item: #1 of 121
          id: 14037
      author: Butler, Charles
       title: The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
        date: None
       words: 56786
      flesch: 62
     summary: From the coarseness of their dress, they acquired the name of _gueux_ or _beggars_, and retained it throughout the whole of the troubles which followed. On some of those, a _speedy_ reunion of Christians is not to be expected: but, to use the language of Mr. _Vansittart_, in His excellent letter to the reverend Dr. Marsh and John Coker, Esq., There is an inferior degree of Reunion, more within our prospect, and yet perhaps as perfect as human infirmity allows us to hope for; wherein, though all differences of opinion, should not be extinguished, yet they may be refined, from all party prejudices, and interested views, so softened by the spirit of charity, and mutual concession, and so controuled by agreement, on the leading principles, and zeal, for the general interests of christianity, that no sect, or persuasion, should be tempted to make religion, subservient to secular views, or to employ political power, to the prejudice of others.--The existence of Dissent, will, perhaps, be inseparable from religious freedom, so long, as the mind of man, is liable to error: but it is not unreasonable to hope, that hostility, may cease, though perfect agreement, cannot be established.
    keywords: 8vo; a.d; account; acknowledged; acts; alcuin; ambassador; amsterdam; answer; antient; antiquity; appellation; application; appointment; archbishop; arminians; arminius; arms; army; articles; assembly; attempts; attention; austria; authority; barneveldt; belief; belli; best; birth; bishop; body; books; bossuet; boundaries; brethren; british; brother; burgundy; burigni; business; calvin; calvinists; canons; cardinal; catholic; cause; celebrated; century; certain; chancellor; chap; chapter; charge; charity; charlemagne; charles; chest; christ; christians; church; churches; circumstances; cities; city; civil; claim; clerc; commissioners; communion; concerns; conduct; confession; consequence; considerable; constitution; contra; contrary; controversy; correspondence; council; countries; country; court; creed; day; death; decease; dedicated; defence; degree; deputies; des; design; different; disciples; discipline; discussion; disputes; distinguished; divines; doctor; doctrine; dominions; dort; duke; dupin; dynasty; early; east; ecclesiastical; edict; edition; education; effect; election; embassy; emperor; empire; england; english; episcopius; erasmus; errors; escape; essential; esteem; europe; events; excellent; exertions; faith; family; far; father; favour; favourable; feelings; following; footnote; foreign; formularies; fortune; fourteenth; france; frederick; free; french; friends; friesland; fundamental; general; geography; germany; god; good; government; grace; grand; great; greater; greatest; greek; grotius; gueldres; gustavus; hague; hands; head; henry; high; historical; history; holland; holy; honour; house; hugo; human; iii; important; imprisonment; independence; influence; interesting; italy; james; jesus; john; judgment; jure; jurisprudence; justice; king; kingdom; labours; language; large; latin; law; laws; learned; learning; leave; left; leibniz; length; letter; lewis; liberty; life; literary; literature; little; long; louvestein; lutheran; manner; marriage; maurice; means; measure; members; memory; mention; merit; military; mind; ministers; moderation; modern; molanus; monarch; mosheim; music; nations; nature; necessary; netherlands; neustadt; new; noble; number; numerous; object; office; opinion; orange; order; original; overyssell; pacification; page; paris; particular; parties; party; passages; pensionary; people; perfect; period; persecution; persons; philip; place; poets; points; pope; portion; power; praise; present; president; prince; principal; principles; private; proceedings; professor; project; protestant; provinces; public; publication; purpose; queen; question; rank; read; reader; real; reason; reformation; reformed; regard; regular; religion; religious; remonstrants; republic; reputation; respect; reunion; rhine; right; roman; rome; royal; sacred; salvation; saxon; schools; science; scriptures; sea; second; sect; sense; sentiments; session; short; sidenote; sir; society; sovereign; spain; spirit; stadtholderate; states; states general; strength; study; style; suabian; subject; success; successful; surprising; sweden; symbolic; synod; system; talents; taste; terms; territories; testament; theological; theology; thing; thought; time; title; translation; treatise; treaty; trent; trial; true; truth; united; united provinces; universal; useful; utmost; utrecht; verses; view; vii; vol; volume; vorstius; war; way; west; wife; william; wish; words; work; world; writers; writings; xii; xiv; year; zealand
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        item: #2 of 121
          id: 15606
      author: Burigny, M. de (Jean Lévesque)
       title: The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works
        date: None
       words: 129864
      flesch: 69
     summary: Anne of Austria, queen, is declared regent during the minority of her son Lewis XIV., 230 Gives Grotius an audience, 231. Adrian Cattenburg _have indeed published a long Life of_ Grotius; _but the_
    keywords: account; acknowledged; acquaint grotius; acquainted; advanced; advantage; advice; advocate; affairs; afraid; age; agreeable; alliance; allies; ambassador; amsterdam; ancient; answer; anthologia; antichrist; antiquity; apology; appears; approbation; april; aratus; arminians; arminius; army; arrival; articles; assembly; assistance; attention; audience; august; author; authority; bad; barnevelt; beginning; believe; best; birth; bishops; body; book; brother; business; calvin; capella; cardinal; care; casaubon; catholic; cause; celebrated; certain; chancellor; change; chapter; character; chavigny; chest; children; christ; christian; christina; church; churches; cities; city; civil; clerc; collection; command; commentary; common; communicated; communion; compliment; concerning; condition; conduct; condé; conference; consent; consequence; considerable; consideration; contrary; conversation; copy; cornelius; correspondence; council; counsels; countries; country; court; credit; crown; day; days; death; december; declared; decree; defence; delft; deputies; design; desire; desirous; determined; diederic; different; difficulties; difficulty; dignity; dispute; dissatisfied; divine; doctrine; dort; doubt; duke; dutch; duty; earl; edict; edition; effect; elector; elogium; embassy; eminence; emperor; employment; enemies; enemy; england; english; entry; epigrams; erudition; esteem; esteemed; europe; example; excellent; execution; expence; express; extraordinary; faith; family; famous; father; fault; favour; favourable; february; fine; following; footnotes; force; fortune; france; francis; frederic; free; french; friends; friendship; general; genius; gerard; germany; glory; god; gomarists; good; grace; grand; great; great grotius; great man; greater; greatest; greek; groot; grotii; grotius; gustavus; hague; hamburg; hand; happy; hatred; head; health; heart; heinsius; henry; high; high chancellor; highest; history; hitherto; holland; holy; honour; hopes; house; hugo grotius; husband; ibid; idea; illustrious; important; inclination; informed; instructions; intentions; interest; intimate; james; jesus; john; john grotius; joseph; journey; judges; judgment; july; june; justice; keeper; kind; king; kingdom; knowledge; known; labour; language; large; latin; law; laws; learned; learning; leave; leicester; length; letter; lewis; leyden; liberty; life; like; literature; little; long; lord; loss; louvestein; love; magistrates; majesty; man; manner; manuscripts; march; marriage; marshal; master; matters; maurice; maurier; mean; measures; men; mention; merit; method; mind; ministers; ministry; money; month; mother; nassau; nations; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; negotiation; new; news; nominated; notice; november; number; occasion; ocean; october; offer; offices; old; opinion; opportunity; orange; order; original; oxenstiern; palatine; pardon; paris; particular; parties; party; passages; payment; peace; pensionary; people; perfect; permission; persons; persuaded; petau; peter grotius; pieces; places; pleased; pleasure; poems; poet; point; pope; possession; power; powerful; praise; precedency; predestination; preface; prejudice; present; president; pressed; pretended; prince; principal; principles; printed; prison; prisoner; private; probable; progress; project; promises; proofs; proper; protection; protestants; provinces; public; puffendorf; purposed; quality; queen; question; reading; ready; reason; reconciliation; recourse; reformed; regard; relation; religion; remarks; remonstrants; report; republic; reputation; resolution; respect; return; richelieu; right; rise; roman; rome; romish; rotterdam; sacred; salmasius; salvation; satisfaction; satisfied; scaliger; scarce; schmalz; scriptures; sea; seals; second; secretary; sending; sense; sentence; sentiments; separate; september; service; shews; short; situation; small; socinianism; soldiers; son; spain; speaking; spirit; spread; states; step; stobæus; stockholm; studies; study; subject; subsidies; success; sufficient; support; sweden; swedish; synod; taking; terms; testament; theological; things; thought; time; time grotius; title; town; tragedy; translation; treated; treatise; treaty; troops; troubles; truce; truth; uneasiness; union; united; university; use; useful; utrecht; venetian; verses; vert; viii; visit; vossius; war; way; weymar; wife; william grotius; words; work; world; writing; xiii; xiv; year; young grotius; youth; zeal; zealous
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        item: #3 of 121
          id: 16518
      author: Fitzgerald, Percy
       title: A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
        date: None
       words: 17495
      flesch: 73
     summary: Yet it boasts its 'grand' _place_, imposing enough as a memorial of departed greatness, and, as usual, a Flemish relic, in the shape of a charming belfry and town-hall combined. Like the old Calais watch-tower, it was caked round by, and embedded in, old houses, and had its four curious gargoyles still doing work.
    keywords: air; antique; approach; arras; astonishing; away; belfry; belgian; belgium; bell; bergues; black; brick; bright; building; business; bustle; busy; calais; carriages; cathedral; centre; charming; chimes; church; cities; city; class; close; coloured; commines; corner; country; course; crowded; curious; dark; day; days; dead; deep; depart; dessein; different; door; douai; dover; dream; effect; elegant; end; english; enormous; extraordinary; eyes; familiar; fashioned; feeling; figures; fine; flemish; foreign; fortified; fortress; france; french; garden; gate; gay; general; good; grand; great; green; grim; half; hall; handsome; harbour; harry; head; high; home; hours; houses; huge; hôtel; idea; illustration; interesting; jangling; kind; large; left; life; lighthouse; lights; like; lille; little; local; london; long; look; low; man; mass; memory; midnight; modern; monument; music; musical; narrow; near; new; night; noble; note; novel; number; o'clock; objects; old; old town; omer; original; packet; paris; past; pattern; people; perfect; picturesque; pier; place; pleasant; poetical; poor; portion; quaint; railway; red; rich; road; roof; room; round; rusted; scene; sea; second; set; shadowy; shape; shops; small; solemn; sort; spacious; spanish; spires; station; stone; strange; streets; striking; style; sudden; sun; surprise; tall; theatre; things; thought; time; tower; town; train; traveller; travelling; trees; turn; usual; vast; vessel; victoria; walk; walls; watch; welcome; wheezy; white; windows; women; wonder; work; years
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        item: #4 of 121
          id: 18670
      author: Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
       title: Bruges and West Flanders
        date: None
       words: 34403
      flesch: 66
     summary: Victoria, Queen, at Bruges Walburge, Ste., Church of, at Bruges; at Furnes Walcheren Waterloo, Battle of Weavers, Guild of Wenduyne Westcapelle Westende, village; Plage William, Bishop of Ancona York, Duke of, at Bruges _et seq._ Ypres; field preaching near; churches sacked; taken by Parma; by the Protestants; Place du Musée; besieged by Louis XIV.; fortified by Vauban; ceded to France; described by Vauban in 1689; taken by the French in 1794; during the Hundred Days; end of military history; Grand Place and Cloth Hall; monopoly of weaving linen; manages with Bruges the Hanseatic League in Flanders; the Nieuwerck; riots at; siege of, by English _et seq._; John of Ypres describes early Bruges Yser Zwijn Zuyder Zee Thus the boundaries of early Bruges can easily be traced; but nothing remains of the ancient buildings, though we read of a warehouse, booths, and a prison, besides the dwelling-houses of the townsfolk.
    keywords: abbey; abbot; ages; albert; altar; ancient; antwerp; archduke; arms; army; aveugle; baldwin; battle; beer; beginning; belfry; belgium; bishop; black; blankenberghe; blood; boats; bourg; bras; breidel; bridge; bruges; bruges bruges; bruges church; brussels; building; burchard; burghers; burgundy; business; busy; béguinage; canal; cathedral; centuries; century; channel; chapel; chapter; charles; chief; church; churches; châtillon; city; close; cloth; coast; commercial; complete; comte; condition; coninck; corner; cottages; country; course; court; coxyde; cross; curious; damme; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; des; digue; distance; donatian; doors; dunes; dutch; early; east; edward; end; england; english; erembalds; europe; evening; face; fair; fall; famous; feet; fer; fields; fire; flanders; flemings; flemish; footnote; force; form; fortifications; fourteenth; france; french; furnes; gables; ghent; golden; golf; good; government; grand; great; green; half; hall; hands; harbour; head; heavy; heyst; high; historical; history; holy; home; hours; houses; hôtel; iii; illustration; important; inhabitants; inland; interest; interesting; isabella; jerusalem; john; joseph; july; june; justice; king; knocke; large; league; left; letter; life; like; line; little; lombaerdzyde; long; loss; louis; low; magistrates; man; market; mass; matins; men; merchants; middle; miles; modern; money; morning; narrow; near; netherlands; new; nicholas; nieuport; night; north; notre; number; old; order; ostend; palais; panne; parts; pass; past; penitents; people; period; persons; peter; philip; picturesque; place; plain; poor; pope; population; porte; portion; present; private; procession; prosperity; public; quai; queen; quiet; railway; ramparts; red; relic; religious; remains; rest; revolution; rich; rise; round; roya; rue; rule; sand; sauveur; scene; scenery; sea; sebastian; seq; ships; short; siege; silence; sir; sluis; small; society; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; spurs; square; state; stones; straight; streets; strong; summer; system; thick; thierry; thirteenth; tide; time; tower; town; trade; trees; van; village; ville; walburge; walls; war; water; waves; way; west; west flanders; westende; white; wide; windows; winter; women; wood; works; world; years; young; ypres; zwijn
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        item: #5 of 121
          id: 18959
      author: Gibson, Hugh
       title: A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
        date: None
       words: 109099
      flesch: 75
     summary: We are put on German time to-day. The restaurant was half filled with German officers, who were dining with great gusto.
    keywords: ---+; = =; able; account; action; advance; affairs; afternoon; allies; american; answer; antwerp; anxious; appeal; arms; army; arrangements; arrest; artillery; aside; attack; attempt; attention; august; authorities; authority; away; bad; bank; baron; barricade; battery; battle; bed; beginning; belgian; belgian government; belgian troops; belgium; berlin; best; better; big; blount; bombardment; boulevard; boy; bringing; british; broke; brussels; building; bulle; burgomaster; burst; business; busy; calm; camp; car; care; cars; case; cathedral; cavalry; cavell; certain; chance; chap; charge; chauffeur; cheering; chief; children; château; circumstances; citizens; city; civilians; civique; clear; closed; colleagues; colonel; comfort; coming; command; commanding; commission; committee; communication; conditions; consul; consulate; convinced; corps; country; couple; course; court; cover; cross; crowd; curious; danger; dark; davis; day; days; dead; deal; death; decision; department; der; destruction; diest; different; dinner; direction; door; doubt; ducane; dutch; duty; early; earth; edge; effect; end; enemy; engagement; england; english; enthusiasm; entire; evening; eyes; face; fact; fairholme; family; farther; fear; feeling; feet; field; fighting; fine; fire; firing; flag; following; food; foot; footnote; force; foreign; forts; forward; france; francis; free; french; friend; friendly; frightened; frontier; garde; general; general von; german; german army; german authorities; german general; german government; german legation; german military; german minister; german officers; german soldiers; german time; german troops; getting; ghent; glad; goltz; good; good time; government; governor; great; ground; group; guard; guns; hague; half; hall; hand; hard; harm; headquarters; heavy; help; high; hold; holland; home; honour; hoover; hope; hospital; hostile; hotel; hour; houses; hundreds; idea; illustration; infantry; information; inside; instructions; interest; interesting; jack; jarotzky; jeffes; keeping; kilometers; king; knowledge; laisser; lancken; large; later; latest; law; lay; leave; leaving; left; legation; les; letters; leval; life; like; lines; little; little way; living; liège; local; london; long; longer; look; loss; lot; louvain; lunch; lüttwitz; machine; majesty; major; malines; march; marshal; matter; max; members; messages; meuse; midnight; miles; military; mind; minister; minutes; miss; moment; money; monsieur; months; morning; morrow; motor; moving; mrs; namur; near; necessary; need; neighbourhood; nervous; news; newspapers; night; note; notice; november; number; nurses; o'clock; october; officer; official; old; open; operations; order; orderly; outposts; outside; papers; party; pass; passer; passing; past; patrols; peasants; people; permission; pieces; place; pleasant; point; poor; population; porte; position; possible; post; pour; prepared; presence; present; pretty; prime; prisoners; proclamation; progress; protection; public; queen; question; quiet; railway; ready; real; reason; refugees; relief; remarks; reply; report; resistance; rest; result; retreat; return; road; room; run; running; safe; satisfaction; save; second; secretary; sentence; september; servants; service; set; shaler; shells; shot; siege; signs; sir; sitting; situation; sleep; small; smoke; soldiers; sort; spanish; special; speech; spies; square; staff; standing; start; state; statement; station; stay; steps; stop; stories; story; straight; street; subject; sunday; supplies; supply; sure; taking; talk; telegrams; telegraph; telephone; telling; terrible; territory; text; things; think; thought; time; town; train; tremendous; trial; trip; troops; trouble; turn; unable; uniform; usual; view; village; ville; visit; von; waiting; walls; war; washington; watch; way; week; white; whitlock; wife; window; wine; women; wonderful; word; work; working; wounded; yards; years; yesterday; young
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        item: #6 of 121
          id: 19692
      author: Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
       title: Peeps at Many Lands: Belgium
        date: None
       words: 22104
      flesch: 82
     summary: There are many other towns in Belgium besides those we have been looking at: Louvain, with its ancient University; Liége and Charleroi, with their steel and iron works; Courtrai, celebrated for the manufacture of linen; Tournai, where carpets are made; Mons, with its coal-mines; and more besides, which all lie within the narrow limits of this small country. This is the prettiest part of Belgium, and in summer many people, who do not care for going to the seaside, spend the holidays at the towns and villages which are dotted about in the valleys and among the hills and woods.
    keywords: allan; antwerp; archers; army; battle; belgian; belgium; best; big; black; book; bourgeoisie; boys; bread; bruges; brussels; carnival; carriage; catholics; chapter; charles; children; christmas; church; city; class; clothes; colour; communion; congo; country; course; crowd; curious; customs; dancing; day; days; deal; different; digue; door; drinking; dutch; end; england; english; europe; evermaire; families; family; famous; father; flags; flanders; flemish; france; french; friends; game; ghent; girls; good; great; hacco; half; hands; happy; history; home; house; illustrations; john; king; kingdom; lady; language; large; leave; leopold; life; little; live; liége; long; man; market; married; martin; means; men; meuse; middle; monday; money; morning; mother; music; netherlands; new; night; number; old; open; outside; page; page illustrations; parents; parts; people; petite; philip; pilgrims; place; playing; poor; possible; presents; procession; public; railway; rest; rich; river; round; run; saint; sand; scheldt; school; sea; short; singing; small; society; soldiers; son; south; square; state; stewart; story; streets; strong; summer; thing; time; town; trade; train; trees; valley; village; war; water; way; week; white; windows; winter; woman; work; world; year; young
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        item: #7 of 121
          id: 27442
      author: Cammaerts, Emile
       title: Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
        date: None
       words: 91575
      flesch: 56
     summary: If Belgian irredentism proved very strong at the beginning, it gradually diminished, owing mainly to the fact that the patriots, on both sides of the frontier, were unable to entertain any hope of reunion during the long period of neutrality which paralysed Belgian foreign policy. But, through the works accomplished in other countries and with the help of a few documents such as the inventory preserved in the _Chronicle of St. Trond_, we are able at least to appreciate not only their intrinsic value, but also the interest they awoke among clerics and laymen.
