Chapter 2

Insinuating suspicions when unable to furnish evidence

Intellectual dandyisms of Bulwer

Intelligence, science, and industry were accounted degrading

Intense bigotry of conviction

Intentions of a government which did not know its own intentions

International friendship, the self-interest of each

Intolerable tendency to puns

Invaluable gift which no human being can acquire, authority

Invented such Christian formulas as these (a curse)

Inventing long speeches for historical characters

Invincible Armada had not only been vanquished but annihilated

Irresistible force in collision with an insuperable resistance

It was the true religion, and there was none other

It is not desirable to disturb much of that learned dust

It had not yet occurred to him that he was married

It is n't strategists that are wanted so much as believers

It is certain that the English hate us (Sully)

Its humility, seemed sufficiently ironical

James of England, who admired, envied, and hated Henry

Jealousy, that potent principle

Jesuit Mariana--justifying the killing of excommunicated kings

John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.

John Wier, a physician of Grave

John Robinson

John Quincy Adams

Judas Maccabaeus

July 1st, two Augustine monks were burned at Brussels

Justified themselves in a solemn consumption of time

Kindly shadow of oblivion

King who thought it furious madness to resist the enemy

King had issued a general repudiation of his debts

King set a price upon his head as a rebel

King of Zion to be pinched to death with red-hot tongs

King was often to be something much less or much worse

King's definite and final intentions, varied from day to day

Labored under the disadvantage of never having existed

Labour was esteemed dishonourable

Language which is ever living because it is dead

Languor of fatigue, rather than any sincere desire for peace

Leading motive with all was supposed to be religion

Learn to tremble as little at priestcraft as at swordcraft

Leave not a single man alive in the city, and to burn every house

Let us fool these poor creatures to their heart's content

Licences accorded by the crown to carry slaves to America

Life of nations and which we call the Past

Like a man holding a wolf by the ears

Little army of Maurice was becoming the model for Europe

Little grievances would sometimes inflame more than vast

Local self-government which is the life-blood of liberty

Logic of the largest battalions

Logic is rarely the quality on which kings pride themselves

Logical and historical argument of unmerciful length

Long succession of so many illustrious obscure

Longer they delay it, the less easy will they find it

Look through the cloud of dissimulation

Look for a sharp war, or a miserable peace

Looking down upon her struggle with benevolent indifference

Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns

Loud, nasal, dictatorial tone, not at all agreeable

Louis XIII.

Loving only the persons who flattered him

Ludicrous gravity

Luther's axiom, that thoughts are toll-free

Lutheran princes of Germany, detested the doctrines of Geneva

Luxury had blunted the fine instincts of patriotism

Made peace--and had been at war ever since

Made no breach in royal and Roman infallibility

Made to swing to and fro over a slow fire

Magistracy at that moment seemed to mean the sword

Magnificent hopefulness

Maintaining the attitude of an injured but forgiving Christian

Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you

Make the very name of man a term of reproach

Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom

Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign

Man had only natural wrongs (No natural rights)

