There is no man who does not desire to
enjoy his own
There was but one king in Europe, Henry
the Bearnese
There are few inventions in morals
There was no use in holding language of
authority to him
There was apathy where there should
have been enthusiasm
There is no man fitter for that purpose
than myself
Therefore now denounced the man whom he
had injured
These human victims, chained and
burning at the stake
They had come to disbelieve in the
mystery of kingcraft
They chose to compel no man's
conscience
They could not invent or imagine
toleration
They knew very little of us, and that
little wrong
They have killed him, 'e ammazato,'
cried Concini
They were always to deceive every one,
upon every occasion
They liked not such divine right nor
such gentle-mindedness
They had at last burned one more
preacher alive
Things he could tell which are too
odious and dreadful
Thirty thousand masses should be said
for his soul
Thirty-three per cent. interest was
paid (per month)
Thirty Years' War tread on the heels of
the forty years
This Somebody may have been one whom we
should call Nobody
This, then, is the reward of forty
years' service to the State
This obstinate little republic
This wonderful sovereign's littleness
oppresses the imagination
Those who fish in troubled waters only
to fill their own nets
Those who "sought to swim between two
waters"
Those who argue against a foregone
conclusion
Thought that all was too little for him
Thousands of burned heretics had not
made a single convert
Three hundred fighting women
Three hundred and upwards are hanged
annually in London
Three or four hundred petty sovereigns
(of Germany)
Throw the cat against their legs
Thus Hand-weapen, hand-throwing, became
Antwerp
Time and myself are two
Tis pity he is not an Englishman
To think it capable of error, is the
most devilish heresy of all
To stifle for ever the right of free
enquiry
To attack England it was necessary to
take the road of Ireland
To hear the last solemn commonplaces
To prefer poverty to the wealth
attendant upon trade
To shirk labour, infinite numbers
become priests and friars
To doubt the infallibility of Calvin
was as heinous a crime
To negotiate with Government in England
was to bribe
To milk, the cow as long as she would
give milk
To work, ever to work, was the primary
law of his nature
To negotiate was to bribe right and
left, and at every step
To look down upon their inferior and
lost fellow creatures
Toil and sacrifices of those who have
preceded us
Tolerate another religion that his own
may be tolerated
Tolerating religious liberty had never
entered his mind
Toleration—that intolerable term of
insult
Toleration thought the deadliest heresy
of all
Torquemada's administration (of the
inquisition)
Torturing, hanging, embowelling of men,
women, and children
Tranquil insolence
Tranquillity rather of paralysis than
of health
Tranquillity of despotism to the
turbulence of freedom
Triple marriages between the respective
nurseries
Trust her sword, not her enemy's word
Twas pity, he said, that both should be
heretics
Twenty assaults upon fame and had forty
books killed under him
Two witnesses sent him to the stake,
one witness to the rack
Tyrannical spirit of Calvinism
Tyranny, ever young and ever old,
constantly reproducing herself
Uncouple the dogs and let them run
Under the name of religion (so many
crimes)
Understood the art of managing men,
particularly his superiors
Undue anxiety for impartiality
Unduly dejected in adversity
Unequivocal policy of slave
emancipation
Unimaginable outrage as the most
legitimate industry
Universal suffrage was not dreamed of
at that day
Unlearned their faith in bell, book,
and candle
Unproductive consumption being
accounted most sagacious
Unproductive consumption was alarmingly
increasing
Unremitted intellectual labor in an
honorable cause
Unwise impatience for peace
Upon their knees, served the queen with
wine
Upon one day twenty-eight master cooks
were dismissed
Upper and lower millstones of royal
wrath and loyal subserviency
Use of the spade
Usual phraseology of enthusiasts
Usual expedient by which bad
legislation on one side countered
Utter disproportions between the king's
means and aims
Utter want of adaptation of his means
to his ends
Uttering of my choler doth little ease
my grief or help my case
Uunmeaning phrases of barren benignity
Vain belief that they were men at
eighteen or twenty
Valour on the one side and discretion
on the other
Villagers, or villeins
Visible atmosphere of power the poison
of which
Volatile word was thought preferable to
the permanent letter
Vows of an eternal friendship of
several weeks' duration
Waiting the pleasure of a capricious
and despotic woman
Walk up and down the earth and destroy
his fellow-creatures
War was the normal and natural
condition of mankind
War was the normal condition of
Christians
War to compel the weakest to follow the
religion of the strongest
Was it astonishing that murder was more
common than fidelity?
Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening
the knife for himself
We were sold by their negligence who
are now angry with us
We believe our mothers to have been
honest women
We are beginning to be vexed
We must all die once
We have been talking a little bit of
truth to each other
We have the reputation of being a good
housewife
We mustn't tickle ourselves to make
ourselves laugh
Wealth was an unpardonable sin
Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity
by an enormous fine
Weapons
Weary of place without power
Weep oftener for her children than is
the usual lot of mothers
Weight of a thousand years of error
What exchequer can accept chronic
warfare and escape bankruptcy
What could save the House of Austria,
the cause of Papacy
What was to be done in this world and
believed as to the next
When persons of merit suffer without
cause
When all was gone, they began to eat
each other
When the abbot has dice in his pocket,
the convent will play
Whether dead infants were hopelessly
damned
Whether murders or stratagems, as if
they were acts of virtue
Whether repentance could effect
salvation
While one's friends urge moderation
Who the "people" exactly were
Who loved their possessions better than
their creed
Whole revenue was pledged to pay the
interest, on his debts
Whose mutual hatred was now artfully
inflamed by partisans
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange
William Brewster
Wise and honest a man, although he be
somewhat longsome
Wiser simply to satisfy himself
Wish to sell us the bear-skin before
they have killed the bear
Wish to appear learned in matters of
which they are ignorant
With something of feline and feminine
duplicity
Wonder equally at human capacity to
inflict and to endure misery
Wonders whether it has found its harbor
or only lost its anchor
Word peace in Spanish mouths simply
meant the Holy Inquisition
Word-mongers who, could clothe one
shivering thought
Words are always interpreted to the
disadvantage of the weak
Work of the aforesaid Puritans and a
few Jesuits
World has rolled on to fresher fields
of carnage and ruin
Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden
Worn nor caused to be worn the collar
of the serf
Worship God according to the dictates
of his conscience
Would not help to burn fifty or sixty
thousand Netherlanders
Wrath of the Jesuits at this exercise
of legal authority
Wrath of bigots on both sides
Wrath of that injured personage as he
read such libellous truths
Wringing a dry cloth for drops of
evidence
Write so illegibly or express himself
so awkwardly
Writing letters full of injured
innocence
Yes, there are wicked men about
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow
You must show your teeth to the
Spaniard
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