    keywords: able; accomplished; account; action; active; activity; administration; advantages; affairs; ages; agricultural; aix; albert; alliance; allies; ancient; annexation; antwerp; apparent; archduke; architecture; aristocracy; armies; army; arras; art; articles; artisans; artistic; artists; artois; aspirations; attacks; attempt; attention; attitude; august; austrian; authority; balance; baldwin; barrier; battle; beginning; belgian; belgian people; belgian provinces; belgium; benefit; best; bishopric; bishops; bold; bourgeois; brabant; brabançonne; break; breughel; britain; british; brothers; bruges; brussels; burgundian; burgundy; calvinist; cambrai; campaign; capital; cathedral; catholic; cause; central; centralization; centre; centuries; century; certain; chapelle; chapter; character; characteristic; charlemagne; charles; church; churches; circumstances; citizens; city; civilization; claim; classes; clergy; close; cloth; coal; coast; cologne; commercial; common; communes; complete; concerned; conditions; confederation; conference; conflict; congo; congress; conquest; conscience; considerable; constitution; contact; contrast; control; convention; council; countries; country; counts; course; court; creation; crown; culture; customs; danger; daughter; day; days; deal; death; decadence; defence; delegates; determined; developed; development; devoted; different; difficulties; direct; direction; distinct; districts; divided; division; domains; doubt; duke; dutch; dynastic; dynasty; early; east; ecclesiastical; economic; education; edward; efforts; eighteenth; eleventh; emperor; empire; enemy; england; english; enthusiasm; entry; equal; essential; europe; european; events; evident; example; exception; excesses; exchange; existence; expression; extended; extent; extraordinary; eyck; fact; failure; faith; fall; farnese; fate; father; favour; favoured; features; feeling; feudal; fifteenth; flanders; flemings; flemish; followers; following; forces; foreign; foundation; fourteenth; france; frankish; franks; free; freedom; french; french king; frontier; future; general; german; germanic; ghent; godfrey; golden; good; gothic; government; governor; grand; great; greater; greatest; grievances; ground; hainault; half; hall; hands; hapsburg; head; help; henry; high; historical; history; holland; house; idea; iii; illustration; imperial; important; increase; independence; industrial; industry; influence; inhabitants; institutions; intellectual; intercourse; interests; internal; international; invasion; isabella; italian; italy; jean; john; joseph; juan; justice; king; kingdom; knowledge; known; lamb; language; large; later; latin; law; lay; leaders; league; left; leopold; letters; liberal; liberties; liberty; life; like; limburg; limited; line; literature; little; lived; liége; local; london; long; lord; lotharingia; lotharius; louis; louvain; low; luxemburg; maestricht; main; malines; margaret; maria; market; marriage; mary; masters; material; matter; maximilian; means; measures; mediæval; merchants; meuse; middle; military; minority; modern; monasteries; money; monks; movement; münster; namur; napoleon; nassau; national; nationality; nations; native; natural; near; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; neutrality; new; nobility; nobles; noot; northern; number; obtaining; occasions; occupied; old; open; operations; opinion; opportunity; opposed; orange; order; organized; origin; ostend; outside; pacification; painters; painting; parties; parts; past; pay; peace; peasants; people; period; personal; philip; pictures; point; policy; political; politics; popular; population; position; possessions; possible; power; powerful; prepared; presence; present; preserved; preserving; prestige; previous; prince; principal; principle; privileges; progress; project; prominent; prosperity; protection; provinces; provincial; public; question; race; rapid; raw; reaction; reasons; reform; regard; region; relations; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; renaissance; representatives; republic; resistance; resources; restoration; restored; result; return; revolution; rhine; right; rising; road; robert; roman; rubens; rule; régime; régner; scheldt; school; sea; second; secret; separation; series; seventeenth; share; ships; short; shows; sides; similar; situation; sixteenth; small; social; son; southern; sovereign; spain; spanish; special; spirit; spite; spread; state; strength; striking; strong; struggle; study; style; subjects; success; succession; support; suzerain; sympathy; system; taking; taxes; tendencies; tenth; territorial; territory; theresa; thierry; thirteenth; time; title; tongres; tournai; towns; trade; traders; traditions; transformation; treaties; treaty; tribes; troops; true; twelfth; unable; unification; union; united; unity; university; utrecht; valenciennes; van; victory; vienna; view; walloon; war; wars; way; west; western; william; wise; wool; work; workers; world; worship; writers; years; young; ypres; zeeland
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        item: #8 of 121
          id: 28288
      author: Edwards, George Wharton
       title: Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
        date: None
       words: 36370
      flesch: 68
     summary: From below the eye was carried upward by range upon range of exquisite Gothic detail to the four great open-work, gilded, clock discs, through which one could dimly see the beautiful, open-pointed lancets behind which on great beams hung the carillon bells, row upon row. The stalls of the choir, in two banks or ranges, twenty-seven above, twenty-four below, bore the date of 1598, and the signature of d'Urbain Taillebert, a native sculptor of great merit, who also carved the great _Jube_ of Dixmude (see drawing).
    keywords: air; alost; altar; ancient; antwerp; architecture; archives; army; artistic; artists; ashes; august; authorities; aymon; banks; battle; bayard; beams; bearing; beautiful; beguinage; belfry; belgians; belgium; bell; bergues; better; black; blue; body; book; brick; bruges; brussels; building; burghers; carillon; cathedral; celebrated; center; century; certain; chamber; character; charlemagne; charles; chimes; choir; church; clay; clock; closed; cloth; collection; commines; complete; construction; corner; country; counts; course; courtrai; cover; coxie; curious; custode; dame; dark; date; day; days; death; decorations; destruction; detail; dim; dixmude; dogs; door; douai; drawing; dunes; dusty; dutch; dwelt; dyle; effect; end; england; english; engraver; evil; eyes; face; fact; family; famous; fancied; farmers; father; façade; feet; fields; figures; fine; fire; flanders; flemings; flemish; following; form; france; french; furnes; fête; ghent; gheyns; gild; gold; golden; good; gothic; government; grand; grass; gray; great; great bell; great tower; greatest; green; ground; half; hall; hand; hard; haweis; head; heavy; height; high; historical; history; hollow; holy; horse; hour; houses; huge; hung; hôtel; illustration; immense; importance; inscription; interest; interesting; interior; iron; jacques; jean; jube; kind; king; knights; known; lady; landscape; language; large; later; left; length; leopold; level; library; life; like; lion; little; lives; london; long; looking; louis; louvain; luc; lys; m'sieur; malines; man; manner; margaret; market; martin; mass; master; members; men; merit; metal; michel; mighty; military; model; modern; mold; moment; museum; music; narrow; netherlands; new; nieuport; night; noble; north; notes; notre; number; occasion; old; old church; old tower; old town; open; opposite; order; oudenaarde; outbreak; outside; painter; paintings; passing; past; peasants; people; period; peter; philip; picturesque; pierre; place; pointed; porte; portrait; powerful; prepared; preserved; prince; procession; prosperity; pupil; quaint; red; region; religious; remains; remarkable; renaissance; renown; rich; river; rombauld; roofs; room; rope; rows; rubens; ruins; saint; saying; sea; second; shining; siege; silent; silver; size; sky; small; smelling; soldiers; son; sons; sort; sound; spanish; spire; square; state; station; statues; stone; streets; strength; stronghold; structure; style; success; sweet; tall; task; termonde; thick; tier; time; tournai; tower; town; town hall; trees; troops; true; van; vanished; vast; ville; walls; war; wars; watch; way; white; wide; william; windows; women; wonder; wondrous; wooden; words; work; world; years; young; ypres
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        item: #9 of 121
          id: 28850
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Project Gutenberg Works of John Lothrop Motley A Linked Index for: The Rise of the Dutch Republic; The History of the United Netherlands; The Life and Death of John of Barneveld
        date: None
       words: 362
      flesch: 72
     summary: This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. Then double-click on 28850-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named FILES to any name you wish, such as MOTLEY.
    keywords: computer; directory; files; index
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        item: #10 of 121
          id: 38528
      author: Tremayne, Eleanor E.
       title: The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria
        date: None
       words: 106843
      flesch: 68
     summary: Ung aultre tableau de la passion de NS., fait de Illyminure, a l'entour duquel sont les vii paroles que NS. Très chière et très amée fille, nous vous envoyons par nostre amé et féal escuier, Bourgrave de Bruxelles, le seigneur d'Aremberch, une arbalestre garnye d'un coffin et de trectz à ce servans; laquelle désirons que recevez bénignement dudit seigneur d'Aremberch, et que après, vous faictes refaire ledit coffin qui est couvert de cuyre par dessus, ou lieu dudit cuyre, d'argent doré, et puis le tout faire présenter à nostre frère, le roy d'Angleterre.
    keywords: 10th; 12th; 14th; 15th; 16th; 18th; 1st; 20th; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; 3rd; absence; accomplished; account; acts; adrian; adrian de; advantage; advice; affairs; affection; affectionate; ainsi; alliance; allies; altar; ambassador; amboise; amée; andré de; anne de; annunciation; answer; anxious; april; après; aragon; archbishop; archduchess margaret; archduke; archduke charles; archives; arms; armstrong; army; arrival; articles; assistance; asturias; attack; august; aultre; aunt; aussi; austria; authority; aux; avons; ayant; barcelona; battle; bearing; beautiful; beauty; bed; beloved; best; betrothal; betrothed; bien; birth; bishop; black; body; bold; bologna; bonne; book; bourbon; bourg; bourgogne; boy; brabant; bradford; brandon; bresse; bride; brilliant; bringing; brittany; broken; brother; brou; bruges; brussels; bruxelles; building; burgundy; business; c'est; cabinet; calais; calendar; cambray; cardinal; cardinal de; care; castile; catholic; cause; celebrated; celle; centre; century; ceremony; certain; chambre; chancellor; chapel; chapter; character; charge; charles; charles de; charles viii; chevalier; chief; children; chière; chièvres; choir; chose; christendom; christian; church; city; claude; cloth; coffin; colier de; collection; come; coming; command; common; conduct; confidence; congress; consent; constable; continued; contract; coronation; correspondence; cortes; council; councillors; countries; country; couronne; court; cousin; couvert; cramoisy; croix; cross; crowd; crowns; custom; d'ain; d'angleterre; d'argent; d'autriche; d'espaigne; d'or; d'ung; dame de; danger; dans; daughter; daughter margaret; dauphin; day; days; de beaujeu; de bois; de burgo; de chambre; de croy; de dieu; de drapt; de foix; de france; de gattinare; de gorrevod; de justice; de l'aultre; de la; de madame; de maistre; de marguerite; de mesme; de nostre; de ns; de paris; de portugal; de satin; de savoie; de septembre; de son; de soye; de tolentin; de toutes; dead; dear; dearest; death; december; defence; delay; denmark; departure; deputies; des; description; desire; despatch; dessus; details; determined; deux; devant; device; devoted; diet; dieu; different; difficulty; dignity; dominions; don; donné; dorez; doré; double; doubt; dowry; drapt; dressed; duc de; duchess; duchy; dudit; duke; duquel; duty; early; eldest; eleanor; election; emperor; emperor maximilian; empire; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; english king; entry; envoy; escript; est; estans; estre; et de; et en; et la; et son; et très; et ung; et vous; europe; evening; events; expense; express; eyes; face; fact; faire; fait; faithful; family; farewell; father; favour; favourite; fear; february; femme; feu; fever; field; figures; figuré de; fille; fine; flanders; fleet; flemish; florins; following; fond; foot; force; fort; fortune; france; francis; free; french; french king; friends; friendship; fuensalida; funeral; future; fête; garde; gaston de; general; germany; ghent; gifts; gives; glad; glay; god; gold; golden; good; goodwill; governess; government; governor; grandfather; grandson; grant; great; greater; greatest; grief; gueldres; habillé; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; head; health; heart; heir; help; high; highness; history; hochstrate; holy; home; honour; hope; hours; house; household; humble; hume; hungary; hunting; husband; idea; illness; illustration; imperial; important; infant; influence; informed; instructions; intended; intention; interesting; interests; interview; inventory; isabella; italian; italy; jacques de; january; jean; jean de; jewels; joanna; john; john de; jour de; journey; joy; juan; julius; july; june; katharine; kind; king; king ferdinand; king francis; king henry; king louis; king philip; kingdom; knights; knowledge; known; l'empereur; l'entour de; l'inventaire; ladies; lady; lady margaret; large; late king; later; latin; law; league; leave; ledit; left; legate; length; letter; lettres; liberty; library; life; like; little; livre; london; long; longer; lord; loss; lost; louis; louis de; love; luther; luy; m. de; mabuse; madame; madame margaret; madrid; magnificent; main; mains de; mais; maistre; majesty; making; malines; manner; manuel; marble; march; margaret; marnix; marquis; marriage; married; marshal; martin; mary; mary de; mass; master; matters; maximilian; means; meeting; memory; men; mercurin de; milan; mind; mission; mistress; moment; monastery; monde; money; monk; monseigneur; monsieur; months; monument; mort; mother; mourning; moy; mère; naples; nassau; natural; nature; near; necessary; negotiations; nephew; netherlands; new king; news; nicolas de; niece; nobles; noir; nom; notre; nous; november; number; o'clock; object; occasion; october; offer; old; open; opinion; order; orleans; painct; painctures; painting; palace; palais de; papal; papers; par; parents; paris; passage; pavia; pay; peace; pendant; people; perfect; person; personnaige; peter; petit; philibert; philip; philippe; photograph; picture; pièces; plans; pleased; pleasure; point; policy; political; poor; pope; portraits; portugal; position; possession; possible; pour; pourtraiture; power; powerful; praet; prayers; premier; prepared; presence; present; president; prince; prince charles; princess; princess margaret; principal; prisoner; private; procession; progress; promises; provinces; puebla; purpose; père; qu'il; quatre; que; queen; qui; ready; reason; red; reference; regard; regency; regent; regret; religious; remedy; rené; republic; request; respect; result; return; revenues; rich; right; robbe; robert de; romans; rome; rouge; round; roy; roy de; royal; rule; safe; safety; said; saint; saint margaret; sans; satisfaction; sauch; savoy; saying; sea; second; secret; secretary; seeing; september; servant; service; set; sforza; short; sides; siege; sign; silver; single; sister; sister margaret; small; soit; solemn; son; sont; sorrow; sovereigns; spain; spaniards; spanish; speak; speech; splendid; state; stone; strong; struggle; subjects; success; suffolk; suite; sum; summer; sunday; support; sur; swiss; tableau de; tableaux; tant; tappisserie de; tenant; terms; teste; thanks; things; thoison; thought; throne; time; time margaret; title; toille; tomb; tournay; tout; town; treasurer; treaties; treaty; trois; troops; trouble; truce; truth; très; tudor; une; ung; ung aultre; ung petit; ung tableau; unhappy; utmost; utrecht; van; velours; velvet; venetians; venice; verd; viceroy; victory; vienna; viii; ville de; virgin; visit; vol; volume; vostre; vous; voyage; wales; war; warlike; way; wedding; weeks; welcome; white; widow; wife; willing; windsor; wise; wishes; wolsey; words; work; world; writing; xii; year; york; young; youngest; youth
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        item: #11 of 121
          id: 41830
      author: Vose, Edward Neville
       title: The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces
        date: None
       words: 113278
      flesch: 65
     summary: At Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and many other famous Flemish cities the Germans appear to have made every effort to avoid wanton destruction and preserve the most notable historic edifices. Arnulph the Great, strengthens Flemish cities, 35; founds St. Donatian's at Bruges, 35. Arras, Treaty of 1191, 189; Treaty of 1435, 222-223; tapestry workers organised, 230; tapestries of, 278-279; starting point otapestry weaving, 385. Artois, Count of, besieges Furnes, 90; leads French at Battle of the Spurs, 157; death, 159; 160; County of Artois ceded to France, 189. Audenaerde, tapestries, 5; guildsmen from at Battle of the Spurs, 157; 202; siege of by Philip Van Artevelde, 208; besieged bPhilip the Bold, 218; besieged by men from Ghent, 225; Louis XI drives tapestry weavers from Arras to, 278; tapestry ateliers specialise in pastoral scenes, 279; country around, described, 367-368; monument to volunteers who died in Mexico, 369-370; description of Hotel de Ville, 370-376; birthplace of Margaret of Parma, 377; communal museum in Hotel de Ville, 381-382; Cloth Hall, 382-383; church of Ste. Walburge, 383-385; tapestry weaving at, 385-387; church of Notre Dame de Pamela, 387-389; Château de Bourgogne, 390; many religious institutions of, 390; sieges and battles of the past, 391-392; 413. Austria, War of the Austrian Succession, 250; Austrian troops at Fontenoy, 251; arms of, at Audenaerde, 373; Flanders during Warof the Austrian Succession, 458; under Austrian Empire, 458-459. Auxerre, marriage of Baldwin I and Judith in 863, 26.
