History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce--1609, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1861 - Netherlands |
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... desire to renew to that distinguished gentleman , and to that eminent scholar M. Bakhuy- zen van den Brink , the expression of my gratitude for their constant kindness and advice during my residence at the Hague . Nothing can exceed the ...
... desire to renew to that distinguished gentleman , and to that eminent scholar M. Bakhuy- zen van den Brink , the expression of my gratitude for their constant kindness and advice during my residence at the Hague . Nothing can exceed the ...
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... desire to express my thanks to his Excellency M. van de Weyer , the distin- guished representative of Belgium at the English Court , to whose friendly offices I am mainly indebted for the satisfaction of my wishes in this respect . A ...
... desire to express my thanks to his Excellency M. van de Weyer , the distin- guished representative of Belgium at the English Court , to whose friendly offices I am mainly indebted for the satisfaction of my wishes in this respect . A ...
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... desire for peace . Spain is making a Papistical league in Germany . Therefore is Asson- leville despatched thither , and that's the trash of priests are so insolent in the empire . how they are triumphing on all sides . them . Thou dear ...
... desire for peace . Spain is making a Papistical league in Germany . Therefore is Asson- leville despatched thither , and that's the trash of priests are so insolent in the empire . how they are triumphing on all sides . them . Thou dear ...
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... desire to oppose the progress of Spain towards universal empire , it was not surprising that the States General , not feeling capable of standing alone , should make their application to France . This they had done with the knowledge ...
... desire to oppose the progress of Spain towards universal empire , it was not surprising that the States General , not feeling capable of standing alone , should make their application to France . This they had done with the knowledge ...
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... desire.2 Des Pruneaux , accompanied by the two States ' envoys , departed forthwith for the Netherlands . On the 24th August , 24th Aug. , 1584 , he delivered a discourse before the States 1584. General , in which he disclosed , in very ...
... desire.2 Des Pruneaux , accompanied by the two States ' envoys , departed forthwith for the Netherlands . On the 24th August , 24th Aug. , 1584 , he delivered a discourse before the States 1584. General , in which he disclosed , in very ...
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Page i - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
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Page 138 - ... hand, full in the sunlight, though all the scene around him was wrapped in gloom — a noble, commanding shape, entitled to the admiration which the energetic display of great powers, however unscrupulous, must always command. A dark, meridional physiognomy, a quick, alert, imposing head ; jet black, close-clipped hair ; a bold eagle's face, with full, bright, restless eye ; a man rarely reposing, always ready, never alarmed ; living in the saddle, with harness on his back — such was the Prince...
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Page 382 - God hath stirred up this action," he repeated again, "to be a school to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England, which through these long times of peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted. Our delicacy is such that we are already weary, yet this journey is naught in respect to the misery and hardship that soldiers must and do endure.
Page 2 - Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns ;"2 the well-known result being that the traitor was hanged and the Sovereign saved. Yet such was the condition of Europe at that day. A small, dull, elderly, imperfectly-educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding under-jaw, and dreary visage, was sitting day after day, seldom speaking, never smiling, seven or eight hours out of every twenty-four, at a writing table covered with heaps of interminable despatches, in a cabinet...
Page 421 - We could never have imagined, had we not seen it fall out in experience, that a man raised up by ourself, and extraordinarily favoured by us above any other subject of this land...
Page 470 - ... one nor the other will willingly make their own retreat. Jesus! what availeth wit, when it fails the owner at greatest need? Do that you are bidden, and leave your considerations for your own affairs. For in some things you had clear commandment, which you did not, and in others none, and did. We princes be wary enough of our bargains. Think you I will be bound by your own speech to make no peace for mine own matters without their consent? It is enough that I injure not their country nor themselves...
Page 422 - ... in most undutiful a sort, you may not therefore think that we have so little care of the reparation thereof as we mind to pass so great a wrong in silence...