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'Tis full of wrangling and discord about religion, and yet there is the Turk with two hundred thousand men besieging a place forty miles from Vienna, which is the last outpost. God grant it may last!" Such was the aspect of the Christian world at the close of the year 1594 From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce 1609 By John Lothrop Motley
Early next morning, Laura sent me a note: "DEAR MARGARET, I have an ague, and mean to have it till Sunday night. The pines did it. Did you bring home any needles? On Monday, mother will give one of her whist-parties. I shall add a dozen or two of our set; you will come. "P.S. What do you think of Mr. Harry Lothrop? Good young man, eh?"
The only system by which the two religions could live together in peace had been discovered by the Prince; but toleration, in the eyes of Catholics, and of many Protestants, was still thought the deadliest heresy of all. By John Lothrop Motley 1855
Alternation between hope and despair, between culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence, are but too apt to mark the warlike counsels of politicians who have not been bred soldiers. This, at least, had been eminently the case with Barneveld and his colleagues of the States-General. From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce 1609 By John Lothrop Motley
The rank and file of the states' army were mainly mercenaries, with whom the hope of plunder was the prevailing motive; the chief commanders were absent; while those officers who were with the troops were neither heartily friendly to their own flag nor sufficiently experienced to make it respected. By John Lothrop Motley 1855
Should his Majesty, however, prefer to continue Don John in the government, they signified their willingness, in consideration of his natural good qualities, to make the best of the matter. Should, however, the estrangement between themselves and the Governor seem irremediable, they begged that another and a legitimate prince of the blood might be appointed in his place. By John Lothrop Motley
This was like a whisper of God from the sea, bidding me keep heart and hope." And now, after all those thirteen years of almost superhuman struggle and that one moment of almost superhuman victory, I think we may safely include Cyrus Field among the masters of the situation. From "Speeches and Lectures," with the permission of Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, Boston, publishers.
Lothrop Motley, who stood among the very best, said to him early in his apprenticeship that the London dinner and the English country house were the perfection of human society. The young man meditated over it, uncertain of its meaning.
It was not an ignoble spectacle to see those veterans kneeling where there was scarce room to kneel, amid ruin and desolation, to praise the Lord for his mercies. But to explain this general thanksgiving it is now necessary for a moment to go back. From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce 1609 By John Lothrop Motley
I think it my part to send your Lordship this as it is, rather than to be silent." And with these rather ominous insinuations the envoy concluded for the time his narrative. From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce 1609 By John Lothrop Motley
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