    keywords: abbey; account; adjoining; admirable; adoration; age; ages; aid; albert; alsace; altar; alva; american; ancient; antiquity; antwerp; archdukes; archery; arches; architecture; archives; arms; army; arras; art; artevelde; artisans; artist; artistic; arts; attack; audenaerde; august; augustus; austria; authorities; authority; aux; away; baldwin; bas; battle; bavon; beach; beautiful; beauty; beginning; belfry; belgian; belgium; bell; best; better; big; birds; birth; bishop; black; blood; body; bold; book; bourg; bouts; brabant; brave; brick; bridge; brief; brilliant; broad; brother; bruges; brussels; buildings; burghers; burgundian; burgundy; business; butchers; béguinage; cambrai; canal; capital; career; carved; carvings; case; castle; cathedral; celebrated; central; centre; centuries; century; certain; chamber; channel; chapel; chapter; charge; charles; charming; chief; childeric; children; chimes; choir; christopher; church; churches; château; citadel; cities; citizens; city; clad; class; clear; close; cloth; collection; coloured; commerce; commercial; common; communes; company; complete; conflict; considerable; constantinople; contest; continued; corner; cost; council; count; countess; countries; country; course; courtrai; courtyard; critics; cross; crowd; curious; dame; dark; dates; daughter; david; day; days; dead; death; decline; deep; defence; defenders; des; description; deserted; destruction; devoted; dierick; different; dinner; direction; distance; dixmude; dominions; donatian; doors; doorway; doubt; dozen; duke; dunes; dutch; dyck; dyle; earlier; earliest; early; early flemish; east; edifice; edward; effect; eighteenth; emperor; end; england; english; entire; entrance; establishment; europe; european; evening; events; example; excellent; existence; eyck; eye; face; fact; fair; fall; fame; family; famous; far; fast; father; façade; feet; ferdinand; feudal; fields; fifteenth; fifth; figures; fine; finest; fire; fireplace; flanders; fleece; flemings; flemish; flowers; following; fontenoy; forces; foreign; foremost; forgotten; form; fortress; fortunate; fought; foundation; fourteenth; france; francis; free; french; friend; frontier; furnes; fury; future; gallery; garden; general; george; german; ghent; golden; good; gothic; government; grande; great; great church; great flemish; great war; greater; greatest; grey; ground; group; guild; guildsmen; hainaut; half; hall; hands; hard; having; head; heart; heavy; height; high; higher; historical; history; holland; holy; home; honour; hope; hospital; host; hotel; hour; houses; hubert; huge; human; hung; husband; iconoclasts; iii; illustration; important; imposing; industry; inhabitants; interested; interesting; interior; iron; italian; italy; jacques; jean; jeanne; john; judgment; july; june; justice; kind; king; kingdom; kitchen; knights; known; ladies; lady; large; largest; later; law; leader; learned; left; legend; liberal; liberty; life; like; likely; little; little city; lives; local; london; long; longer; look; lord; lost; louis; louvain; love; luke; madame; maele; magistrates; maison; making; malines; man; manner; marché; margaret; marie; market; marriage; married; martin; marvellous; mass; master; masterpiece; matsys; maximilian; means; mediæval; members; men; merchants; merit; middle; miles; military; minor; modern; moment; monarch; money; months; monument; moretus; morning; mrs; murder; museum; music; names; napoleon; narrow; nation; national; native; nave; near; netherlands; new; nicholas; nieuport; noble; north; northern; notable; notre; number; numerous; occasion; occupied; office; official; old; old city; old flemish; oldest; open; opposite; order; organised; original; ostende; outside; page; painter; painting; palais; panels; paris; parma; party; past; pay; peasants; people; perfect; period; peter; philip; pictures; picturesque; pieces; place; plantin; pleasant; poet; point; policy; poor; popular; population; portion; portrait; position; possible; powerful; presence; present; preserved; pretty; prince; princess; principal; prison; private; privileges; procession; products; professor; prosperity; prosperous; protection; proud; provinces; public; purpose; quaint; quarter; queen; railway; ranks; rare; reason; record; red; regent; region; reign; relic; reliefs; religious; remains; remarkable; renowned; residence; resistance; restoration; result; return; revolt; revolution; rich; right; ring; rival; river; robert; rombaut; roof; room; royal; rubens; ruin; rule; runs; saint; sauveur; save; savoy; scene; scheldt; school; score; sculptor; sea; second; seeing; series; service; set; seventeenth; ships; short; shows; shrine; sides; siege; silent; similar; singing; single; sir; sixteenth; size; skill; sky; small; smaller; soldiers; son; south; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; speak; spell; spire; splendid; splendour; spot; spurs; square; standing; stands; state; station; statues; stone; streets; strong; structure; study; style; subjects; summer; sun; superb; superior; swiss; tapestries; tapestry; tell; terms; terrible; things; thirteenth; thought; thousands; throng; time; tiny; title; tomb; tourist; tournai; tower; town; trade; train; transept; treasures; treaty; trip; troops; trouble; true; twelfth; unable; united; upper; value; van; van der; vast; veritable; victory; vieux; view; viii; village; ville; virgin; visit; visitor; walburge; walls; war; wars; way; wealth; weavers; weeks; west; weyden; white; wide; wife; wild; william; windows; wise; women; wonder; wonderful; wood; wooden; work; workers; world; worthy; years; york; young; ypres; yser; zwyn
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        item: #12 of 121
          id: 4242
      author: Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest)
       title: Belgium
        date: None
       words: 12388
      flesch: 45
     summary: One would gladly spend more time in this Antwerp gallery, which exceeds, I think, in general magnificence the collections at Brussels and Amsterdam; and gladly would one visit the great fifteenth and sixteenth century churches of St. Jacques, St. Andre, and St. Paul, which not merely form together architecturally an important group of a strongly localized character, but are also, like the cathedral, veritable museums or picture galleries. The cathedral has the usual solitary west tower, as at Ely, that we have now come to associate--at Ypres and Bruges--with typical Belgian churches.
    keywords: ancient; antiquity; antwerp; architecture; ardennes; aspect; beautiful; belgian; belgium; best; better; big; black; blood; brass; brick; bruges; brussels; building; business; cathedral; centre; century; certain; chapel; character; characteristic; charles; charm; charming; church; churches; cities; city; collection; country; course; crucifixion; curious; dame; day; death; delightful; dinant; dixmude; doubt; early; england; europe; example; eyck; famous; feature; feet; fifteenth; figures; fine; flanders; flemish; france; furnes; gallery; general; ghent; good; grande; great; half; hall; height; high; holland; hope; hotel; house; huge; important; interest; interior; kind; later; left; liege; life; like; limestone; little; long; louvain; magnificent; malines; marble; market; mediaeval; middle; miles; modern; moment; moretus; namur; new; nieuport; noble; notre; old; people; picture; picturesque; place; plantin; pleasant; point; present; railway; remarkable; rood; rubens; ruin; sake; scenery; seventeenth; short; single; sixteenth; small; splendid; splendour; square; streets; thirteenth; time; tower; town; valley; van; vast; venice; ville; visit; way; wealth; west; white; wood; work; world; worth; years; ypres
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        item: #13 of 121
          id: 43086
      author: Louise, Princess of Belgium
       title: My Own Affairs
        date: None
       words: 66370
      flesch: 73
     summary: Elizabeth, Empress of Austria) Ernest, Duke, of Saxe-Coburg, 64, 116 Princess Louise and, 160, 161 Etienne, Archduke, 51 Eucharistic Congress (1914), Emperor Francis Joseph at, 115 Faure, M., duets with Queen Henriette, 20 Ferdinand of Bulgaria, adopts title of Tsar, 123 as Emperor of Byzantium, 121 character of, 71, 92, 117 _et seq._ downfall of, 130 enmity of, to Princess Louise, 130 excommunication of, 125 marriage of, 124 mother's influence on, 117 Princess Louise and, 118-120, 126-130 sons of, baptized into Greek Church, 124 Flandre, Comte and Comtesse of, 47 visit Princess Louise at Lindenhof, 191 France, politics and religion in, 97 Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 1 and Princess Louise's scandals, 89, 90, 182 at Eucharistic Congress (1914), 115 Berlin and, 137 character of, 84, 134 death of Archduke Rudolph and, 86 greatness of, 55 justice of, 85 Madame Schratt and, 85, 86, 115 madness of, regarding war, 231 personal appearance of, 134, 136 refuses help to Princess Louise, 92 Frederick, Crown Prince, 57 at Princess Louise's wedding, 59 Frederick, Emperor, character of, 133, 143 Fugger, Countess, fidelity of, 179, 183, 190 Gerard, Queen Henriette's _maître-d' hôtel_, 24 German Emperor (_see_ William II) Germany, evil influence of Prussia on, 133, 152, 158 legendary philosophy of, 157 treatment of ex-kings by, 160 William II responsible for crimes of, 133, 140 Goethe, as Princess Louise's favourite author, 15 Gotha, Princess Louise at, 64 Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, character of, 146 coerces Princess Louise at Munich, 233 Count Mattachich and, 149 fortune of Leopold II and, 43 Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, marriage of, with Princess Dora, 80, 146, 147 warns Princess Louise, 181 Heine, Heinrich, Empress Elizabeth and, 94 Princess Louise's estimate of, 93 Helpa, Count (_see_ Auguste of Saxe-Coburg) Henriette, Queen of Belgium, 4 and death of Prince Leopold, 25, 28 as horsewoman, 21, 44 beauty and character of, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 death of, at Spa, 40 friendship of, with Duc d'Aumale, 46 influence at Vienna of, 57 influence on Princess Louise, 22, 23, 37, 39 King Leopold and, 24, 25, 28, 31, 34 letters of, to Princess Louise at Lindenhof, 191 marriage of, 17 parents of, 17 Prince Louise's marriage and, 54, 57, 246 Hesse, Grand Duke of, marriage of, with Princess Melita, 163 Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Princess Louise at, 82 Hohenberg, Duchess of (_see_ Chotek, Countess) Hoyoz, Count, at Meyerling, 111 Hungary, Coburg estates in, 58 John, Archduke (John Orth), disappearance of, 96 Joinville, Prince de, 45 Joseph, Archduke, at Princess Louise's wedding, 59 at Sadowa, 17 palace of, at Buda, 74 Keglevich, Count, and Count Mattachich, 181, 183 Keglevich, Countess, Princess Louise and Count Mattachich take refuge with, 180 Laeken, Château of, childhood of Princess Louise at, 49, 52, 63 commemoration oak trees at, 36 inconveniences of, 22 King Leopold and gardens at, 30, 31 marriage of Princess Louise at, 60 Queen Henrietta's feat of horsemanship at, 21 Royal children's gardens at, 36 Lantsheere, M. de, address to the Senate by, 229, 230 _Le Journal_, Princess Louise and, 195 Leopold I, death of, 17, 18, 29 influence of, 116 Leopold II of Belgium, 1, 2 accession of, 18 administration of Empress Charlotte's fortune by, 32 attitude towards daughters of, 34, 35 Belgian Government on, 216, 217 Belgium and fortune of, 32, 33, 211 _et seq._ character of, 25, 27 _et seq._ colonial policy of, 28, 31 death of, 216 forethought against Germany of, 134 fortune of, 32, 33, 79, 147, 150, 172, 212, 234 gardens at Laeken and, 30, 31 influence of death of son on, 34 lawsuit concerning fortune of, 211 _et seq._ love of flowers of, 30 marriage of, 17 marriage of Princess Louise and, 100, 246 marriage of Princess Stéphanie and, 100 on blindness of France, 97 on William II, 134 personality of, 28, 29 Princess Louise at funeral of, 40, 147, 150 sarcasm of, 10 will of, 221, 222 Leopold, Prince, of Belgium, birth of, 21 birthday oak at Laeken of, 37 character of, 52 childhood of, 51, 52 death of, 21, 25, 33, 51 Leopold, son of Princess Louise, death of, 80 relations of, with mother, 79 Lindenhof, Princess Louise in asylum of, 186 _et seq._ Lobor, Château of, Princess Louise and Count Mattachich take refuge at, 180 Louis II of Bavaria, character of 154, 156 Louis III of Bavaria, character of, 155, 156 Louis Philippe, King, 46, 47 Louis Victor, Archduke, as instigator of persecution of Princess Louise, 87, 88, 89, 90 Louise, Princess, alleged madness of, 39, 150, 151, 181, 184, 186, 189 appeal to Munich courts by, 235 Archduke Louis Victor and, 87 Archduke Rudolph and, 103-105, 108, 109, 110 arrest of, 183 as eldest daughter, 22 as horsewoman, 44 as mother, 78, 247 as Princess of Coburg, 42, 65 at Agram, 181, 182 at Biarritz, 50, 51 at Bologna, 74, 77 at Budapest, 64, 74 at Cannes, 74, 77 at Chantilly, 46 at Château d'Eu, 46 at Coburg Palace, 12, 63 _et seq._ at father's funeral, 40 at Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations, 169 at Regensburg, 158, 159 attitude of King and Queen towards, 29, 30, 173 Belgium's treatment of, 2 betrothal of, 54 birth of daughter to, 80 birthday oak at Laeken of, 37 Bolshevists and, 1, 2, 74, 243 childhood of, 22, 30, 49 coercion of, by Duke Gunther, 233, 234 Comtesse de Flandre's visit to, at Lindenhof, 191 conjugal life of, 38 Count Mattachich, at Nice with, 148, 149, 176, 177; attempts release of, 193 _et seq._ Court of Vienna and, 8 daughter's desertion of, 150 declared sane by French doctors, 209 departure for Austria of, 63 differences with husband of, 68, 76, 89, 90, 91 divorce of, 41 Dr. Sudekum's assistance to, 200 Emperor William and, 133, 138 Empress Augusta and, 143, 144 enemies of, 4, 5 enmity of Ferdinand of Bulgaria to, 130 escape of, from Bad-Elster, 200 _et seq._ exile of, 36 extravagance of, 171, 172 favourite authors of, 15 feelings for Belgium of, 2 Ferdinand of Bulgaria and, 118-120, 126-130 flight from Silesia of, 238-240 flight with Count Mattachich of, 179 Heinrich Heine and, 94 hereditary qualities of, 9, 12, 13, 14 ideals of, 11 in asylum at Lindenhof and Purkesdorf, 186 _et seq._ incident on wedding night of, 60, 61 infancy of, 18, 21 King Leopold and marriage of, 100 King Leopold's fortune and, 32 lawsuit of, concerning the King's fortune, 211 _et seq._ _ Eleven years have passed since the death of the 'Great King.'
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        item: #14 of 121
          id: 44314
      author: Gilliat-Smith, Ernest
       title: The Story of Brussels
        date: None
       words: 110066
      flesch: 59
     summary: The Story of_ Brussels _by Ernest Gilliat-Smith_ _ What wonder then, when this state of things had been going on for the best part of a week, that a serving-maid, who perceived a lighted candle in the window of a certain foreign knight at an hour when all honest men should be a-bed, clean lost her wits, and ran up screaming to call her master; or that he, good man, when he had plucked up his courage to peer in at the casement, and with his own eyes had seen the knight arming, ran off at the top of his speed to tell the magistrates that a plot was on foot to murder all the burghers; or that they, no less scared than he, put a double guard at the city gates; or that a great host of craftsmen soon appeared in the Grand' Place armed and angry: and perhaps too they had reason.
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reform; regent; relics; religious; remains; remarkable; rest; result; return; revolution; rhine; rich; right; road; roger; rombold; round; rule; ruysbroek; régnier; saint; saint gudila; saint peter; sake; save; scene; scheme; school; sculpture; second; sentence; seq; services; set; share; short; sign; sister; situation; small; social; soil; son; sons; soul; south; sovereign; spain; spiritual; spite; splendour; spread; standing; stone; story; strange; strangely; stream; streets; strong; structure; style; subjects; success; sum; support; sweder; t'serclaes; terms; tervueren; thanks; things; thomas; thought; throne; time; title; tomb; tournai; tower; town; town hall; trade; transept; treaty; triptych; triumph; trouble; true; unable; unfinished; unknown; upper; van; vander; vast; vengeance; victory; view; vilvorde; visit; voice; waghemakere; walls; war; way; wealth; weavers; weeks; west; weyden; whereat; white; widow; wife; william; winceslaus; windows; wine; wise; witness; women; wood; words; work; working; world; worse; wrought; years; young; younger; zeal; zype; | |
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        item: #15 of 121
          id: 46248
      author: Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
       title: Belgium
        date: None
       words: 83580
      flesch: 67
     summary: By GERTRUDE DEMAIN HAMMOND, R.I. The Beautiful Birthday Book 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR DECORATIVE BORDERS BY A. A. TURBAYNE Painted by A. FORESTIER Text by G. W. T. OMOND Brabant & East Flanders 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR By A. CROXTON SMITH Painted by G. VERNON STOKES British Dogs at Work 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR By W. TRIGNMOUTH SHORE Painted by W. BISCOMBE GARDNER Canterbury 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR By Mrs. WILLINGHAM RAWNSLEY Country Sketches for City Dwellers 16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I. Described by ROSALINE MASSON Edinburgh 21 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Painted and Described by DION CLAYTON CALTHROP English Costume In Four Sections, each containing 18 to 20 full-page Illustrations in Colour, and many Illustrations in the text: Section I. Early English II. 'Charles,' we learn from a local history, 'sut se rendre populaire en prenant part aux amusements de la population et en se pliant, sans effort comme sans affectation, aux usages du pays.'
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        item: #16 of 121
          id: 46552
      author: Gilliat-Smith, Ernest
       title: The Story of Bruges
        date: None
       words: 115115
      flesch: 66
     summary: The municipal rolls go back to the year 1280, and included amongst them are the annual accounts of the city from 1281 to 1789, almost complete; those of the Collegiate Church of _Notre Dame_ to early in the eleven hundreds; and there are, too, the rolls of _St. Sauveur_, of the old Cathedral of St. Donatian, of the great Abbey of Dunes, and of many other time-honoured corporations; whilst the Municipal Library and the Library of the Diocesan Seminary contain together, no less than seven hundred and thirty-four manuscripts, not a few of which were written in the city itself or in its immediate neighbourhood. For some time past she had been halting between two opinions, but the success which the men of Bruges had obtained over the marauding knights, at the gates of their city, had emboldened her to make a definite engagement to fight shoulder to shoulder with Bruges until peace were established in Flanders, and even to despatch to her assistance a small band of fighting men; but presently one of her leaders, Rasse Onredene, a man who passed for an ardent patriot, but was in reality in Philippe's pay, pointed out that it would be more to the advantage of Ghent to act the part of peacemaker, with a view to arranging honourable terms than to openly side with either of the belligerents; and when a deputation of Bruges men went out, as they thought, to confer with their allies at Eecloo, they found them posing as neutral mediators.
    keywords: abbey; abbot; able; accomplished; account; adoration; alliance; alsace; altar; amand; ancient; anent; angels; answer; april; architecture; armed; arms; army; arnulph; arras; arrest; art; artevelde; artist; artois; assistance; attempt; august; authority; background; bade; baldwin; band; banks; baptist; barons; basil; battle; bearing; beautiful; beauty; beginning; belfry; beloved; bertulph; best; better; birth; bishop; black; bladelin; blood; blow; body; bourchard; bourg; brabant; break; brick; bridge; brilliant; broken; brother; bruges; bruges men; brussels; building; burghers; burgomaster; burgundy; camp; canal; canon; capital; case; cassel; castle; cathedral; central; century; certain; chamber; chapel; chapter; character; charles; chief; children; chimney; choir; christ; church; churches; châtelain; châtillon; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; claim; clergy; cleves; cliton; cloister; close; colour; colouring; coming; commerce; commercial; common; communes; complete; comrades; conditions; conduct; conflict; coninck; conquest; consent; considerable; constantinople; corner; cost; council; counsel; count; countess; country; courage; course; courtrai; crime; cross; crown; cruel; cry; cut; d'avesnes; dadizeele; dame; dampierre; date; daughter; david; day; days; dead; dean; death; defeat; degree; denmark; des; design; destruction; determined; dierick; donatian; doors; doubt; doubtless; duke; early; east; echevins; edward; effect; efforts; emperor; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; erembalds; escape; estates; europe; evening; events; evil; example; execution; exile; eyck; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; faithful; fall; family; famous; far; fate; father; favour; façade; fear; fearless; february; feet; ferdinand; feudal; figures; fine; fire; flanders; flemings; flemish; flight; foes; folk; following; force; foreign; forest; form; forthwith; fortress; fortune; founder; france; free; freedom; french; french king; fresh; friends; frisian; furnes; fury; gallery; garden; gates; general; gentle; george; gerard; german; ghent; ghenters; glass; glorious; glory; god; gold; golden; good; gothic; government; grand; grave; great; greater; greatest; green; gruthuise; guild; guildsmen; guy; hacket; hainault; half; hall; hand; handed; handful; handiwork; hans; hard; hated; head; heart; heavy; help; henry; high; highest; history; hitherto; hold; holland; holy; homage; home; honour; hope; hornes; hospital; host; hour; house; household; hubert; huge; hundreds; husband; hôtel; iii; illustration; imperial; influence; inhabitants; interesting; interests; invasion; iron; issue; jacques; jean; jeanne; jerusalem; john; john van; journey; judges; judith; july; june; justice; karls; kervyn; kind; king; knights; known; l'asseuré; lady; lanchals; large; later; law; lay; leaders; left; length; letters; liberties; liberty; library; life; like; likely; line; lips; little; livres; long; lord; lost; louis; love; löo; maele; magistrates; magnificent; making; man; manner; mansion; march; marguerite; marie; market; marriage; married; marvellous; mass; master; maximilian; means; measure; members; memlinc; memory; men; merchants; mercy; mere; middelburg; middle; midst; mightiest; mighty; mind; misery; mob; modern; moment; money; monks; months; morning; mother; municipal; murder; music; namur; narrow; native; nature; nave; near; negotiations; neighbourhood; netherlands; nevers; new; news; noble; northern; notre; number; nuns; oak; oath; object; occasion; october; office; officers; old; old man; omer; open; opening; opinion; opportunity; opposite; order; original; orléans; outcome; painter; painting; palaces; palais; pale; panel; panic; paris; party; past; patron; pay; people; perfect; period; person; personal; peter; philip; philippe; picture; picturesque; piece; pity; place; pleasing; plot; policy; pont; poor; pope; popular; porte; portion; portrait; position; possession; precious; presence; present; prince; prison; private; privileges; probability; promises; property; proud; provost; public; quai; quaint; queen; question; race; ramparts; ready; reality; realm; reason; rebellion; redoubtable; refuge; regent; reign; release; relic; religious; remains; remarkable; request; residence; respect; rest; restoration; return; revolution; rich; richilde; right; risk; rival; river; robert; roger; rome; roof; round; roya; rude; sacred; said; saint; sake; sauveur; save; saxon; scene; sea; second; secret; service; set; sheriffs; short; shrine; sides; siege; sister; slain; sluys; small; solemn; son; sons; soul; sovereign; speech; spirit; spite; splendour; spot; spring; standing; state; stately; staunch; stone; story; strange; straten; stream; street; strength; strong; style; subjects; submission; sum; sumptuous; support; taxes; terms; terrible; thanks; things; thirteenth; thought; throne; time; tournai; tower; town; trade; tradition; treasure; treaty; triptych; triumph; true; truth; united; upper; vain; van; vassals; vast; vengeance; victim; victory; view; ville; violence; visit; voice; walbert; walls; walter; war; way; weale; wealth; weyden; white; widow; wife; wild; william; windows; wise; witness; women; wood; word; work; worthy; wrought; years; young; youth; ypres; | |
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        item: #17 of 121
          id: 4801
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 01: Introduction I
        date: None
       words: 11372
      flesch: 62
     summary: Legations for peace from many German races to Rome were the consequence of these great achievements. A country disinherited by nature of its rights A pleasantry called voluntary contributions or benevolences Annual harvest of iniquity by which his revenue was increased Batavian legion was the imperial body guard Beating the Netherlanders into Christianity Bishop is a consecrated pirate Brethren, parents, and children, having wives in common For women to lament, for men to remember Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies Great science of political equilibrium Holland, England, and America, are all links of one chain Long succession of so many illustrious obscure Others go to battle, says the historian, these go to war Revocable benefices or feuds Taxation upon sin The Gaul was singularly unchaste
    keywords: ages; america; ancient; anglo; archives; arms; batavian; battle; belgic; bishop; blood; broken; caesar; cause; celtic; centuries; century; characteristics; charlemagne; charles; chief; christianity; civilis; close; commonwealth; conqueror; country; counts; course; crown; days; death; dominion; dutch; earth; elements; empire; england; epoch; europe; existence; extensive; family; forests; form; france; franks; free; friesland; frisians; gallic; gaul; general; genius; german; great; hague; hand; hereditary; hero; historical; history; holland; human; imperial; important; inhabitants; interest; island; large; later; laws; left; liberty; life; little; long; longer; mass; men; military; moment; motley; nation; nature; nervii; netherlands; new; noble; north; obscure; ocean; old; peace; people; period; personal; political; popular; population; portion; power; powerful; progress; provinces; race; realm; regions; religion; republic; revenue; rhine; rise; rivers; roman; rome; royal; saxon; sea; service; silent; simple; single; sixteenth; slaves; soil; soldier; sovereignty; states; struggle; system; territory; time; tribes; united; utrecht; valor; van; vast; vitellius; war; william; work; world; years
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        item: #18 of 121
          id: 4802
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
        date: None
       words: 23488
      flesch: 61
     summary: The Huggers, Velsens, Ostetts, of Germany, the Gualterotti and Bonvisi of Italy, and many other great mercantile houses were there established. It was the model upon which many other communities, cradles of great cities, in Holland and Zeland, were afterwards created.