Man had no rights at all He was property

Mankind were naturally inclined to calumny

Manner in which an insult shall be dealt with

Many greedy priests, of lower rank, had turned shop-keepers

Maritime heretics

Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for

Matters little by what name a government is called

Meantime the second civil war in France had broken out

Mediocrity is at a premium

Meet around a green table except as fencers in the field

Men were loud in reproof, who had been silent

Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity

Men who meant what they said and said what they meant

Mendacity may always obtain over innocence and credulity

Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause

Misanthropical, sceptical philosopher

Misery had come not from their being enemies

Mistake to stumble a second time over the same stone

Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into sincerity

Mockery of negotiation in which nothing could be negotiated

Modern statesmanship, even while it practises, condemns

Monasteries, burned their invaluable libraries

Mondragon was now ninety-two years old

Moral nature, undergoes less change than might be hoped

More accustomed to do well than to speak well

More easily, as he had no intention of keeping the promise

More catholic than the pope

More fiercely opposed to each other than to Papists

More apprehension of fraud than of force

Most detestable verses that even he had ever composed

Most entirely truthful child he had ever seen

Motley was twice sacrificed to personal feelings

Much as the blind or the deaf towards colour or music

Myself seeing of it methinketh that I dream

Names history has often found it convenient to mark its epochs

National character, not the work of a few individuals

Nations tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery

Natural to judge only by the result

Natural tendency to suspicion of a timid man

Nearsighted liberalism

Necessary to make a virtue of necessity

Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch

Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns

Necessity of kingship

Negotiated as if they were all immortal

Neighbour's blazing roof was likely soon to fire their own

Neither kings nor governments are apt to value logic

Neither wished the convocation, while both affected an eagerness

Neither ambitious nor greedy

Never peace well made, he observed, without a mighty war

Never did statesmen know better how not to do

Never lack of fishers in troubled waters

New Years Day in England, 11th January by the New Style

Night brings counsel

Nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed in on

No one can testify but a householder

No man can be neutral in civil contentions

No law but the law of the longest purse

No two books, as he said, ever injured each other

No retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs, and buildings

No great man can reach the highest position in our government

No man is safe (from news reporters)

No man could reveal secrets which he did not know

No authority over an army which they did not pay

No man pretended to think of the State

No synod had a right to claim Netherlanders as slaves

No qualities whatever but birth and audacity to recommend him

No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest

No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly

No calumny was too senseless to be invented

None but God to compel me to say more than I choose to say

Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence

Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained facts

Not distinguished for their docility

Not to let the grass grow under their feet

Not a single acquaintance in the place, and we glory in the fact

Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names

Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to bed

Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep nor crouch

Not strong enough to sustain many more such victories

Not to fall asleep in the shade of a peace negotiation

Not many more than two hundred Catholics were executed

Not upon words but upon actions

Not for a new doctrine, but for liberty of conscience

Not of the stuff of which martyrs are made (Erasmus)

Not so successful as he was picturesque

Nothing could equal Alexander's fidelity, but his perfidy

Nothing cheap, said a citizen bitterly, but sermons

Nothing was so powerful as religious difference

Notre Dame at Antwerp

Nowhere was the persecution of heretics more relentless

Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers

O God! what does man come to!

Obscure were thought capable of dying natural deaths

Obstinate, of both sexes, to be burned

Octogenarian was past work and past mischief

Of high rank but of lamentably low capacity

Often much tyranny in democracy

Often necessary to be blind and deaf

Oldenbarneveld; afterwards so illustrious

On the first day four thousand men and women were slaughtered

One-half to Philip and one-half to the Pope and Venice (slaves)

One-third of Philip's effective navy was thus destroyed

One golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude

One could neither cry nor laugh within the Spanish dominions

One of the most contemptible and mischievous of kings (James I)

Only healthy existence of the French was in a state of war

Only true religion

Only citadel against a tyrant and a conqueror was distrust

Only kept alive by milk, which he drank from a woman's breast

Only foundation fit for history,-- original contemporary document

Opening an abyss between government and people

Opposed the subjection of the magistracy by the priesthood

Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren in facts

Orator was, however, delighted with his own performance

Others that do nothing, do all, and have all the thanks

Others go to battle, says the historian, these go to war

Our pot had not gone to the fire as often

Our mortal life is but a string of guesses at the future

Outdoing himself in dogmatism and inconsistency

Over excited, when his prejudices were roughly handled

Panegyrists of royal houses in the sixteenth century

Pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be committed

Pardon for murder, if not by poison, was cheaper

Partisans wanted not accommodation but victory

Party hatred was not yet glutted with the blood it had drunk

Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory

Past was once the Present, and once the Future

Pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn

Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea

Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands of law

Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)

Paying their passage through, purgatory

Peace founded on the only secure basis, equality of strength

Peace was desirable, it might be more dangerous than war

Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war

Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate

Peace-at-any-price party

Peace, in reality, was war in its worst shape

Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce was inevitable

Peace would be destruction

Perfection of insolence

Perpetually dropping small innuendos like pebbles

Persons who discussed religious matters were to be put to death

Petty passion for contemptible details

Philip II. gave the world work enough

Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable

Philip IV.

