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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAlexander Alexander Farnese Antwerp Arch archduke army artillery attempt battle Bearnese Bentivoglio besieged Brussels Burghley camp campaign Caron Catholic cause cavalry Coloma command Count crown death Deventer Dondini Duke of Guise Duke of Mayenne Duke of Parma Dutch Elizabeth enemy England English envoy Ernest Farnese force France French Fuentes garrison Gertruydenberg governor Groningen Hague hand Henry Henry's heretic Holland holy honour horse Huguenot human hundred Ibid Infanta infantry King of Spain king's kingdom League Leaguers letter Lewis William Majesty Mansfeld March Maurice of Nassau Meantime Meteren military monarch Moreo Nassau negotiations Netherlands never nobles obedient Paris Parma to Philip peace pope Prince Maurice provinces queen religion republic Reyd royal sent siege Simancas soldiers soon sovereign Spaniards Spanish stadholder States-General surrender teqq Thou tion town troops ubi tup Verdugo veterans whole William William the Silent Ybarra Zeeland Popular passagesPage 541 - nothing should ever come that is not filled with those five qualities, and that to see and hear him he should appear all piety, all faith, all integrity, all humanity, all religion. And nothing is more necessary than to seem to have this last-mentioned quality. Every one sees what you seem, few perceive what you are. Page 451 - several minutes longer. Never did envoy receive such a setting down from sovereign. " God's death, my lords! " said the queen to her ministers, as she concluded, " I have been enforced this day to scour up my old Latin that hath lain long in rusting. Page 171 - those times past, the loves, the sighs, the sorrows, the desires, can they not weigh down one frail misfortune? Cannot one drop of gall be hidden in so great heaps of sweetness Page 569 - Gerrit de Veer, with simple pathos, " as if we were having a splendid banquet at home. We imagined ourselves in the fatherland with all our friends, so much did we enjoy our repast." That nothing might be omitted, lots were drawn for king, and the choice fell on the gunner, who was forthwith Page 444 - thought that a wholesome example might be set to humbler heretics by the spectacle of a public execution. Two maiden ladies lived on the north rampart of Antwerp. They had formerly professed the Protestant religion, and had been thrown into prison for that crime; but the fear Page 444 - further persecution, human weakness, or perhaps sincere conviction, had caused them to renounce the error of their ways, and they now went to mass. But they had a maidservant, forty years of age, Anna van den Hove by name, who was staunch in that reformed faith in which she had been born and bred. The Jesuits denounced this Page 107 - work lying between two strong walls of masonry. The breach being deemed practicable, a storm was ordered. To reach the Kaye it was necessary to cross a piece of water called the Haven, over which a pontoon bridge was hastily thrown. There was now a dispute among the English, Scotch, and Page 538 - believer in himself, and in what he called his religion, that he was enabled to perpetrate such a long catalogue of crimes. When an humble malefactor is brought before an ordinary court of justice, it is not often, in any age or country, that he escapes the pillory or the gallows because, from his Page 38 - master"'* Certainly it was worth an eighty years' war to drive such blasphemous madness as this out of human heads, whether crowned or shaven. There was likewise a diet held during the summer of this year, of the circles of the empire nearest to the Netherlands—Westphalia, Cleves, Juliers, and Saxony—from which commissioners were Page 65 - Madame Montpensier's cake, because the duchess earnestly proclaimed its merits to the poor Parisians. " She was never known to taste it herself, however," bitterly observed one who lived in Paris through that horrible summer. She was right to abstain, for all who ate of it died, and the Montpensier flour fell into disuse. References from web pagesHistory of the United Netherlands, 1592-94 by John Lothrop Motley ... Free Books > History > Europe > General > History Of The United ... Project Gutenberg Edition of History of the United Netherlands ... Read the ebook History of the United Netherlands, 1588c by John ... NEW PUBLICATIONS.; MOTLEY'S UNITED NETHERLANDS. HENRY OF NAVARRE. Schulers Books (<!--SUBSTBOOKTITLE-->) The Project Gutenberg ebook History of United Netherlands, 1597-98 John Lothrop Motley: Biography and Much More from Answers.com Books: Online Literature Library - onelang.com §21. "John of Barneveld;" Court of St. James; Autobiographical ... Bibliographic information
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