    keywords: absolution; age; ages; alive; ancient; antwerp; arbitrary; authority; beginning; better; blood; bodies; body; bold; brabant; branches; brief; brilliant; bruges; brussels; burghers; burgundy; career; cause; celebrated; centuries; century; character; charlemagne; charles; charters; chief; children; christendom; church; cities; citizens; city; civil; class; clergy; clerical; commerce; common; condition; congress; consent; council; country; course; court; crown; daily; day; days; death; deputies; despotism; divine; duchess; duke; early; earth; east; ecclesiastical; edicts; emperor; empire; enormous; epoch; erasmus; estates; europe; existence; fact; fair; family; father; feudal; fierce; fine; flanders; flemings; force; fourth; france; freedom; freemen; friesland; frisian; functions; future; general; generation; gentle; germany; ghent; god; gold; golden; good; government; great; guilds; half; hand; head; heretics; high; history; hold; holland; honor; hot; house; human; humanity; imperial; important; industry; influence; institutions; iron; jacqueline; john; justice; king; knights; lady; large; later; law; laws; leading; liberty; life; like; little; long; longer; lord; louvain; love; luther; magistrates; manufactures; marriage; mary; master; matters; maximilian; mechlin; members; moment; money; monks; municipal; nation; national; natural; nature; netherlands; new; nobles; number; numerous; obscure; ocean; order; papal; pardon; party; people; period; perpetual; person; philip; place; political; pope; popular; population; power; powerful; practical; prelates; priests; princes; principle; private; privileges; progress; property; provinces; provincial; reformation; regent; religious; republic; right; said; sanguinary; schepens; sea; second; self; senate; servitude; similar; single; slaves; society; son; sovereign; spain; spirit; step; streets; strength; struggle; supreme; sword; system; territory; thirteenth; thought; time; town; trade; vast; violence; war; wealth; weavers; william; work; world; years; zeland
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        item: #19 of 121
          id: 4803
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 03: 1555
        date: None
       words: 11402
      flesch: 60
     summary: The Archduke Maximilian the Duke of Savoy, and other great personages came afterwards, accompanied by a glittering throng of warriors, councillors, governors, and Knights of the Fleece. For virtues such as these, his grave crimes against God and man, against religion and chartered and solemnly-sworn rights have been palliated, as if oppression became more tolerable because the oppressor was an accomplished linguist and a good marksman.
    keywords: abdication; address; administration; affairs; affection; age; ancient; arms; audience; beard; benches; better; body; brabant; brussels; burgundian; caesar; career; catholic; celebrated; ceremony; character; charles; church; city; councillor; course; crowns; daily; dark; day; death; despot; distinguished; duty; egmont; emperor; empire; end; extensive; eyes; face; famous; father; feet; ferdinand; field; fleece; flemish; france; francis; german; good; grave; great; greater; hair; hall; hand; head; health; human; hungary; imperial; inquisition; institutions; interests; john; king; knights; known; language; left; life; little; long; longer; love; lower; magnificent; majesty; man; manner; matter; men; millions; netherlands; number; obedience; occasion; old; orange; order; palace; peace; personal; philip; platform; political; pope; portion; presence; present; profound; protestant; provinces; queen; reign; religion; religious; retirement; scene; second; shoulders; single; small; soldier; son; spacious; spain; stage; states; subjects; successor; task; time; true; vast; walls; work; world; worthy; years
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        item: #20 of 121
          id: 4804
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 04: 1555-59
        date: None
       words: 29340
      flesch: 61
     summary: Although at certain times, even this master-feeling could yield to the pressure of a predominant self-interest-thus showing that even in Philip bigotry was not absolute--yet he appeared on the whole the embodiment of Spanish chivalry and Spanish religious enthusiasm, in its late and corrupted form. Philip meantime had left England, and with more bustle and activity than was usual with him, had given directions for organizing at once a considerable army.
    keywords: account; admiral; advanced; advantage; affairs; age; alva; ambition; ancient; antwerp; army; arras; artillery; assault; attack; august; authority; battle; best; bishop; blood; body; brilliant; brother; brussels; burning; calais; campaign; caraffa; cardinal; catholic; cause; cavalry; celebrated; character; charles; church; city; close; coligny; command; condition; constable; council; count; country; courage; course; crown; daily; day; days; death; decided; departure; desirous; determined; distinguished; dominions; don; duchess; duke; early; effect; egmont; emperor; enemy; england; english; enterprise; escape; estates; europe; face; faith; family; fate; father; favor; favorite; feet; field; fire; flanders; flemish; following; foot; force; foreign; france; french; frontier; future; garrison; general; german; glory; god; gomez; good; government; governor; gravelines; great; ground; guise; half; hand; head; heart; henry; heresy; heretics; high; history; holy; hope; horse; hostilities; immediate; imperial; important; infantry; influence; inquisition; interests; italian; italy; joy; july; king; kingdom; language; large; left; letter; life; likely; little; long; lorraine; majesty; man; marriage; marshal; mary; master; mean; memorable; men; military; millions; moment; monarch; montmorency; nation; national; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; nevers; new; night; object; occasion; officers; opinion; orange; order; paris; parties; party; path; paul; peace; people; person; philip; picardy; point; pontiff; pope; position; possible; power; presence; present; prince; prisoners; provinces; public; purpose; queen; quentin; regard; regent; religious; request; respect; result; retreat; return; royal; ruy; saint; savoy; second; secret; short; siege; single; sister; soldier; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; streets; subject; sudden; sword; thermes; thought; time; town; treaty; triumph; troops; truce; tudor; united; vaucelles; victory; war; way; weak; women; work; world; years
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        item: #21 of 121
          id: 4805
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 05: 1559-60
        date: None
       words: 13571
      flesch: 58
     summary: Among the mothers of great men, Juliana of Stolberg deserves a foremost place, and it is no slight eulogy that she was worthy to have been the mother of William of Orange and of Lewis, Adolphus, Henry, and John of Nassau. At the age of eleven years, William having thus unexpectedly succeeded to such great possessions, was sent from his father's roof to be educated in Brussels.
    keywords: abbey; age; alva; aristocracy; arras; bishop; blood; brother; brussels; catholic; cause; century; certain; character; charles; chief; children; christ; church; civil; constant; continued; contrary; council; country; court; crown; day; death; departure; distinguished; duchess; duke; early; edict; egmont; eldest; emperor; execution; extravagance; family; famous; father; florins; france; french; general; gentlemen; germany; god; good; granvelle; great; greatest; half; hand; henry; heresy; heretics; high; historical; history; holy; house; husband; imperial; important; influence; john; judges; king; language; later; law; letters; liberty; life; likely; little; long; majesty; man; manner; margaret; marriage; master; measures; men; military; monarch; mother; nassau; natural; necessary; netherlands; new; nobles; number; offices; open; opinion; orange; ottavio; peace; people; period; person; philip; pope; power; powerful; present; president; prince; property; provinces; reality; reformation; regent; religion; religious; remarkable; republic; revolt; rich; right; rome; royal; saint; secret; service; sovereignty; spanish; splendid; state; sympathy; time; treaty; troops; wealth; wife; william; world; years; young; youth
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        item: #22 of 121
          id: 4806
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 06: 1560-61
        date: None
       words: 15967
      flesch: 58
     summary: THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, D.C.L., LL.D. 1855 1560-1561 [CHAPTER II.] Agitation in the Netherlands--The ancient charters resorted to as barriers against the measures of government--Joyous entrance of Brabant--Constitution of Holland--Growing unpopularity of Antony Perrenot, Archbishop of Mechlin--Opposition to the new bishoprics, by Orange, Egmont, and other influential nobles--Fury of the people at the continued presence of the foreign soldiery--Orange resigns the command of the legion--The troops recalled--Philip's personal attention to the details of persecution--Perrenot becomes Cardinal de Granvelle--All the power of government in his hands--His increasing unpopularity--Animosity and violence of Egmont towards the Cardinal--Relations between Orange and Granvelle--Ancient friendship gradually changing to enmity--Renewal of the magistracy at Antwerp--Quarrel between the Prince and Cardinal--Joint letter of Orange and Egmont to the King--Answer of the King--Indignation of Philip against Count Horn--Secret correspondence between the King and Cardinal--Remonstrances against the new bishoprics--Philip's private financial statements--Penury of the exchequer in Spain and in the provinces--Plan for debasing the coin--Marriage of William the Silent with the Princess of Lorraine circumvented--Negotiations for his matrimonial alliance with Princess Anna of Saxony-- Correspondence between Granvelle and Philip upon the subject-- Opposition of Landgrave Philip and of Philip the Second--Character and conduct of Elector Augustus--Mission of Count Schwartzburg-- Communications of Orange to the King and to Duchess Margaret-- Characteristic letter of Philip--Artful conduct of Granvelle and of the Regent--Visit of Orange to Dresden--Proposed note of Elector Augustus--Refusal of the Prince--Protest of the Landgrave against the marriage--Preparations for the wedding at Leipzig--Notarial instrument drawn up on the marriage day--Wedding ceremonies and festivities--Entrance of Granvelle into Mechlin as Archbishop-- Compromise in Brabant between the abbeys and bishops. The odium of the measure was placed upon the head of that churchman, already appointed Archbishop of Mechlin, and soon to be known as Cardinal Granvelle.
    keywords: account; affairs; anna; answer; appointment; archbishop; augsburg; augustus; bishoprics; bishops; brabant; bride; bridegroom; brother; cardinal; catholic; certain; character; charles; children; church; churchman; city; command; company; conduct; consent; continued; council; councillors; count; country; daughter; day; difficult; dignity; ducats; duchess; ecclesiastical; edicts; egmont; elector; emperor; entrance; estates; favor; force; foreign; friendship; future; germany; god; good; government; granvelle; great; hand; horn; house; important; influence; king; lady; landgrave; language; leipsic; letter; life; little; long; longer; lorraine; majesty; man; manner; marriage; match; matters; maurice; measure; mechlin; memorandum; mind; necessary; netherlands; new; nobles; note; offence; office; opposition; orange; people; perrenot; philip; place; point; possible; prelate; presence; present; prince; princess; private; provinces; rank; reason; regard; regent; relations; religion; religious; reply; right; royal; saxony; scheme; secret; seignors; spain; spanish; state; subject; terms; things; thought; time; town; troops; von; wedding; william; words; years; young
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        item: #23 of 121
          id: 4807
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 07: 1561-62
        date: None
       words: 17201
      flesch: 61
     summary: It is possible that the King and Granvelle were sincere in their protestations of entertaining no intention of introducing it into the Netherlands, although the protestations of such men are entitled to but little weight. The blasphemy with which the name of Jesus was used by such men to sanctify all these nameless horrors, is certainly not the least of their crimes.
    keywords: advice; authorities; authority; avowed; berghen; bishoprics; bishops; blood; cardinal; catholic; cause; charles; children; civil; contrary; council; count; country; course; daily; day; deal; death; des; determined; doubt; duchess; edicts; effect; egmont; emperor; envoy; episcopal; escape; establishment; execution; eyes; fact; father; fire; flames; france; friend; general; god; good; government; granvelle; great; half; hand; head; heresy; heretics; holy; house; human; inquisition; inquisitors; institution; instructions; intention; judges; king; leading; letters; life; little; long; magistrates; majesty; man; manner; margaret; matter; measures; meeting; men; mind; minister; mission; monarch; monk; montigny; nature; necessary; netherlands; new; nobles; number; offence; office; open; opposition; orange; order; papal; parma; people; persecution; person; philip; place; poor; popular; power; present; president; prince; prisoner; provinces; rack; regent; religious; renard; right; royal; sacred; scaffold; secret; seigniors; sentence; service; simon; sincere; sovereign; spain; spanish; stake; states; subject; sword; system; terrible; thing; time; titelmann; torture; truth; tyranny; valenciennes; victims; viglius; way; wife; witness; words; work; years
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        item: #24 of 121
          id: 4808
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
        date: None
       words: 20650
      flesch: 59
     summary: Yet it appears by the admissions of Del Ryo, one of Alva's blood council, that, Cardinal Granvelle expressly advised that an army of Spaniards should be sent to the Netherlands, to maintain the obedience to his Majesty and the Catholic religion, and that the Duke of Alva was appointed chief by the advice of Cardinal Spinosa, and by that of Cardinal Granvelle, as, appeared by many letters written at the time to his friends. [CHAPTER IV.] Joint letter to Philip, from Orange, Egmont, and Horn--Egmont's quarrel with Aerschot and with Aremberg--Philip's answer to the three nobles--His instructions to the Duchess--Egmont declines the King's invitation to visit Spain--Second letter of the three seigniors--Mission of Armenteros--Letter of Alva--Secret letters of Granvelle to Philip--The Cardinal's insinuations and instructions-- His complaints as to the lukewarmness of Berghen and Montigny in the cause of the inquisition--Anecdotes to their discredit privately chronicled by Granvelle--Supposed necessity for the King's presence in the provinces--Correspondence of Lazarus Schwendi--Approaching crisis--Anxiety of Granvelle to retire--Banquet of Caspar Schetz-- Invention of the foolscap livery--Correspondence of the Duchess and of the Cardinal with Philip upon the subject--Entire withdrawal of the three seigniors from the state council--the King advises with Alva concerning the recall of Granvelle--Elaborate duplicity of Philip's arrangements--His secret note to the Cardinal--His dissembling letters to others--Departure of Granvelle from the Netherlands--Various opinions as to its cause--Ludicrous conduct of Brederode and Hoogstraaten--Fabulous statements in Granvelle's correspondence concerning his recall--Universal mystification--The Cardinal deceived by the King--Granvelle in retirement--His epicureanism--Fears in the provinces as to his return--Universal joy at his departure--Representations to his discredit made by the Duchess to Philip--Her hypocritical letters to the Cardinal-- Masquerade at Count Mansfeld's--Chantonnay's advice to his brother-- Review of Granvelle's administration and estimate of his character.
    keywords: account; administration; aerschot; affairs; affected; alva; answer; aremberg; armenteros; authority; berghen; berlaymont; best; brother; brussels; burgundy; cardinal; cardinal granvelle; care; cause; certain; character; communication; conclusion; conduct; conversation; council; count; country; course; daily; days; departure; desire; despatches; determined; difficult; duchess; duke; duty; effect; egmont; express; eyes; face; fact; favor; friend; general; gentlemen; god; good; government; grandees; granvelle; great; hand; hatred; head; high; hope; horn; important; inquisition; instructions; intention; journey; king; large; later; league; leave; letter; life; little; livery; long; madrid; majesty; man; manner; march; margaret; marquis; matter; mind; minister; moment; monarch; months; montigny; morillon; nation; nature; necessary; necessity; netherlands; nobles; note; object; obvious; opinion; orange; order; parma; party; people; period; person; personage; philip; place; point; policy; political; possible; power; powerful; presence; present; prince; private; provinces; public; quarrel; question; reason; regard; regent; religion; religious; remedy; reply; return; royal; secret; secretary; seigniors; service; sovereign; spain; state; step; subject; things; thought; time; tis; true; truth; viglius; visit; way; willing; world; year
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        item: #25 of 121
          id: 4809
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65
        date: None
       words: 17318
      flesch: 59
     summary: The conversation then fell upon other topics, among others, naturally upon the mission of Count Egmont. Early in the month of December, a famous tournament was held in the great market-place of Brussels, the Duke of Parma, the Duke of Aerschot, and Count Egmont being judges of the jousts.
    keywords: account; administration; affairs; alva; ancient; appearance; archbishop; armenteros; assembly; best; bishops; brabant; brederode; brief; brother; brussels; business; cambray; cardinal; case; catharine; catholic; certain; character; church; city; commands; conduct; conversation; corruption; council; count; country; course; daily; day; days; decrees; departure; determination; determined; doctors; document; doubt; duchess; duke; ecclesiastical; edicts; egmont; envoy; estates; face; faith; favor; free; french; friends; general; gentlemen; god; government; granvelle; great; ground; hands; head; heart; heresy; heretics; highest; honor; hoogstraaten; hopper; horn; houses; important; indignation; inquisition; inquisitors; instructions; king; language; large; law; leave; letters; life; little; long; longer; majesty; man; mansfeld; margaret; market; matter; men; mission; monarch; necessary; netherlands; new; night; nobles; occasion; offices; opinion; orange; order; party; people; period; persecution; personage; persons; philip; place; point; poor; popular; position; prelate; present; president; prince; private; proceedings; provinces; public; punishment; queen; reason; regard; regent; religion; religious; remarkable; return; royal; saint; secret; secretary; seigniors; spain; spanish; state; subject; table; terms; time; titelmann; trent; truth; viglius; world; year; young
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        item: #26 of 121
          id: 4810
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
        date: None
       words: 27174
      flesch: 61
     summary: Orange quietly rebuked this truculent language, by assuring him both that such a process would be more difficult than he thought, and that he would also find many men of great respectability among the vagabonds. Yet there are such men, who, because their ancestors have done some valorous deed, think themselves fit to direct the machinery of a whole country, having from their youth learned nothing but to dance and to spin like weathercocks with their heads as well as their heels.
