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 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
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Net
- 2: We must always have something to persecuteAlas
- 3: As these privateersmen designated themselvesBehead
- 4: And paper were profusely wasted and nothing gainedBrethren
- 5: After much contestationConceit
- 6: And unknit state needs no shaking
- 7: But nothing was securedEvil is coming
- 8: Or absolute foreknowledgeFather Cotton
- 9: According to ancient Batavian customHalcyon days of ban
- 10: Her bosom white and liberally exposed Eliz
- 11: Although offering the wholeHolland
- 12: Seemed sufficiently ironicalJames of England
- 13: Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Net
- 14: That thoughts are toll freeLutheran princes of Germany
- 15: Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Net
- 16: Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Net
- 17: Equality of strengthPeace was desirable
- 18: Petty passion for contemptible detailsPhilip II
- 19: Is a man whose trade is dangerousRarely able to command
- 20: Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Net
- 21: Peter's dome rising a little nearer to the cloudsSt
- 22: Philip the SecondThat unholy trinity Force
- 23: And that little wrongThey have killed him
- 24: The cow as long as she would give milkTo work
- 25: One witness to the rackTyrannical spirit of CalvinismTyranny
- 26: Entire History of the Netherlands http www