 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...high priests of history." " There wa» such general confidence in his sagacity, courage, acd peril*, that the nation had come to think with his brain and to a«; with his hand." Philip believed thai to get rid of Wiluam would be to render the suppression of... | |
 | Justin Dewey Fulton - Anti-Catholicism - 1884 - 226 pages
...Prince of Orange, had been murdered on the 10th of July, 1584. The disaster was apparently universal. " Habit, necessity, and the natural gifts of the man...come to think with his brain and to act with his hand !" He was dead. The cause remained. Under the rule of his enemy, Philip II., a small, dull, elderly,... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1900 - 488 pages
...Children of William the Silent— Provisional council of state— Firm attitude of Holland and Zealand— Weakness of Flanders— Fall of Ghent— Adroitness...be a feeling as of absolute and helpless paralysis. Netherlands,— and it would be difficult to define them with perfect accuracy, — there is 110 doubt... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 706 pages
...the little children cried in the streets.* CHAPTER IX LEICESTER IN THE LOW COUNTRIES [1584-1598 AD] WILLIAM THE SILENT, prince of Orange, had been murdered...be a feeling as of absolute and helpless paralysis. The ban of the pope and the offered gold of the king had accomplished a victory greater than any yet... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1907 - 710 pages
...the little children cried in the streets.*1 CHAPTER IX LEICESTER IN THE LOW COUNTRIES [1584r-1598 AD] WILLIAM THE SILENT, prince of Orange, had been murdered...be a feeling as of absolute and helpless paralysis. The ban of the pope and the offered gold of the king had accomplished a victory greater than any yet... | |
 | Civilization - 1907 - 584 pages
...by J. Miereveldt sity, and the natural gifts of the man," says Motley, " had combined to invest him with an authority which seemed more than human. There...that the nation had come to think with his brain and act with his hand." On the Spanish side of the Netherland stage, in this terrible drama of political-religious... | |
 | History - 1921 - 236 pages
..."a more universal disaster than the one thus brought about by the hand of a single obscure fanatic. Habit, necessity, and the natural gifts of the man,...that the nation had come to think with his brain and act with his hand. It was natural that, for an instant, there should be a feeling as of absolute and... | |
 | History - 1922 - 496 pages
..."a more universal disaster than the one thus brought about by the hand of a single obscure fanatic. Habit, necessity, and the natural gifts of the man,...that the nation had come to think with his brain and act with his hand. It was natural that, for an instant, there should be a feeling as of absolute and... | |
 | 1882 - 878 pages
...approaching. Habit, necessity, and the natural gifts of the man had combined, says Motley, " to invest him with an authority which seemed more than human. There...his sagacity, courage, and purity that the nation bad come to think with his brain and act with his hand." It is certain, too, that in Germany, as in... | |
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Habit, necessity, and the natural gifts of the man had combined to invest him at last with an authority which seemed more than human. There was such general confidence in his sagacity, courage, and purity that the nation had come to think with his brain... 