    keywords: accomplished; advice; aldegonde; ancient; answer; antwerp; appearance; april; aremberg; armed; art; assembly; associates; august; band; banquet; beggars; berghen; berlaymont; better; blood; body; bowl; breaking; brederode; brother; brussels; cathedral; catholic; cause; certain; chamber; character; charles; church; churches; cities; citizens; city; civil; company; compromise; conclusion; conduct; confederacy; confederates; confidence; congregation; council; country; course; crowd; culemburg; daily; danger; day; days; death; departure; doctrines; document; doubt; duchess; duke; duty; early; earnest; ecclesiastical; edicts; effect; egmont; england; epoch; events; eye; father; feet; field; flanders; fleece; force; foreign; friends; furious; general; generation; gentlemen; god; good; government; great; ground; hands; hard; heads; highness; holland; holy; home; honest; hoogstraaten; horn; hour; house; human; ill; image; important; inquisition; intention; july; junius; king; language; large; league; leave; letters; liberty; like; likely; little; long; lost; louis; loyal; madrid; magistrates; magnificent; majesty; making; man; manner; mansfeld; margaret; matters; means; meantime; meeting; meghen; men; mind; mission; moderation; moment; montigny; morning; movement; multitude; names; nassau; necessary; netherlands; new; night; nobles; number; occasion; old; open; orange; order; paper; parma; party; people; persecution; personage; persons; petition; petitioners; philip; place; political; popular; preacher; preaching; presence; present; previous; prince; principle; proceedings; procession; provinces; public; purpose; ready; reason; rebellion; reformation; reformers; regent; religion; religious; remarkable; request; result; sacred; sainte; secret; seigniors; senate; sermon; small; spain; spirit; state; statues; storm; streets; subject; time; tournay; town; troops; tumult; usual; viglius; violent; visit; wallet; walls; war; way; wild; wine; words; work; years
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        item: #27 of 121
          id: 4811
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66)
        date: None
       words: 188547
      flesch: 60
     summary: Among the mothers of great men, Juliana of Stolberg deserves a foremost place, and it is no slight eulogy that she was worthy to have been the mother of William of Orange and of Lewis, Adolphus, Henry, and John of Nassau. To these conferences Orange invited Egmont, Horn, Hoogstraaten, Berghen, Meghen, Montigny, and other great nobles.
    keywords: abbey; abdication; absence; absolute; absolution; accomplished; account; accustomed; action; additional; address; administration; admiral; admiration; advanced; advantage; advice; aerschot; affairs; affected; affection; age; ages; alive; alliance; alva; ambition; ambitious; america; ancestors; ancient; annual; answer; antwerp; anxious; appearance; appointment; appropriate; april; arbitrary; archbishop; aremberg; arguments; armed; armenteros; armies; arms; army; arrangements; arras; arrival; artisans; arts; aspect; assembly; associates; attack; attempt; attention; audience; augsburg; august; augustus; authorities; authority; avowed; aware; bad; banquet; baron; batavian; battle; bear; beautiful; beggars; beginning; berghen; berlaymont; best; birth; bishop; bishoprics; bitter; black; blood; blow; board; bodies; body; bold; book; brabant; branches; breaking; brederode; bride; brief; brilliant; broad; broken; brother; bruges; brussels; burghers; burgundian; burgundy; burning; business; caesar; cambray; campaign; capacity; caraffa; cardinal; career; cast; cathedral; catholic; cause; cavalry; celebrated; centuries; century; ceremony; certain; chain; chamber; change; chapter; character; characteristic; charlemagne; charles; charters; chief; children; chivalry; christendom; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; civil; civilis; claim; classes; clergy; clerical; close; cold; coligny; combat; command; commerce; commercial; common; commonwealth; communication; company; complete; compromise; conclusion; condition; conduct; confederates; confession; confidence; conflict; conqueror; conscience; consecrated; consent; consequence; considerable; constable; constant; constituted; constitution; contemporary; contest; continued; contrary; control; conversation; converted; correspondence; costume; council; councillors; countries; country; counts; courage; course; court; cousin; creatures; crime; criminal; cross; crown; culemburg; daily; danger; dangerous; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deadly; deal; death; decided; decision; decrees; deeds; defence; delay; demonstrations; departure; deputies; desirable; desire; desirous; despair; despatches; desperate; despotism; destruction; details; determination; determined; devotion; different; difficult; dignity; discourse; disposed; disposition; dissimulation; distinguished; divine; doctors; doctrines; document; dominion; doubt; ducats; duchess; duke; dutch; duties; duty; eager; earlier; early; earnest; earth; easy; ecclesiastical; edicts; education; effect; efforts; egmont; elaborate; elector; eloquence; emperor; empire; enemies; enemy; england; english; enormous; entire; entrance; envoy; episcopal; epoch; equal; erasmus; error; escape; establishment; estates; eternal; europe; events; evident; evil; example; excited; execution; exercise; exhausted; existence; exposed; express; extensive; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faith; faithful; fall; false; family; famous; fast; fate; father; favor; favorite; fear; february; feeble; feet; fellow; ferdinand; festivities; field; fierce; fifth; fine; fire; firm; flames; flanders; fleece; flemings; flemish; florins; foe; followers; following; foot; force; foreign; foremost; forest; forms; fortune; france; francis; freedom; french; frequent; fresh; friends; friendship; friesland; frisian; frontier; functions; furious; furnished; future; gain; game; garrison; gate; gaul; general; generation; genius; gentlemen; german; ghent; glory; god; golden; gomez; good; government; governor; grand; grandees; granvelle; grave; great; great nobles; greater; greatest; ground; guard; guests; guilds; guise; habitual; half; hall; hand; handsome; hard; hatred; head; heart; heaven; heavy; henry; hereditary; heresy; heretics; hero; high; highest; highness; historical; history; hold; holding; holland; holy; home; honest; honor; honorable; hoogstraaten; hope; horn; horrible; hostilities; hour; house; human; humanity; humble; hungary; husband; idle; ignorant; illustrious; image; imagination; immediate; immense; imperial; important; income; indignation; individual; industry; inevitable; infamous; infantry; inflamed; influence; informed; inhabitants; inquisition; inquisitors; insolence; instant; institutions; instructions; intelligence; intended; intention; interests; interview; iron; italian; italy; john; journey; joy; judges; july; justice; kind; king; kingdom; knights; knowledge; known; lady; landgrave; language; large; later; law; laws; leading; league; learning; leave; left; length; letter; liberal; liberty; life; like; likely; little; lives; living; local; lofty; long; longer; look; lord; lorraine; lost; louis; louvain; love; luther; madrid; magistrates; magnificent; main; majesty; making; man; mankind; manner; mansfeld; march; margaret; market; marquis; marriage; marshal; martyrdom; mary; mass; master; matters; maurice; maximilian; meaning; means; meantime; measure; mechlin; medici; meeting; meghen; members; memorable; men; merchants; mercy; mere; merit; middle; midst; military; millions; mind; minister; mission; moderate; moderation; moment; monarch; money; monk; months; montigny; montmorency; moral; morning; mother; motives; motley; mounted; movement; multitude; municipal; murder; mutual; names; nassau; nation; national; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; negotiations; neighborhood; netherlands; nevers; new; nobility; nobleman; nobles; note; notice; number; numerous; obedience; object; obscure; obvious; occasion; ocean; odious; offence; office; officers; old; open; opinion; opportunity; opposed; oppression; orange; order; organized; original; papal; paper; pardon; paris; parma; particular; parties; party; passion; past; path; paul; pay; people; period; permission; perpetual; persecution; personage; personal; persons; peter; petition; petty; philip; picture; pieces; pious; place; plan; pleasure; point; policy; political; pontiff; poor; pope; populace; popular; population; portion; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; practical; preacher; preaching; prelate; preparations; prepared; presence; present; president; pretext; previous; priests; prince; princess; principal; principle; prisoners; private; privileges; privy; probable; proceedings; procession; profit; profound; progress; property; protection; protestant; proud; provinces; provincial; provisions; public; punishment; purpose; quarrel; queen; quentin; question; race; rank; ready; real; reality; realms; reason; rebellion; recorded; reformation; reformers; refuge; regard; regent; regret; regular; relations; religion; religious; remarkable; remedy; reply; report; republic; reputation; request; required; residence; resistance; respect; rest; result; retirement; retreat; return; revenue; revolt; rhetoric; rhine; rich; ridiculous; right; rigor; rise; river; roman; rome; royal; ruy; sacred; said; saint; sake; sanguinary; satisfaction; satisfactory; satisfied; save; savoy; saxony; scaffold; scene; scheme; scriptures; sea; second; secret; secretary; seigniors; self; senate; senators; sense; sentence; sentiments; separate; series; sermon; service; set; severe; share; short; shoulders; siege; signal; silent; similar; simple; sincere; single; sister; sixteenth; sketch; slavery; slaves; small; smooth; society; soil; soldier; solemn; soul; source; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; spectacle; spirit; splendid; spread; state; stately; statement; step; storm; streets; strength; strong; struggle; subject; subsequent; success; successful; successor; sudden; sufficient; superfluous; support; supreme; suspicion; sustained; sword; sympathy; system; talents; task; taste; terms; terrible; territory; theology; thermes; thing; thought; thousands; throne; time; titelmann; title; tone; tongue; torture; tournay; town; trade; treaty; tremendous; trent; tribes; tribunal; triumph; triumphant; troops; true; truth; tumult; tyranny; unable; unfortunate; united; universal; upper; usual; utrecht; uttered; valenciennes; valor; value; van; vast; vengeance; victims; victory; views; viglius; vigorous; violence; violent; virgin; visit; walls; war; warfare; waters; way; weak; wealth; wedding; weeks; wide; wife; wild; william; willing; wine; wished; witness; women; wood; words; work; world; worship; worthy; wrath; writers; years; young; youth; zeal
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        item: #28 of 121
          id: 4812
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 11: 1566, part II
        date: None
       words: 14899
      flesch: 56
     summary: Notwithstanding this highly figurative view of the subject; and notwithstanding the urgent representations of Duchess Margaret to her brother, that nobles and people were all clamoring about the necessity of convening the states general, Philip was true to his instincts on this as on the other questions. Upon the 2nd day of January, 1567, the Seignior de Noircarmes arrived before the gates at the head of eleven companies, with orders from Duchess Margaret to strengthen the garrison and disarm the citizens.
    keywords: 24th; accord; admiral; agreement; ancient; antwerp; articles; august; best; better; body; breaking; brederode; brother; brussels; catholics; cause; certain; character; church; churches; citizens; city; close; concessions; conduct; confederates; consent; correspondence; councillor; country; course; day; determined; doubt; duchess; edicts; egmont; events; exercises; exertions; flanders; force; future; garrison; general; god; good; government; great; heretics; holland; hoogstraaten; hope; horn; image; important; influence; inhabitants; inquisition; intention; king; language; letters; life; little; long; louis; madrid; magistrates; majesty; man; margaret; matter; means; moderation; moment; money; montigny; necessary; necessity; netherlands; new; nobles; noircarmes; orange; order; pardon; people; personages; philip; place; points; policy; pope; position; power; preaching; present; prince; proceedings; provinces; public; purpose; reformers; regard; regent; religion; religious; royal; secret; seigniors; service; single; sovereign; spain; states; strong; terms; thought; time; tournay; treason; troops; valenciennes; way; year
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        item: #29 of 121
          id: 4813
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 12: 1567, part I
        date: None
       words: 15850
      flesch: 63
     summary: If such important cities as Flushing and Middelburg could be gained, he thought it possible to prevent the armed invasion now soon expected from Spain. Noircarmes had been drawing the lines more and more closely about the city, and by a refinement of cruelty had compelled many Calvinists from Tournay to act as pioneers in the trenches against their own brethren in Valenciennes.
    keywords: aerschot; alva; amsterdam; antwerp; april; armed; arms; army; arrangement; articles; assistance; authority; battle; beauvoir; brederode; brussels; calvinists; catholics; cause; children; christian; churches; cities; citizens; city; conduct; conscience; council; country; courage; course; crown; day; days; death; departure; deputies; duchess; duke; early; edict; egmont; enemy; events; fate; field; fierce; fire; force; friends; fugitives; gallows; garrison; gates; germany; god; good; government; great; half; hand; heads; heart; holland; hoogstraaten; inhabitants; intention; interview; king; language; leave; letter; liberty; like; little; long; lutherans; magistrates; majesty; man; manner; mansfeld; march; margaret; mere; mob; moment; monarch; morning; necessary; netherlands; new; night; noircarmes; number; oath; offices; orange; order; ostrawell; parma; people; persons; philip; pieces; place; pledge; population; prince; property; provinces; purpose; rebels; reformers; regent; religion; religious; rest; royal; saint; secretary; service; siege; soldiers; spanish; spirit; street; terms; tholouse; time; torre; town; troops; true; tumult; valenciennes; walls; william; winter; word; work; worship
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        item: #30 of 121
          id: 4814
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II
        date: None
       words: 16472
      flesch: 57
     summary: At Tirlemont, on the 22d August, he was met by Count Egmont, who had ridden forth from Brussels to show him a becoming respect, as the representative of his sovereign, The Count was accompanied by several other noblemen, and brought to the Duke a present of several beautiful horses. [Part III., ALVA, CHAPTER 1.] Continued dissensions in the Spanish cabinet--Ruy Gomez and Alva-- Conquest of the Netherlands entrusted to the Duke--Birth, previous career and character of Alva--Organization of the invading army-- Its march to the provinces--Complaints of Duchess Margaret--Alva receives deputations on the frontier--Interview between the Duke and Egmont--Reception of Alva by the Duchess of Parma--Circular letters to the cities requiring their acceptance of garrisons--Margaret's secret correspondence--Universal apprehension--Keys of the great cities demanded by Alva--Secret plans of the government, arranged before the Duke's departure--Arrest of Orange, Egmont, Horn, and others, determined upon--Stealthy course of the government towards them--Infatuation of Egmont--Warnings addressed to him by De Billy and others--Measures to entrap Count Horn--Banquet of the Grand Prior--The Grand Prior's warning to Egmont--Evil counsels of Noircarmes--Arrests of Egmont, Horn, Bakkerzeel and Straalen-- Popular consternation--Petulant conduct of Duchess Margaret-- Characteristic comments of Granvelle--His secret machinations and disclaimers--Berghen and Montigny--Last moments of Marquis Berghen-- Perfidy of Ruy Gomez--Establishment of the Blood-Council--Its leading features--Insidious behavior of Viglius--Secret correspondence, concerning the President, between Philip and Alva-- Members of the Blood-Council--Portraits of Vargas and Hessels-- Mode of proceeding adopted by the council--Wholesale executions-- Despair in the provinces--The resignation of Duchess Margaret accepted--Her departure from the Netherlands--Renewed civil war in France--Death of Montmorency--
    keywords: accomplished; advice; alva; antwerp; arms; army; arrest; arrival; attendants; august; authority; battle; bergen; billy; blood; board; brief; brother; brussels; captain; cardinal; career; case; catholic; character; citadel; cities; city; command; committed; consequence; council; councillors; count; country; course; crime; daily; day; days; death; departure; determined; different; distinguished; document; don; duchess; duke; eboli; egmont; emperor; escape; europe; express; fate; ferdinando; force; france; friend; general; gentlemen; god; government; grand; granvelle; great; hand; head; high; history; horn; house; human; important; information; interview; john; journey; king; language; letters; life; like; little; long; madame; majesty; man; manner; margaret; marquis; master; members; men; military; moment; monarch; montigny; necessary; netherlands; new; noircarmes; occasion; orange; order; parma; period; person; philip; place; possible; presence; present; president; prince; principal; prior; prison; private; proceedings; provinces; regent; repeated; right; royal; save; second; secret; secretary; september; services; small; soldiers; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; subject; sword; terrible; thought; time; toledo; treason; tribunal; troops; true; vargas; visit; war; way; years
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        item: #31 of 121
          id: 4815
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 14: 1568, part I
        date: None
       words: 19309
      flesch: 64
     summary: THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC By John Lothrop Motley 1855 1568 [CHAPTER II.] Orange, Count Louis, Hoogstraaten, and others, cited before the Blood-Council--Charges against them--Letter of Orange in reply-- Position and sentiments of the Prince--Seizure of Count de Buren-- Details of that transaction--Petitions to the Council from Louvain and other places--Sentence of death against the whole population of the Netherlands pronounced by the Spanish Inquisition and proclaimed by Philip--Cruel inventions against heretics--The Wild Beggars-- Preliminary proceedings of the Council against Egmont and Horn-- Interrogatories addressed to them in prison--Articles of accusation against them--Foreclosure of the cases--Pleas to the jurisdiction-- Efforts by the Countesses Egmont and Horn, by many Knights of the Fleece, and by the Emperor, in favor of the prisoners--Answers of Alva and of Philip--Obsequious behavior of Viglius--Difficulties arising from the Golden Fleece statutes set aside--Particulars of the charges against Count Horn and of his defence--Articles of accusation against Egmont--Sketch of his reply--Reflections upon the two trials--Attitude of Orange-- These persons visited the Admiral on the 10th, 11th, 12th and 17th of November, and Count Egmont on the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 16th, of the same month; requiring them to respond to a long, confused, and rambling collection of interrogatories.
    keywords: admiral; alva; antwerp; aremberg; arms; army; arrest; arrival; articles; battle; beggars; behalf; bishop; blood; body; brother; brussels; cause; cavalry; certain; character; children; city; commission; conduct; confiscation; council; count; countess; country; course; crimes; daily; day; days; death; disposed; duchess; duke; edicts; egmont; emperor; enemy; estates; events; evidence; execution; eyes; fate; favor; fell; fleece; force; freedom; friesland; general; god; golden; good; government; governor; granvelle; great; ground; gueux; hand; having; head; high; hill; holy; hoogstraaten; horn; house; husband; infantry; inquisition; june; jurisdiction; king; knights; language; large; law; letter; life; little; long; louis; louvain; madame; majesty; making; man; manner; measures; meghem; men; moment; monarch; nassau; nature; necessary; netherlands; new; nobles; orange; order; parma; people; personal; persons; petition; philip; pieces; place; plan; position; president; prince; prisoners; proceedings; pronounced; protection; provinces; purpose; rebellion; rebels; regard; religious; reply; said; saint; scaffold; secret; sentence; service; single; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; square; statutes; step; sufficient; time; tournay; treason; trial; tribunal; troops; truth; tyranny; viceroy; victims; vivent; way; words; work; world; young
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        item: #32 of 121
          id: 4816
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 15: 1568, part II
        date: None
       words: 20712
      flesch: 66
     summary: The young Prince was always fond of soldiers, and listened eagerly to discourses of war. The outlawed, exiled Prince stood once more on the borders of Brabant, with an army of disciplined troops at his back.