Philip, who did not often say a great deal in a few words

Picturesqueness of crime

Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat

Plain enough that he is telling his own story

Planted the inquisition in the Netherlands

Played so long with other men's characters and good name

Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes ridiculous

Plundering the country which they came to protect

Poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats

Pope excommunicated him as a heretic

Pope and emperor maintain both positions with equal logic

Portion of these revenues savoured much of black-mail

Possible to do, only because we see that it has been done

Pot-valiant hero

Power the poison of which it is so difficult to resist

Power to read and write helped the clergy to much wealth

Power grudged rather than given to the deputies

Practised successfully the talent of silence

Pray here for satiety, (said Cecil) than ever think of variety

Preferred an open enemy to a treacherous protector

Premature zeal was prejudicial to the cause

Presents of considerable sums of money to the negotiators made

Presumption in entitling themselves Christian

Preventing wrong, or violence, even towards an enemy

Priests shall control the state or the state govern the priests

Princes show what they have in them at twenty-five or never

Prisoners were immediately hanged

Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work

Proceeds of his permission to eat meat on Fridays

Proclaiming the virginity of the Virgin's mother

Procrastination was always his first refuge

Progress should be by a spiral movement

Promises which he knew to be binding only upon the weak

Proposition made by the wolves to the sheep, in the fable

Protect the common tranquillity by blood, purse, and life

Provided not one Huguenot be left alive in France

Public which must have a slain reputation to devour

Purchased absolution for crime and smoothed a pathway to heaven

Puritanism in Holland was a very different thing from England

Put all those to the torture out of whom anything can be got

Putting the cart before the oxen

Queen is entirely in the hands of Spain and the priests

Questioning nothing, doubting nothing, fearing nothing

Quite mistaken: in supposing himself the Emperor's child

Radical, one who would uproot, is a man whose trade is dangerous

Rarely able to command, having never learned to obey

Rashness alternating with hesitation

Rather a wilderness to reign over than a single heretic

Readiness to strike and bleed at any moment in her cause

Readiness at any moment to defend dearly won liberties

Rearing gorgeous temples where paupers are to kneel

Reasonable to pay our debts rather than to repudiate them

Rebuked him for his obedience

Rebuked the bigotry which had already grown

Recall of a foreign minister for alleged misconduct in office

Reformer who becomes in his turn a bigot is doubly odious

Reformers were capable of giving a lesson even to inquisitors

Religion was made the strumpet of Political Ambition

Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the line of demarcation

Religion was not to be changed like a shirt

Religious toleration, which is a phrase of insult

Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants

Repentance, as usual, had come many hours too late

Repentant males to be executed with the sword

Repentant females to be buried alive

Repose under one despot guaranteed to them by two others

Repose in the other world, "Repos ailleurs"

Republic, which lasted two centuries

Republics are said to be ungrateful

Repudiation of national debts was never heard of before

Requires less mention than Philip III himself

Resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military

Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance

Respect for differences in religious opinions

Result was both to abandon the provinces and to offend Philip

Revocable benefices or feuds

Rich enough to be worth robbing

Righteous to kill their own children

Road to Paris lay through the gates of Rome

Rose superior to his doom and took captivity captive

Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived

Royal plans should be enforced adequately or abandoned entirely

Ruinous honors

Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns

Sacked and drowned ten infant princes

Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully obeying her orders

Safest citadel against an invader and a tyrant is distrust

Sages of every generation, read the future like a printed scroll

Saint Bartholomew's day

Sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes to the priests

Same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind

Scaffold was the sole refuge from the rack

Scepticism, which delights in reversing the judgment of centuries

Schism in the Church had become a public fact

Schism which existed in the general Reformed Church

Science of reigning was the science of lying

Scoffing at the ceremonies and sacraments of the Church

Secret drowning was substituted for public burning

Secure the prizes of war without the troubles and dangers

Security is dangerous

Seeking protection for and against the people

Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous

Seemed bent on self-destruction

Seems but a change of masks, of costume, of phraseology

Sees the past in the pitiless light of the present

Self-assertion--the healthful but not engaging attribute

Self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy

Selling the privilege of eating eggs upon fast-days

Senectus edam maorbus est

Sent them word by carrier pigeons

Sentiment of Christian self-complacency

Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal

Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their knees

Seven Spaniards were killed, and seven thousand rebels

Sewers which have ever run beneath decorous Christendom

Shall Slavery die, or the great Republic?

Sharpened the punishment for reading the scriptures in private

She relieth on a hope that will deceive her

She declined to be his procuress

She knew too well how women were treated in that country

Shift the mantle of religion from one shoulder to the other

Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen

Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged

Sick and wounded wretches were burned over slow fires

Simple truth was highest skill

Sixteen of their best ships had been sacrificed

Slain four hundred and ten men with his own hand

Slavery was both voluntary and compulsory

Slender stock of platitudes

Small matter which human folly had dilated into a great one

Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of any substantial

So much responsibility and so little power

So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism)

