Quotations from John L. Motley Works by John Lothrop Motley
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HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1600 by Motley[#73][jm73v10.txt]4873 Alas! the benighted victims of superstition hugged their chains Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs of war HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1600-02 by Motley[#74][jm74v10.txt]4874 Constitute themselves at once universal legatees Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could imagine Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds) War was the normal and natural condition of mankind HISTORY UNITED NETHERLANDS, 1602-03 by Motley[#75][jm75v10.txt]4875 Bestowing upon others what was not his property Four weeks' holiday--the first in eleven years Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed brains Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory Prisoners were immediately hanged |
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