    keywords: able; account; affair; age; alva; anne; answer; apparent; archduke; arms; army; authority; battle; bed; blood; body; brabant; brother; brussels; campaign; carlos; cause; cavalry; character; charles; christian; combat; command; consequence; contrary; count; country; course; daily; days; death; deep; defeat; determined; don; duke; effect; emperor; empire; end; enemy; envoy; escape; execution; faithful; father; favor; field; fierce; fire; foot; force; france; freedom; friends; friesland; general; germany; god; good; governor; granvelle; great; groningen; ground; guard; hand; head; heart; hope; house; human; imperial; important; inhabitants; inquisition; instructions; jemmingen; king; language; large; left; letter; liberty; life; little; long; louis; madrid; majesty; man; matter; means; meantime; measures; men; meuse; mission; moment; monarch; money; musketeers; mutinous; natural; nature; necessary; netherlands; night; occasion; opinion; orange; order; passage; patriots; people; person; philip; place; position; possible; present; prince; provinces; public; rebels; religion; religious; remarkable; result; return; reyden; river; road; second; secret; service; set; single; small; soldiers; son; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; strong; successful; sure; time; troops; true; truth; tyranny; usual; van; victory; village; violent; war; water; way; work; world; young
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        item: #33 of 121
          id: 4817
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 16: 1569-70
        date: None
       words: 13494
      flesch: 63
     summary: A short digression must here be allowed, to narrate the remaining fortunes of that son, the ill-starred Seigneur de Montigny. Dort, Rotterdam, and many other cities were, for a time, almost submerged.
    keywords: act; alonzo; alva; amnesty; article; benefit; blood; brussels; case; castle; cent; certain; church; cities; city; clemency; close; condemnation; continued; council; country; course; crime; day; death; destruction; determined; don; duke; effect; england; escape; estates; eugenio; exceptions; execution; following; fortress; funds; general; god; government; governor; great; head; heresy; hope; hour; house; human; hundredth; innocent; interests; justice; king; leave; letter; liberty; life; little; long; madrid; majesty; man; master; measure; mercy; millions; moment; months; montigny; morning; necessary; netherlands; new; occasion; october; opposition; order; pardon; penny; people; peralta; persons; philip; place; present; president; prince; prisoner; property; provinces; public; queen; real; religious; resistance; return; royal; said; saint; save; secret; segovia; sentence; severe; short; simancas; spain; spanish; sword; system; tax; tenth; terrible; thought; time; tower; twentieth; tyranny; utrecht; viceroy; viglius; way; work; year; yearly
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        item: #34 of 121
          id: 4818
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 17: 1570-72
        date: None
       words: 14352
      flesch: 64
     summary: [CHAPTER VI.] Orange and Count Louis in France--Peace with the Huguenots-- Coligny's memoir, presented by request to Charles IX., on the subject of invading the Netherlands--Secret correspondence of Orange organized by Paul Buys--Privateering commissions issued by the Prince--Regulations prescribed by him for the fleets thus created-- Impoverished condition of the Prince--His fortitude--His personal sacrifices and privations--His generosity--Renewed contest between the Duke and the Estates on the subject of the tenth and twentieth pence--Violent disputes in the council--Firm opposition of Viglius-- Edict commanding the immediate collection of the tax--Popular tumults--Viglius denounced by Alva--The Duke's fierce complaints to the King--Secret schemes of Philip against Queen Elizabeth of England--The Ridolphi plot to murder Elizabeth countenanced by Philip and Pius V.--The King's orders to Alva to further the plan-- The Duke's remonstrances--Explosion of the plot--Obstinacy of Philip--Renewed complaints of Alva as to the imprudent service required of him--Other attempts of Philip to murder Elizabeth--Don John of Austria in the Levant----Battle of Lepanto--Slothfulness of Selim--Appointment of Medina Celi--Incessant wrangling in Brussels upon the tax--Persevering efforts of Orange--Contempt of Alva for the Prince--Proposed sentence of ignominy against his name--Sonoy's mission to Germany--Remarkable papers issued by the Prince--The harangue--Intense hatred for Alva entertained by the highest as well as lower orders--Visit of Francis de Alva to Brussels--His unfavourable report to the King--Querulous language of the Duke-- Deputation to Spain--Universal revolt against the tax--Ferocity of Alva--Execution of eighteen tradesmen secretly ordered--Interrupted by the capture of Brill--Beggars of the sea--The younger Wild Boar of Ardennes--Reconciliation between the English government and that of Alva--The Netherland privateersmen ordered out of English ports-- De la Marck's fleet before Brill--The town summoned to surrender-- Commissioners sent out to the fleet--Flight of the magistrates and townspeople--Capture of the place--Indignation of Alva--Popular exultation in Brussels--Puns and Caricatures--Bossu ordered to recover the town of Brill--His defeat--His perfidious entrance into Rotterdam--Massacre in that city--Flushing revolutionized-- Unsuccessful attempt of Governor de Bourgogne to recal the citizens to their obedience--Expedition under Treslong from Brill to assist the town of Flushing--Murder of Paccheco by the Patriots--Zeraerts appointed Governor of Walcheren by Orange. Philip, in compliance with the Duke's repeated requests, and perhaps not entirely satisfied with the recent course of events in the provinces, had at last, after great hesitation, consented to Alva's resignation.
    keywords: admiral; affair; alva; ambassador; army; arrival; authority; battle; beggars; berlaymont; blood; bossu; brill; brother; brussels; capture; cause; character; citizens; city; coligny; command; condition; consent; council; councillors; country; course; daily; day; different; don; duke; earth; elizabeth; england; envoy; estates; example; fleet; flight; flushing; force; france; francis; friends; gate; germany; god; good; government; governor; great; half; hand; hatred; huguenots; important; impossible; inhabitants; john; king; known; language; life; little; long; louis; magistrates; majesty; man; marck; master; means; meantime; men; moment; monarch; money; mouth; murder; necessary; netherlands; norfolk; number; open; opinion; opposition; orange; orders; penny; people; persons; philip; place; plan; plot; popular; power; president; prince; provinces; queen; rage; revolt; ridolfi; scheme; sea; secret; seigneur; service; ships; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; subject; sword; tax; tenth; time; town; treslong; troops; vessels; viceroy; viglius; war; wild; years
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        item: #35 of 121
          id: 4819
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 18: 1572
        date: None
       words: 14985
      flesch: 62
     summary: Many cities and villages accepted his authority and admitted his garrisons. Louvain purchased its neutrality for the time with sixteen thousand ducats; Brussels obstinately refused to listen to him, and was too powerful to be forcibly attacked at that juncture; other important cities, convinced by the arguments and won by the eloquence of the various proclamations which he scattered as he advanced, ranged themselves spontaneously and even enthusiastically upon his side.
    keywords: 15th; admiral; affairs; alva; arms; army; august; authority; bartholomew; blood; brother; camp; catholic; cause; certain; charles; christian; circumstances; cities; city; coeli; coligny; condition; conduct; congress; council; count; country; course; crime; day; days; death; divine; don; dort; duke; effect; end; enemy; envoy; estates; event; field; fleet; foot; force; france; frederic; freedom; french; gates; general; genlis; god; good; government; great; hands; head; heart; holland; huguenots; human; important; intelligence; july; king; language; left; letter; life; little; long; louis; magistrates; majesty; man; massacre; master; mechlin; medina; moment; mons; morning; nassau; necessary; netherlands; new; news; noircarmes; number; oath; officers; orange; order; paris; pay; people; philip; place; position; power; prince; prisoners; property; provinces; provisional; public; reinforcements; religion; religious; revolution; royal; said; saint; september; set; siege; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; stadholder; subjects; terms; time; town; troops; war; way; work; world; years
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        item: #36 of 121
          id: 4820
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 19: 1572-73
        date: None
       words: 14638
      flesch: 65
     summary: ] Affairs in Holland and Zealand--Siege of Tergoes by the patriots-- Importance of the place--Difficulty of relieving it--Its position-- Audacious plan for sending succor across the Drowned Land-- Brilliant and successful expedition of Mondragon--The siege raised-- Horrible sack of Zutphen--Base conduct of Count Van den Berg-- Refusal of Naarden to surrender--Subsequent unsuccessful deputation to make terms with Don Frederic--Don Frederic before Naarden-- Treachery of Romero--The Spaniards admitted--General massacre of the garrison and burghers--The city burned to the ground--Warm reception of Orange in Holland--Secret negotiations with the Estates-- Desperate character of the struggle between Spain and the provinces --Don Frederic in Amsterdam--Plans for reducing Holland--Skirmish on the ice at Amsterdam--Preparation in Harlem for the expected siege-- Description of the city--Early operations--Complete investment-- Numbers of besiegers and besieged--Mutual barbarities--Determined repulse of the first assault--Failure of Batenburg's expedition-- Cruelties in city and camp--Mining and countermining--Second assault victoriously repelled--Suffering and disease in Harlem--Disposition of Don Frederic to retire--Memorable rebuke by Alva--Efforts of Orange to relieve the place--Sonoy's expedition--Exploit of John Haring--Cruel execution of prisoners on both sides--Quiryn Dirkzoon and his family put to death in the city--Fleets upon the lake-- Defeat of the patriot armada--Dreadful suffering and starvation in the city--Parley with the besiegers--Despair of the city--Appeal to Orange--Expedition under Batenburg to relieve the city--His defeat and death--Desperate condition of Harlem--Its surrender at discretion--Sanguinary executions--General massacre--Expense of the victory in blood and money--Joy of Philip at the news. It was important to succor Harlem, but the Prince was of more value than many cities.
    keywords: accomplished; advanced; alive; alva; amsterdam; armed; arms; army; assault; attack; attempt; batenburg; besieged; besiegers; besieging; blood; bossu; brilliant; burghers; camp; cause; children; church; cities; citizens; city; command; country; daily; days; dead; death; december; despair; don; don frederic; duke; earth; enemy; expedition; fall; fate; father; field; fire; fleet; force; frederic; frozen; garrison; gates; good; great; half; hand; harlem; head; history; hold; holland; hollanders; house; ice; inhabitants; island; king; lake; large; left; letter; life; little; long; man; massacre; men; naarden; necessary; netherlands; north; number; opposite; orange; orders; patriot; place; population; possession; possible; prince; prisoners; province; ravelin; resistance; return; romero; sack; sacred; sea; secret; siege; single; soldiers; south; spaniards; spanish; spirit; streets; strong; struggle; succor; supplies; surrender; sword; tergoes; thought; time; town; troops; vessels; victims; victory; walls; water; way; women; work; zealand; zutphen
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        item: #37 of 121
          id: 4821
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 20: 1573
        date: None
       words: 15543
      flesch: 61
     summary: 'Tis impossible for me to support alone so many labors, and the weight of such great affairs as come upon me hourly--financial, military, political. [CHAPTER IX.] Position of Alva--Hatred entertained for him by elevated personages --Quarrels between him and Medina Coeli--Departure of the latter-- Complaints to the King by each of the other--Attempts at conciliation addressed by government to the people of the Netherlands--Grotesque character of the address--Mutinous demonstration of the Spanish troops--Secret overtures to Orange-- Obedience, with difficulty, restored by Alva--Commencement of the siege of Alkmaar--Sanguinary menaces of the Duke--Encouraging and enthusiastic language of the Prince--Preparations in Alkmaar for defence--The first assault steadily repulsed--Refusal of the soldiers to storm a second time--Expedition of the Carpenter-envoy-- Orders of the Prince to flood the country--The Carpenter's despatches in the enemy's hands--Effect produced upon the Spaniards --The siege raised--Negotiations of Count Louis with France-- Uneasiness and secret correspondence of the Duke--Convention with the English government--Objects pursued by Orange--Cruelty of De la Marck--His dismissal from office and subsequent death--Negotiations with France--Altered tone of the French court with regard to the St. Bartholomew--Ill effects of the crime upon the royal projects-- Hypocrisy of the Spanish government--Letter of Louis to Charles IX.
    keywords: accomplished; address; administration; admiral; affairs; alkmaar; alva; amsterdam; ancient; anjou; arms; army; attack; bartholomew; blood; bossu; brother; brussels; burghers; carpenter; cause; certain; character; charles; children; cities; citizens; city; clemency; close; coeli; council; country; course; court; crime; crown; cruelty; daily; day; days; death; departure; devoted; difficult; don; duke; early; effect; end; enemy; estates; father; force; france; frederic; freedom; french; general; germany; god; good; government; governor; great; hands; harlem; hatred; history; holland; ill; king; letter; liberty; life; like; little; living; long; louis; majesty; man; manner; massacre; master; means; medina; men; mercy; military; monarch; nation; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; orange; order; patriots; people; period; philip; picture; place; poland; position; possible; power; prince; private; provinces; purpose; religion; religious; royal; ruin; saint; schomberg; sea; secret; service; ships; siege; signal; soldiers; sonoy; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; storm; strong; subjects; successful; time; troops; tyranny; vengeance; walls; war; willing; words; work; year; zealand
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        item: #38 of 121
          id: 4822
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74
        date: None
       words: 22620
      flesch: 62
     summary: So great was their panic, as Louis drove them before him, that they never stopped till they had swum or been drowned in the river; the survivors carrying the news to Grave and to other cities that the royalists had been completely routed. The starving and heroic city, which had been so firm in its resistance to an earthly king, now bent itself in humble gratitude before the King of kings.
    keywords: action; administration; admiral; aldegonde; alva; ancient; antwerp; armada; army; arrival; artillery; attempt; authority; avila; battle; bed; bergen; besieging; blood; boisot; bread; brethren; brother; burghers; cannon; catholic; cause; cavalry; certain; children; church; citizens; city; commander; companies; condition; country; course; daily; dark; day; days; dead; death; desperate; determined; different; difficult; disposed; duke; dyke; effect; eletto; end; enemy; enterprise; estates; expedition; fate; field; fierce; fire; firm; fleet; flotilla; food; foot; force; foreign; fortress; france; gates; general; god; good; government; governor; grand; grave; great; half; hand; head; heavy; holland; hollanders; hope; house; human; infantry; inhabitants; john; king; lammen; land; left; letter; leyden; liberty; life; like; little; long; lost; louis; maestricht; meantime; measures; men; meuse; middelburg; moment; mondragon; months; mook; mutiny; narrow; necessary; neighbourhood; netherlands; new; north; number; occasion; ocean; opinion; opposite; orange; order; pardon; passage; patriots; people; philip; place; point; policy; population; position; possession; possible; prince; progress; provinces; rebellion; relief; religion; requesens; result; right; rise; river; romero; rotterdam; royal; saint; scheiding; sea; short; siege; small; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; starvation; strong; terms; thought; time; tower; town; troops; universal; university; valdez; vessels; victory; village; walls; war; waters; waves; way; william; wind; women; words; work; world; years; zealanders
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        item: #39 of 121
          id: 4823
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)
        date: None
       words: 182993
      flesch: 62
     summary: Dort, Rotterdam, and many other cities were, for a time, almost submerged. A Label upon the barrel contained these words: Deliver these ten heads to Duke Alva in payment of his tenpenny tax, with one additional head for interest.
    keywords: able; absolute; accomplished; accord; account; action; acts; addition; administration; admiral; advanced; advice; aerschot; affairs; affection; alarm; aldegonde; alive; alkmaar; alva; amnesty; amsterdam; ancient; answer; antwerp; anxious; apparent; appeal; appearance; approach; april; archduke; aremberg; armed; arms; army; arrangement; arrest; arrival; articles; artillery; aspect; assault; assembly; assumed; attack; attempt; august; authority; aware; band; batenburg; battle; beggars; beginning; behalf; bergen; berlaymont; besieged; besieging; best; bishop; black; blood; blow; board; bodies; body; boisot; bold; bossu; brabant; bread; breaking; breast; brederode; brethren; brief; brilliant; broken; brother; brussels; burghers; burgomaster; business; calvinists; camp; campaign; cannon; capable; captain; capture; cardinal; career; carlos; castle; catholic; cause; cavalry; celebrated; centuries; certain; chapter; character; charge; charles; chastisement; chief; children; christian; church; churches; circumstances; citadel; cities; citizens; city; civil; clemency; close; cold; coligny; combat; command; commander; commission; commissioners; committed; common; communication; companies; company; complete; compromise; conclusion; condemnation; condition; conduct; confederacy; confederates; confidence; confidential; confiscation; conflict; conquered; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; constitutional; contempt; contest; continued; contrary; correspondence; council; councillors; count louis; countess; country; counts; courage; course; court; covered; crime; crown; cruelty; daily; danger; dangerous; dark; day; days; dead; deal; death; december; decided; deed; deep; defeat; defence; delay; demand; demonstrations; departure; deputies; desire; despair; despatch; desperate; destruction; details; determination; determined; devoted; different; difficult; direction; disgrace; disposed; disposition; distance; distinguished; divine; document; don; doom; doomed; doubt; duchess; duke; dutch; duty; dying; dyke; eager; early; earnest; earth; edicts; effect; efforts; egmont; elizabeth; emperor; empire; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; enterprise; enthusiasm; entire; entrance; envoy; escape; estates; europe; evening; events; evidence; evil; example; excited; execution; exercise; exertions; existence; expected; expedition; expense; experience; express; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faithful; fall; fallen; false; family; famous; fast; fatal; fate; father; fatherland; favor; favorable; fear; fell; fellow; ferocious; field; fierce; fighting; fire; firm; flanders; fleece; fleet; flemish; flight; florins; flushing; foe; followers; following; food; foot; force; foreign; formal; fortress; fortunes; france; frederic; freedom; french; fresh; friendly; friends; friesland; frontier; fugitives; funds; furious; fury; future; gallows; garrison; gates; general; generous; genius; genlis; gentleman; germany; glory; god; golden; good; government; governor; grand; granvelle; grave; great; greater; groningen; ground; guard; half; hall; hand; harlem; hatred; having; head; heart; heavy; heresy; heretics; high; history; hitherto; hold; holland; hollanders; holy; home; honest; honor; honorable; hoogstraaten; hope; horn; horrible; horrors; hostile; hour; house; huguenots; human; husband; illustrious; image; immediate; impending; imperial; important; indignation; individuals; inevitable; infantry; influence; information; informed; inhabitants; innocent; inquisition; instant; instructions; intelligence; intention; interest; interview; invasion; iron; island; issue; january; jemmingen; john; judgment; july; june; justice; king; knights; known; lake; language; large; late; law; laws; leading; leave; left; letter; leyden; liberal; liberty; lieutenant; life; like; likely; little; lives; living; long; longer; loss; lost; louis; loyalty; madame; madrid; maestricht; magistracy; magistrates; main; majesty; making; man; manner; mansfeld; march; margaret; marquis; massacre; master; matters; means; meantime; measures; mechlin; medina; meeting; meghem; members; memorable; men; merchants; mercy; mere; meuse; middelburg; midnight; midst; military; millions; mind; misery; mission; moderation; moment; monarch; mondragon; money; mons; months; montigny; morning; mother; motives; motley; mouth; movements; murder; musketeers; mutiny; naarden; narrow; nassau; nation; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; negotiations; neighbourhood; netherlands; new; news; night; nobleman; nobles; noircarmes; north; number; o'clock; oath; obedience; object; obvious; occasion; ocean; october; offence; offer; officers; open; operations; opinion; opportunity; opposed; opposite; orange; order; outside; overthrow; panic; papers; pardon; parma; parties; party; passage; past; path; patriots; pay; penny; people; perfect; period; permission; permit; perpetual; personage; personal; persons; petition; philip; pieces; place; plan; pleasure; pledge; plot; point; policy; political; poor; pope; popular; population; position; possession; possibility; possible; power; powerful; preaching; preparations; prepared; presence; present; president; previous; prince; principal; prisoners; private; privileges; probable; proceedings; process; proclamation; profound; progress; project; promised; pronounced; proof; property; proposition; protection; protestant; provinces; public; punishment; purpose; quarters; queen; question; rank; ready; real; reality; reasons; rebellion; rebels; reformers; refuge; regard; regent; regret; reinforcements; relief; religion; religious; remarkable; repeated; reply; report; republic; requesens; request; rescue; resistance; respect; rest; result; retreat; return; revolt; rich; rights; river; road; roman; romero; royal; ruin; sack; sacred; safety; said; saint; sanguinary; satisfaction; satisfied; save; scaffold; scene; scheme; sea; season; second; secret; secretary; seigneur; seigniors; self; sense; sentence; sentiments; september; service; set; severe; share; ships; short; siege; signal; similar; simple; sincere; single; situation; slender; small; soldiers; solemn; sonoy; soul; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; spread; square; stadholder; statement; statutes; step; storm; streets; strength; strict; strong; struggle; subject; successful; successor; succor; suffering; sufficient; summons; superfluous; superior; supplies; supply; support; surprise; surrender; sword; sympathy; task; tax; tenth; terms; terrible; territory; things; tholouse; thought; thousands; throne; tide; time; toledo; tournay; town; treason; treaty; treslong; trial; tribunal; triumph; triumphant; troops; troubles; true; truth; tyranny; tyrant; unable; unfortunate; universal; usual; utrecht; vain; valdez; valenciennes; van; vargas; vast; vengeance; vessels; veteran; viceroy; victims; victory; views; viglius; village; violence; violent; visit; walcheren; walls; want; war; warning; water; waves; way; wealth; weeks; wide; wife; wild; william; willing; winter; witness; women; words; work; world; worship; worthy; wrath; wrong; years; young; zealand
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        item: #40 of 121
          id: 4824
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76
        date: None
       words: 15742
      flesch: 57
     summary: The ships which would have borne the heroic Prince and his fortunes might have taken the direction of the newly-discovered Western hemisphere. Saint Aldegonde was now released from prison upon parole, and despatched on a secret mission to the Prince and estates.