So much in advance of his time as to favor religious equality

So unconscious of her strength

Soldier of the cross was free upon his return

Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the bad

Solitary and morose, the necessary consequence of reckless study

Some rude lessons from that vigorous little commonwealth

Sometimes successful, even although founded upon sincerity

Sonnets of Petrarch

Sovereignty was heaven-born, anointed of God

Spain was governed by an established terrorism

Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen

Sparing and war have no affinity together

Spendthrift of time, he was an economist of blood

Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud of his country

St. Peter's dome rising a little nearer to the clouds

St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven years longer

Stake or gallows (for) heretics to transubstantiation

Stand between hope and fear

State can best defend religion by letting it alone

States were justified in their almost unlimited distrust

Steeped to the lips in sloth which imagined itself to be pride

Storm by which all these treasures were destroyed (in 7 days)

Strangled his nineteen brothers on his accession

Strength does a falsehood acquire in determined and skilful hand

String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza

Stroke of a broken table knife sharpened on a carriage wheel

Studied according to his inclinations rather than by rule

Style above all other qualities seems to embalm for posterity

Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a friend

Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill

Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones

Such a crime as this had never been conceived (bankruptcy)

Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation

Suicide is confession

Superfluous sarcasm

Suppress the exercise of the Roman religion

Sure bind, sure find

Sword in hand is the best pen to write the conditions of peace

Take all their imaginations and extravagances for truths

Talked impatiently of the value of my time

Tanchelyn

Taxation upon sin

Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent

Taxes upon income and upon consumption

Tempest of passion and prejudice

Ten thousand two hundred and twenty individuals were burned

Tension now gave place to exhaustion

That vile and mischievous animal called the people

That crowned criminal, Philip the Second

That unholy trinity--Force; Dogma, and Ignorance

That cynical commerce in human lives

That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice

The tragedy of Don Carlos

The worst were encouraged with their good success

The history of the Netherlands is history of liberty

The great ocean was but a Spanish lake

The divine speciality of a few transitory mortals

The sapling was to become the tree

The nation which deliberately carves itself in pieces

The expenses of James's household

The Catholic League and the Protestant Union

The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels

The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign's littleness

The defence of the civil authority against the priesthood

The assassin, tortured and torn by four horses

The Gaul was singularly unchaste

The vivifying becomes afterwards the dissolving principle

The bad Duke of Burgundy, Philip surnamed "the Good,"

The greatest crime, however, was to be rich

The more conclusive arbitration of gunpowder

The disunited provinces

The noblest and richest temple of the Netherlands was a wreck

The voice of slanderers

The calf is fat and must be killed

The illness was a convenient one

The egg had been laid by Erasmus, hatched by Luther

The perpetual reproductions of history

The very word toleration was to sound like an insult

The most thriving branch of national industry (Smuggler)

The pigmy, as the late queen had been fond of nicknaming him

The slightest theft was punished with the gallows

The art of ruling the world by doing nothing

The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs of war

The Alcoran was less cruel than the Inquisition

The People had not been invented

The small children diminished rapidly in numbers

The busy devil of petty economy

The record of our race is essentially unwritten

The truth in shortest about matters of importance

The time for reasoning had passed

The effect of energetic, uncompromising calumny

The evils resulting from a confederate system of government

The vehicle is often prized more than the freight

The faithful servant is always a perpetual ass

The dead men of the place are my intimate friends

The loss of hair, which brings on premature decay

The personal gifts which are nature's passport everywhere

The nation is as much bound to be honest as is the individual

The fellow mixes blood with his colors!

Their existence depended on war

Their own roofs were not quite yet in a blaze

Theological hatred was in full blaze throughout the country

Theology and politics were one

There is no man who does not desire to enjoy his own

There was but one king in Europe, Henry the Bearnese

There are few inventions in morals

There was no use in holding language of authority to him

There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm

There is no man fitter for that purpose than myself

Therefore now denounced the man whom he had injured

These human victims, chained and burning at the stake

They had come to disbelieve in the mystery of kingcraft

They chose to compel no man's conscience

They could not invent or imagine toleration

They knew very little of us, and that little wrong

They have killed him, 'e ammazato,' cried Concini

They were always to deceive every one, upon every occasion

They liked not such divine right nor such gentle-mindedness

They had at last burned one more preacher alive

Things he could tell which are too odious and dreadful

Thirty thousand masses should be said for his soul

Thirty-three per cent. interest was paid (per month)

Thirty Years' War tread on the heels of the forty years

This Somebody may have been one whom we should call Nobody

This, then, is the reward of forty years' service to the State

This obstinate little republic

This wonderful sovereign's littleness oppresses the imagination

Those who fish in troubled waters only to fill their own nets