    keywords: affairs; aldegonde; alva; answer; anxious; assembly; assistance; authority; beginning; blood; body; brother; catholic; cause; certain; character; charlotte; cities; city; commander; commissioners; condition; consent; council; country; course; dangerous; day; days; death; determined; difficult; doctor; doubt; duiveland; effect; elector; elizabeth; emperor; empire; enemies; england; enterprise; envoys; estates; exercise; expedition; fire; florins; force; foreign; france; general; germany; god; government; governor; grand; great; hand; hitherto; holland; hollanders; human; important; inquisition; john; june; junius; king; landgrave; language; leave; leoninus; liberty; little; long; majesty; march; marriage; matter; means; moment; mondragon; money; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; offer; opinion; orange; paper; pardon; party; peace; people; philip; plenipotentiaries; population; possible; power; prince; princess; property; proposition; provinces; queen; question; ready; regard; religion; religious; requesens; result; royal; saint; saxony; schouwen; sea; secret; siege; soldiers; sonoy; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; strong; subject; terms; tholen; time; torture; troops; vessels; war; water; willing; words; years; zealand; zierickzee
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        item: #41 of 121
          id: 4825
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 23: 1576
        date: None
       words: 23379
      flesch: 64
     summary: The writer, who had taken refuge, together with Jerome de Roda and other Spaniards, or Hispaniolized persons, in Antwerp citadel, proceeded to sketch the preparations which were going on in Brussels, and the counter measures which were making progress in Antwerp. These constituted a correspondence between Sancho d'Avila with the heads of the mutiny at Alost, and many other places.
    keywords: affairs; alost; ancient; antwerp; armed; arms; army; attack; authority; band; blood; bodies; body; brabant; brigands; broken; brother; brussels; burghers; calvinists; cannon; capital; castle; catholic; cause; cavalry; champagny; character; chief; church; citadel; cities; citizens; city; close; commander; common; companies; condition; congress; council; councillor; country; courage; course; crisis; d'avila; daily; day; days; dead; death; deputies; destruction; different; disposed; don; duke; edict; effect; egmont; enemies; enemy; england; estates; fatal; fire; foe; force; foreign; fortress; france; fury; garrison; gate; general; german; ghent; god; gold; good; government; governor; great; half; hand; hatred; havre; heart; holland; hopper; hour; house; immediate; important; indignation; inquisition; jerome; john; justice; king; large; lay; left; letter; life; like; little; living; long; maestricht; majesty; man; marquis; massacre; master; means; meantime; men; merchants; military; moment; money; morning; mutineers; mutiny; necessary; netherlands; new; night; november; number; oberstein; occasion; officers; open; opposite; orange; order; party; people; person; philip; place; point; policy; political; population; position; possible; powers; present; prince; property; provinces; purpose; reason; religion; religious; requesens; roda; romero; royal; saint; sancho; saw; sea; secret; single; small; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; streets; strong; terms; thought; time; tis; town; treaty; troops; union; united; van; vargas; walloons; walls; way; wealth; work; world; years; zealand; zierickzee
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        item: #42 of 121
          id: 4826
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 24: 1576-77
        date: None
       words: 16453
      flesch: 59
     summary: To lift the Crucifix against the Crescent, at the head of the powerful but quarrelsome alliance between Venice, Spain, and Rome, Don John arrived at Naples. Don John's own ship lay yard-arm and yard-arm with the Turkish Admiral, and exposed to the fire of seven large vessels besides.
    keywords: admiral; aerschot; agreement; alva; antwerp; arrangement; arrival; articles; assembly; austria; authority; barbara; brief; brilliant; brother; brussels; catholic; cause; certain; charles; chief; christians; church; close; condition; confidence; council; country; course; day; days; demands; departure; deputies; difficult; document; don john; duke; edict; effect; emperor; envoys; escovedo; eyes; face; father; favor; force; foreign; future; general; ghent; glory; government; governor; great; half; hand; head; heart; history; holland; immediate; imperial; instructions; intention; interview; italy; journey; king; language; left; leoninus; letters; liberties; liberty; life; like; little; long; louvain; luxemburg; maintenance; majesty; man; matter; meantime; moment; monarch; necessary; necessity; negotiations; netherlands; new; number; oath; opinion; orange; order; pacification; peace; people; perpetual; personal; philip; point; pope; possible; power; prince; prisoners; private; promises; provinces; quixada; ready; religion; removal; result; royal; schemes; sea; secret; security; ship; slaves; soldiery; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; supremacy; time; treaty; troops; turkish; turks; tyranny; union; van; victory; war; william; words; years; young; zealand
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        item: #43 of 121
          id: 4827
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 25: 1577, part II
        date: None
       words: 12942
      flesch: 64
     summary: With such chiefs, and with Anthony and John--[Viz., John of Escovedo and Antony Perez.]-- for acolytes, he was of opinion that much good work might be done, and that Don John might become the staff for his Majesty's old age. He suggested that a strong administration might be formed in Spain, with Don John, the Marquis de Los Velez, and the Duke of Sesa.
    keywords: aerschot; affairs; assembly; best; brother; brussels; confidence; conscience; council; country; course; court; danger; day; different; don; don john; duke; efforts; end; english; envoy; escovedo; france; general; ghent; god; good; government; governor; great; hand; heart; highness; holland; important; john; king; language; leoninus; letters; liberty; life; like; little; long; longer; majesty; man; matter; means; mechlin; minister; moment; money; necessary; necessity; netherlands; old; orange; pacification; parties; party; peace; people; perez; person; philip; plot; points; position; possible; present; prince; private; promises; provinces; purpose; question; religion; religious; royal; scheme; schetz; secret; secretary; son; spain; spanish; states; subject; terms; thought; time; tis; treaty; troops; truth; war; william; wish; world; zealand
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        item: #44 of 121
          id: 4828
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 26: 1577, part III
        date: None
       words: 13366
      flesch: 60
     summary: In the meantime, almost exactly at the moment when Don John was executing his enterprise against Namur, Escovedo had taken an affectionate farewell of the estates at Brussels for it had been thought necessary, as already intimated, both for the apparent interests and the secret projects of Don John; that the Secretary should make a visit to Spain. Don John, exclaiming that this was the first day of his government, commanded the castellan to surrender.
    keywords: aerschot; alencon; antwerp; anxious; arms; attempt; august; authority; beggars; blood; bridge; brief; brother; brussels; castle; catholic; celebrated; children; citadel; city; colonels; command; correspondence; country; crown; day; demands; designs; desire; don; don john; doubt; duke; eboli; empress; england; envoys; escovedo; eyes; fair; false; famous; flanders; fortress; france; general; gentlemen; german; ghent; god; gold; good; government; governor; great; hands; head; holland; honor; important; insolence; intrigues; john; king; lalain; late; letter; life; little; long; madrid; majesty; margaret; master; meantime; mercenaries; merchants; moment; money; murder; namur; natural; necessary; netherlands; orange; peace; people; perez; philip; plot; position; possession; possible; prince; princess; purpose; queen; ready; rest; result; return; right; river; royal; secret; secretary; seigneur; seizure; soldiers; spain; states; streets; time; town; treaty; treslong; troops; true; truth; usual; visit; war; way; words; world
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        item: #45 of 121
          id: 4829
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
        date: None
       words: 16778
      flesch: 59
     summary: A small but well- appointed army had been rapidly collecting under the banner of Don John at Luxemburg, Peter Ernest Mansfeld had brought many well-trained troops from France, and Prince Alexander of Parma had arrived with several choice and veteran regiments of Italy and Spain. Philip, being chief of the family, and sovereign of the Netherlands, could not commit the absurdity of giving away his own property to other people, nor would Don John choose to be an instrument in so foolish a transaction.
    keywords: account; aerschot; affairs; alexander; ancient; antwerp; appointment; archduke; army; arrival; articles; authority; brabant; brilliant; brother; brussels; burghers; capital; catholic; cause; cavalry; certain; champagny; charters; chief; citizens; city; come; command; common; condition; confidence; consent; council; country; course; dangerous; day; days; don; don john; doubt; effect; emperor; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; envoy; exercise; fall; favor; flanders; flemish; forth; friends; general; gentlemen; german; ghent; government; governor; great; hand; havre; head; heart; hessels; holland; important; inevitable; infantry; influence; january; john; king; known; leaders; letter; life; like; little; long; majesty; man; marquis; matter; matthias; measure; members; moment; movement; namur; netherlands; new; nobles; officers; open; opinion; orange; order; pacification; parma; party; people; philip; place; policy; popular; power; powerful; presence; present; prince; provinces; queen; religion; religious; rest; result; right; roman; ruward; ryhove; saint; scene; secret; september; session; small; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spanish; states; strong; terms; time; toleration; treaty; troops; union; united; vienna; visit; war; william; words; work; worship; young; zealand
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        item: #46 of 121
          id: 4830
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 28: 1578, part II
        date: None
       words: 13531
      flesch: 60
     summary: Terms offered by Philip--Proclamation of Don John-- Correspondence between de Selles and the States-General--Between the King and the Governor-General--New forces raised by the States--St. Aldegonde at the Diet--Municipal revolution in Amsterdam--The Prince's letter on the subject of the Anabaptists of Middelburg-- The two armies inactive--De la None--Action at Rijnemants--John Casimir--Perverse politics of Queen Elizabeth--Alencon in the Netherlands--Portrait of the Duke--Orange's position in regard to him--Avowed and supposed policy of the French court--Anger of Elizabeth--Terms arranged between Alencon and the Estates--Renewed negotiations with Don John--Severe terms offered him--Interview of the English envoys with the Governor--Despondency of Don John-- Orange's attempts to enforce a religious peace--His isolation in sentiment--The malcontent party--Count John Governor of Gelderland --Proposed form of religious peace--Proclamation to that effect by Orange, in Antwerp--A petition in favor of the Roman Church presented by Champagny and other Catholic nobles to the States-- General--Consequent commotion in Brussels--Champagny and others imprisoned--Indolence and poverty of the two armies--Illness and melancholy of Don John--His letters to Doria, to Mendoza, and to the King--Death of Don John--Suspicions of poison--Pompous burial-- Removal of his body to Spain--Concluding remarks upon his character. By John Lothrop Motley 1855 CHAPTER V. Towns taken by Don John--Wrath excited against the aristocratic party by the recent defeat--Attempts upon Amsterdam--Satisfaction of Amsterdam and its effects--De Selles sent with royal letters from Spain--
    keywords: aldegonde; alencon; alva; amsterdam; antwerp; archduke; arms; army; assistance; august; battle; body; bossu; brother; brussels; casimir; catholic; cause; champagny; character; charles; church; cities; city; command; common; confederates; council; count; country; daily; day; days; death; different; don; don john; duke; effect; elizabeth; enemy; england; envoys; fifth; foot; france; french; friend; gemblours; general; ghent; government; governor; great; hands; head; high; holland; home; important; impossible; john; king; left; letter; little; long; magistrates; majesty; man; matters; matthias; means; meantime; military; moment; money; month; necessary; netherlands; new; nobles; open; orange; pacification; paris; party; peace; petition; philip; places; policy; position; power; previous; prince; provinces; public; purpose; queen; reformation; religion; religious; result; right; royal; saint; short; soldiers; spain; spanish; states; terms; thought; time; troops; truth; victory; walsingham; war; way; william; wish; world; worship; zealand
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        item: #47 of 121
          id: 4831
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 29: 1578, part III
        date: None
       words: 16436
      flesch: 56
     summary: The occasion was skillfully made use of by the agents of the royal party to weaken the allegiance of the province, and of its sister Walloon provinces, to the patriot cause. They were also to defend each other against all foreign or domestic potentates, provinces, or cities, provided such defence were controlled by the generality of the union.
    keywords: accomplished; action; alexander; anjou; antwerp; archduke; arms; army; artois; baron; battle; beard; behalf; better; blood; brother; brussels; capres; casimir; catholic; cause; character; cities; city; civil; command; common; commonwealth; conduct; confederacy; country; court; daily; danger; dangerous; day; days; death; defence; demands; departure; deputies; don; duke; ecclesiastical; elizabeth; england; envoys; eyes; farnese; fate; fatherland; favor; field; florins; foe; foreign; friend; gelderland; general; gentlemen; ghent; god; good; gosson; government; governor; great; hand; head; hessels; high; holland; house; imbize; intention; intrigues; john; king; lalain; large; left; liberal; liberty; life; like; little; long; magistrates; majesty; malcontents; man; martial; matters; matthias; meantime; military; moment; money; montigny; motte; movement; netherlands; new; nobles; occasion; open; opinion; orange; order; pacification; parma; party; peace; people; person; personal; philip; political; position; possible; power; powerful; presence; prince; prior; prisoners; private; provinces; purpose; purse; queen; religion; religious; republic; result; royal; ryhove; saint; sarrasin; secret; service; single; soldiers; sovereign; states; strong; sword; time; treason; treaty; troops; truth; uncle; union; united; usual; utrecht; walloon; war; work; world; worship; years; zealand
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        item: #48 of 121
          id: 4832
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 30: 1579-80
        date: None
       words: 19211
      flesch: 62
     summary: Parma's feint upon Antwerp--He invests Maestricht--Deputation and letters from the states-general, from Brussels, and from Parma, to the Walloon provinces--Active negotiations by Orange and by Farnese --Walloon envoys in Parma's camp before Maestricht--Festivities--The Treaty of Reconciliation--Rejoicings of the royalist party--Comedy enacted at the Paris theatres--Religious tumults in Antwerp, Utrecht, and other cities--Religious Peace enforced by Orange-- Philip Egmont's unsuccessful attempt upon Brussels--Siege of Maestricht--Failure at the Tongres gate--Mining and countermining-- Partial destruction of the Tongres ravelin--Simultaneous attack upon the Tongres and Bolls-le-Duo gates--The Spaniards repulsed with great loss--Gradual encroachments of the besiegers--Bloody contests --The town taken--Horrible massacre--Triumphal entrance and solemn thanksgiving--Calumnious attacks upon Orange--Renewed troubles in Ghent--Imbue and Dathenus--The presence of the Prince solicited-- Coup d'etat of Imbue--Order restored, and Imbue expelled by Orange The political movements in both directions were to be hastened by the military operations of the opening season. Why then was it not competent to other provinces, with equal allegiance to the treaty, to sanction the Reformed religion within their limits? Parma, on his part, publicly invited the states-general, by letter, to sustain the Ghent treaty by accepting the terms offered to the Walloons, and by restoring the system of the Emperor Charles, of very lofty memory.
    keywords: alexander; anjou; antwerp; archduke; armed; army; assembly; attempt; besiegers; bitter; blood; bois; bours; breach; breastwork; brussels; burghers; catholic; cause; character; chief; children; city; cologne; coming; command; conferences; conscience; continued; contrary; country; course; daily; day; days; dead; demilune; departure; deputies; desirable; desire; determined; duc; duke; effect; efforts; egmont; emperor; end; enemy; envoys; father; force; foreign; freedom; friend; garrison; gate; general; ghent; god; good; government; governor; great; half; hand; head; heart; holland; hope; house; imbize; imperial; important; intention; jealousy; john; king; lalain; land; language; left; letter; liberty; life; like; little; long; love; maestricht; magistrates; majesty; man; march; means; meantime; men; meuse; military; moat; moment; months; necessary; negotiation; netherlands; new; number; obstacle; occasion; officers; orange; order; parma; party; peace; people; person; peter; philip; point; political; portion; power; prerogative; presence; prince; promise; provinces; purpose; ravelin; ready; regiment; religion; religious; renneberg; right; roman; royal; saint; save; secret; service; siege; small; soldiers; solemn; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; streets; strong; terms; terranova; thought; time; tis; tongres; town; treason; treaty; troops; truth; usual; vain; walloon; walls; war; way; weary; william; women; work; years
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        item: #49 of 121
          id: 4833
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 31: 1580-82
        date: None
       words: 22820
      flesch: 59
     summary: That such men as Saint Aldegonde and the Prince of Orange should be at fault in their judgment, is evidence not so much of their want of discernment, as of the difference between the general reputation of the Duke at that period, and that which has been eventually established for him in history. Alas, poor Prince!
    keywords: abjuration; advice; affairs; age; aldegonde; alexander; allegiance; ambition; anastro; ancient; anjou; antwerp; appearance; arms; army; arrival; articles; assassin; assembly; assistance; attempt; authority; ban; best; blood; body; brabant; brother; cardinal; catholic; cause; character; charters; chief; cities; city; command; commonwealth; condition; consent; constitution; contrary; count; country; course; crime; crowns; day; days; dead; death; declaration; deed; departure; different; document; doubt; duke; end; exchange; exercise; fact; faith; father; fear; forces; france; free; freedom; french; general; god; gold; government; granvelle; great; groningen; hand; head; heart; hereditary; high; highness; history; hohenlo; holland; hope; house; illustrious; important; impossible; independence; intelligence; john; july; justice; justified; king; language; large; laws; left; letter; liberty; life; like; limited; little; long; longer; lord; magistrates; making; man; marriage; master; means; meantime; memorable; men; military; moment; monarch; money; month; nassau; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; northern; noue; number; oaths; occasion; offer; open; operations; orange; papers; parma; people; period; perpetual; personal; philip; place; point; political; population; power; prince; princess; prisoner; property; provinces; ready; reason; reformed; religion; religious; renneberg; representative; republic; result; right; royal; saint; self; service; set; short; siege; similar; small; son; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; subjects; supreme; time; town; treaty; troops; tyrant; united; venero; violation; war; way; wife; william; world; wound; year; zealand
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        item: #50 of 121
          id: 4834
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 32: 1582-84
        date: None
       words: 22741
      flesch: 59
     summary: A vague uneasiness pervaded the whole population as to the intention of their new master, but nothing was definitely known, for of course there was entire ignorance of the events which were just occurring in other cities. Parma recals the foreign troops--Siege of Oudenarde--Coolness of Alexander--Capture of the city and of Nineve--Inauguration of Anjou at Ghent--Attempt upon his life and that of Orange--Lamoral Egmont's implication in the plot--Parma's unsuccessful attack upon Ghent-- Secret plans of Anjou--Dunkirk, Ostend, and other towns surprised by his adherents--Failure at Bruges--Suspicions at Antwerp--Duplicity of Anjou--The French Fury--Details of that transaction-- Discomfiture and disgrace of the Duke--His subsequent effrontery-- His letters to the magistracy of Antwerp, to, the Estates, and to Orange--Extensive correspondence between Anjou and the, French Court with Orange and the Estates--Difficult position of the Prince--His policy--Remarkable letter to the States-general--Provisional arrangement with Anjou--Marriage of the Archbishop of Cologne-- Marriage of Orange with Louisa de Coligny--Movements in Holland, Brabant, Flanders, and other provinces, to induce the Prince to accept sovereignty over the whole country--His steady refusal-- Treason of Van den Berg in Gueldres--Intrigues of Prince Chimay and Imbize in Flanders--Counter efforts of Orange and the patriot party --Fate of Imbize--Reconciliation of Bruges--Death of Anjou During the course of the year 1582, the military operations on both sides had been languid and desultory, the Prince of Parma, not having a large force at his command, being comparatively inactive.
    keywords: age; alexander; ancient; anjou; antwerp; arms; arrangement; assonleville; attack; attempt; authorities; balthazar; bed; blood; body; brabant; brother; bruges; burghers; camp; catholic; cause; certain; character; chimay; church; cities; citizens; city; close; commonwealth; confidence; correspondence; country; course; court; crime; danger; day; dead; death; defence; delft; design; different; dinner; duke; dunkirk; duty; efforts; egmont; eloquence; enemy; enterprise; eyes; face; father; feeling; flanders; force; france; french; frenchmen; fresh; friends; gate; general; gerard; ghent; god; good; government; governor; great; ground; guard; hand; head; heart; highness; holland; honorable; hope; hour; house; human; imbize; important; inquisition; john; king; known; language; large; left; letters; liberty; life; like; little; long; magistrates; majesty; making; man; master; means; men; moment; monarch; nature; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; number; occasion; officer; open; orange; order; parma; people; person; philip; place; plan; plot; point; policy; political; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; present; prince; private; project; provinces; purpose; recent; reconciliation; religion; religious; republic; rest; result; return; right; royal; said; second; secret; self; service; siege; silent; soldiers; son; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; states; step; streets; sufficient; suspicions; thought; time; town; treacherous; treason; treaty; troops; union; united; usual; van; walloon; way; wife; william; willing; word; years; young
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        item: #51 of 121
          id: 4835
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84)
        date: None
       words: 196934
      flesch: 60
     summary: These fantasies derived additional color from the fact that, while the Queen was expressing the most amicable intentions towards Spain, and the greatest jealousy of France, the English residents at Antwerp and other cities of the Netherlands, had received private instructions to sell out their property as fast as possible, and to retire from the country. He was finally confirmed as Ruward on the 22d of October, to the boundless satisfaction of the people, who celebrated the event by a solemn holiday in Antwerp, Brussels, and other cities.
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castle; catholic; cause; cavalry; celebrated; centre; centuries; century; ceremony; certain; chain; chamber; champagny; chapter; character; characterized; charge; charles; charters; chief; children; christendom; christian; church; churches; circumstances; citadel; cities; citizens; city; civil; claims; clergy; close; cologne; colonel; combat; come; coming; command; commander; commanding; commissioners; common; commonwealth; communication; compact; companies; company; complete; conclusion; condition; conduct; conferences; confidence; confidential; congress; conqueror; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; conspiracy; constitution; contemplated; contest; continued; contrary; control; conversation; correspondence; council; councillor; count john; country; courage; course; court; crime; cross; crown; customary; daily; danger; dangerous; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; death; december; decided; decision; declaration; deed; deep; defence; delft; demands; denounced; departure; deputation; deputies; deserted; design; desirable; desire; desirous; despair; desperate; destruction; determination; determined; devoted; different; difficult; dignity; direction; disposed; disposition; distance; distinguished; distrust; divine; doctor; document; don; don john; door; doubt; duiveland; duke; dutch; duty; early; earnest; earth; ecclesiastical; edict; effect; efforts; egmont; election; elizabeth; eloquence; emperor; empire; end; enemies; enemy; energy; england; english; enormous; enterprise; enthusiasm; entire; entrance; envoys; epoch; equal; escape; escovedo; establishment; europe; events; evil; example; excellent; exchange; excited; execution; executive; exercise; existence; expedition; expense; experience; expressed; expression; extensive; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faith; faithful; fall; false; family; famous; farnese; fast; fatal; fate; father; fatherland; favor; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fidelity; field; fifth; fire; flanders; florins; foe; foes; following; food; foot; force; foreign; formal; forth; fortress; france; francis; freedom; french; fresh; friend; friendship; fruitless; functionaries; functions; furious; fury; future; garrison; gate; gemblours; general; genius; gentlemen; gerard; german; ghent; glory; god; gold; golden; good; government; governor; grand; granvelle; great; greater; groningen; ground; guard; hainault; half; hand; hard; hatred; havre; head; heart; hereditary; heresy; heretic; hero; high; highness; historical; history; hitherto; hohenlo; hold; holland; holy; home; honest; honor; honorable; hope; horrible; hostile; hour; house; human; husband; illustrious; imbize; immediate; imperial; important; inclination; inclined; independent; indignant; indignation; individual; inevitable; infantry; influence; information; informed; inhabitants; inquisition; insolence; instant; instructions; instrument; intelligence; intense; intention; interests; internal; interview; intimate; intrigues; issue; italian; italy; january; jealousy; john; journey; judgment; july; juncture; june; justice; justified; keeping; king; known; labor; lalain; language; large; late; law; laws; lay; leaders; leading; league; leave; left; length; leoninus; lepanto; letter; liberal; liberated; liberties; liberty; lieutenant; life; like; likely; little; lives; living; lofty; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; louvain; love; luxemburg; madrid; maestricht; magistracy; magistrates; main; maintenance; majesty; making; malcontents; man; manner; mansfeld; march; margaret; marquis; marriage; mass; massacre; master; matters; matthias; means; meantime; measure; mechlin; members; memorable; mercenaries; merchants; mercy; meuse; military; mind; minister; moment; monarch; mondragon; money; months; morning; mortal; mother; motives; motley; motte; movement; municipal; murder; mutineers; mutiny; mutual; namur; narrow; nassau; national; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; neck; negotiations; neighbourhood; netherlands; new; news; nobles; november; number; oaths; obedience; object; obliged; obstacle; obvious; occasion; october; offer; officers; open; operations; opinion; opportunity; opposed; opposite; orange; order; outside; pacification; palace; panic; paper; papists; pardon; paris; parma; particular; parties; party; passage; past; patriots; pay; payment; peace; people; perez; perfect; period; permanent; permission; perpetual; persecution; person; personages; personal; peter; philip; pieces; places; plain; plans; plot; point; poison; policy; political; poor; pope; popular; population; portion; position; possession; possible; post; power; powerful; practical; preliminary; prepared; presence; present; pretext; previous; prince; princess; principal; principle; prior; prisoners; private; privileges; probable; proceeded; proceedings; procession; professed; profound; progress; promises; proof; property; proposition; protect; protection; protestant; provinces; provincial; purpose; quarter; queen; question; race; rank; rapid; ready; reality; reason; rebel; rebellion; recent; reconciliation; reduced; reformed; reformers; refuge; regard; regiment; relations; relief; religion; religious; remarkable; remedy; renneberg; reply; repose; representative; republic; requesens; request; resolution; respect; responsibility; rest; result; retired; retreat; return; revolt; right; river; road; roda; roman; rome; room; royal; ruin; ryhove; safe; said; saint; sake; sancho; satisfaction; satisfied; save; saw; scene; schemes; schouwen; sea; second; secret; secretary; secure; security; seigneur; self; sentiments; separate; september; series; servant; service; set; seventeen; share; ships; short; sides; siege; signal; silent; silver; similar; simple; sincere; single; sister; skill; slaves; slow; small; soldiers; solemn; son; sons; soul; sound; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; spirit; splendid; square; stadholder; stand; stately; states; step; stipulated; stone; streets; strength; strict; strong; subject; subsequent; successful; sudden; sufficient; summer; superfluous; superior; support; supremacy; supreme; suspicions; sword; sympathy; system; task; terms; terrible; things; thought; thousands; threatening; throne; time; tis; toleration; torn; town; traitors; tranquillity; transaction; treacherous; treachery; treasure; treaty; troops; true; trust; truth; turkish; tyranny; unable; unfortunate; union; united; universal; unlimited; usual; utmost; utrecht; vague; vain; valor; van; vast; vessels; veterans; victim; victory; views; vigorous; ville; violence; violent; virtue; visit; wages; walloon; walls; war; warning; water; way; weeks; wife; william; willing; wise; wish; wishes; women; words; work; world; worship; worthy; wrath; writing; written; years; young; youth; zealand; zierickzee
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        item: #52 of 121
          id: 4837
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584
        date: None
       words: 22477
      flesch: 57
     summary: Paris was at least by one hundred thousand more populous than any city of Europe, except perhaps the remote and barbarous Moscow, while the secondary cities of France, Rouen in the north, Lyons in the centre, and Marseilles in the south, almost equalled in size, business, wealth, and numbers, the capitals of other countries. Immediately afterwards, the General Assembly of all the States determined to offer the sovereignty to King Henry on conditions to be afterwards settled.
    keywords: absolute; advantage; affairs; age; alencon; ancient; anjou; antwerp; archives; assembly; authority; bartholomew; battle; bearnese; better; body; brabant; brief; brother; catholic; cause; centuries; century; chief; children; christendom; church; cities; city; civil; command; commonwealth; contest; correspondence; council; country; courage; course; court; crown; dark; day; days; death; delft; des; desperate; determination; diplomatic; doubt; duke; dutch; elizabeth; empire; enemy; england; english; envoys; epoch; europe; extensive; eyes; faith; family; fate; father; field; flanders; foreign; france; freedom; french; general; generous; germany; ghent; god; good; government; governor; grandfather; great; guise; half; hand; head; henry; heretics; high; history; holland; hope; house; huguenots; human; iii; important; inhabitants; king; kingdom; known; large; later; law; leading; league; letters; liberty; life; like; little; long; majesty; making; man; master; maurice; means; members; memorable; men; military; modern; moment; monarch; months; mother; murder; nation; national; navarre; necessary; netherlands; new; number; offer; old; open; orange; order; papists; paris; parma; party; peace; people; period; perpetual; philip; point; policy; political; pope; population; portion; position; power; powerful; present; priests; prince; provinces; pruneaux; queen; question; ready; religion; religious; republic; result; return; revolt; right; rome; royal; save; sea; secret; silent; single; sovereignty; spain; spanish; spirit; states; strong; struggle; system; territory; thing; thought; throne; time; treason; true; truth; united; universal; valois; van; view; war; way; william; work; world; years; young; zeeland
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        item: #53 of 121
          id: 4838
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584-85a
        date: None
       words: 22528
      flesch: 59
     summary: The crownless and almost houseless King had thus, at a single interview, and in exchange for nothing but good wishes, granted what the most Christian monarch of France had refused, after months of negotiation, and with sovereignty as the purchase-money. Villeroy replied, by complaining, in his turn, about the dealings of the most Catholic King, with the leaguers and the rebels of France; and Mendoza rejoined by an intimation that harping upon past grievances and suspicions was hardly the way to bring about harmony in present matters.
    keywords: able; account; affairs; ambassador; anxious; assistance; audience; bearnese; bernardino; best; better; brother; burghley; buys; cardinal; catharine; catholic; cause; certain; christendom; christian; christian king; civil; countries; country; course; court; crown; danger; davison; day; deal; death; delay; deputies; des; disposed; dollars; don; doubt; duke; duty; elizabeth; embassy; enemy; england; english; envoy; eyes; faction; favour; feeling; flanders; foot; france; french; french king; general; god; good; government; grave; great; guise; hand; head; heart; henry; heresy; heretics; herle; history; holland; house; iii; important; informed; interview; jealousy; john; king; kingdom; league; leaguers; left; liberty; little; long; lord; majesty; making; man; matter; means; meantime; medici; mendoza; mind; moment; monarch; money; months; mother; mucio; navarre; necessary; necessity; negotiations; netherlands; object; offer; opinion; opportunity; orange; order; paris; parma; party; people; peril; person; philip; place; policy; portugal; possible; power; prince; provinces; pruneaux; public; queen; ready; realm; regard; religious; royal; schemes; secret; seeing; service; short; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; stafford; states; strong; subjects; succour; terms; things; thought; throne; time; tis; treaty; troops; truth; valois; villeroy; walsingham; war; way; william; willing; wise; work; world; zeeland
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        item: #54 of 121
          id: 4839
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585b
        date: None
       words: 17793
      flesch: 63
     summary: The five principal ones Ghent, Dendermonde, Mechlin, Brussels Antwerp, lie narrow circle, at distances from each other varying from five miles to thirty, and are all strung together by the great Netherland river or its tributaries. Unfortunately there were many other boards in session besides that of the Schepens, many other motives at work besides those of patriotism.
    keywords: admiral; aldegonde; alexander; antwerp; armed; arms; army; attempt; authority; bank; better; board; boats; bois; brabant; bridge; broad; brussels; bulwark; burgomaster; butchers; capital; cause; character; chief; christendom; cities; citizens; city; close; college; command; commander; commercial; condition; council; country; day; death; dendermonde; destruction; duc; dyke; easy; enemy; england; enterprise; europe; face; fall; famous; farnese; fatal; feet; flanders; fleets; flemish; force; fort; fortress; france; french; garen; gate; general; genius; ghent; great; half; hand; head; heart; heavy; high; hohenlo; holland; immediate; important; kalloo; king; kowenstyn; large; left; letters; liberty; liefkenshoek; life; like; lille; little; long; lord; magistrates; magnificent; majesty; making; man; marquis; master; means; meantime; measures; men; miles; military; moment; mondragon; money; natural; nature; necessary; negotiation; neighbourhood; netherlands; new; ocean; opposite; orange; order; parma; patriots; philip; place; plan; point; position; possession; possible; present; prince; provinces; republic; right; river; sainte; scene; scheldt; sea; siege; silent; single; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; states; stream; strong; success; teligny; thought; time; town; troops; united; vast; vessels; walls; war; water; week; william; winter; work; year; young; zeeland
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        item: #55 of 121
          id: 4840
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c
        date: None
       words: 16640
      flesch: 66
     summary: The blow struck by the obscure Italian against Antwerp bridge, although ineffective then, was to be most sensibly felt after a few years had passed, upon a wider field. They pursued their victory, and attacked the Palisade Fort. Gamboa, its commandant, was severely wounded; many other officers dead or dying; the outworks were in the hands of the Hollanders; the slender piles on which the fortress rested in the water were rudely shaken; the victory was almost complete.
    keywords: action; admiral; aldegonde; alexander; antwerp; antwerpers; aquila; army; assault; attack; attempt; battle; best; better; blow; boats; bread; bridge; brief; broken; cannon; capizucca; cause; certain; citizens; city; close; command; count; courage; danger; darkness; day; days; dead; death; despair; dyke; earth; effect; end; enemy; enterprise; entrenchments; expected; expedition; explosion; face; fall; famous; fatal; fell; field; fire; fleet; foot; force; fort; fortune; general; george; gianibelli; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; high; history; hohenlo; holland; hollanders; hope; hour; house; human; important; instant; iron; italian; kowenstyn; large; liefkenshoek; life; like; lillo; little; long; loss; majesty; making; man; mansfeld; moment; months; necessary; neighbourhood; night; officer; opinion; ostend; palisade; parma; party; patriots; philip; portion; position; possible; prince; raft; rank; rebels; rest; result; retreat; richebourg; river; royalists; saint; scheldt; sea; secure; ships; sides; siege; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; stabroek; strong; successful; sword; time; triumph; troops; truth; vessels; victory; war; water; way; work; zeeland; zeelanders
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        item: #56 of 121
          id: 4841
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585d
        date: None
       words: 17871
      flesch: 57
     summary: Here is some working underhand, said he to Walsingham, to draw hither Sainte Aldegonde, under a pretext of his justification, which--as it has hitherto been denied him--so is the sequel suspected, if he should obtain it before they were well settled here, betwixt her Majesty and them, considering the manifold presumptions that the subject of his journey should be little profitable or advantageous to the state of these poor countries, as tending, at the best, to the propounding of some general reconcilement. D.W.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce--1609 By John Lothrop Motley MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Volume 41 History United Netherlands, v41, 1584 CHAPTER V., Part 3. Sainte Aldegonde discouraged--His Critical Position--His Negotiations with the Enemy--Correspondence with Richardot-- Commotion in the City--Interview of Marnix with Parma--Suspicious Conduct of Marnix--Deputation to the Prince--Oration of Marnix-- Private Views of Parma--Capitulation of Antwerp--Mistakes of Marnix --Philip on the Religious Question--Triumphal Entrance of Alexander-- Rebuilding of the Citadel--Gratification of Philip--Note on Sainte Aldegonde Sainte Aldegonde's position had become a painful one.
    keywords: = =; accord; affairs; aldegonde; alexander; antwerp; arms; arrival; articles; believe; best; bridge; broad; burghers; burgomaster; calumny; capitulation; cause; certain; character; circumstances; citadel; citizens; city; coming; concession; conduct; conscience; council; country; davison; days; defence; demonstrations; deputies; desire; doubt; efforts; end; england; english; foreign; garrison; general; good; government; great; hands; hath; heretics; highness; holland; honour; hope; house; interview; judgment; june; king; known; leicester; letter; liberty; life; little; long; lord; magistrates; majesty; man; marnix; matter; means; men; necessary; necessity; negotiation; netherlands; number; obedience; object; opinion; order; parma; peace; people; period; personage; persons; philip; point; policy; possibility; possible; power; present; prince; private; provinces; public; queen; reason; reconciliation; reduction; regard; religion; religious; rest; result; return; richardot; sainte; sainte aldegonde; secret; service; set; sir; soldiers; spain; spanish; states; terms; thing; thought; time; town; united; walsingham; war; way; willing; work; world; years; zeeland
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        item: #57 of 121
          id: 4842
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585e
        date: None
       words: 16269
      flesch: 60
     summary: I consider it a great honour, that from the commencement, you have ever been so faithful to me, and that with such great constancy you have preferred me to all other princes, and have chosen me for your Queen. Queen Elizabeth was however resolutely averse from assuming that sovereignty which she was not unwilling to see offered for her acceptance; and her accredited envoy at the Hague, besides other more secret agents, were as busily employed in the spring of 1585--as Des Pruneaux had been the previous winter on the part of France--to bring about an application, by solemn embassy, for her assistance.
    keywords: affairs; ancient; antwerp; assistance; authority; barneveld; best; better; burghley; cause; certain; character; cities; commissioners; commonwealth; condition; confidence; contrary; council; countries; country; davison; day; deal; death; deputies; determined; difficult; earl; earth; elizabeth; enemies; enemy; england; english; envoys; expense; falck; flushing; foot; force; france; french; general; gentlemen; gilpin; god; good; government; great; gryze; hands; hard; head; henry; high; history; holland; home; hope; horse; iii; important; intelligent; interview; john; king; language; large; leicester; letters; life; like; london; long; lord; majesty; man; matter; menin; millions; moment; money; necessary; necessity; negotiation; netherlands; new; offer; olden; order; ortel; party; paul; people; period; perpetual; philip; place; policy; possible; power; present; princes; protection; provinces; purpose; queen; reason; regard; religion; republic; rome; security; sentiments; sides; sir; sovereignty; spain; spanish; states; strong; subjects; sufficient; thought; time; town; treaty; true; walsingham; war; way; william; women; work; world; year; zeeland
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        item: #58 of 121
          id: 4843
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585f
        date: None
       words: 11577
      flesch: 63
     summary: When the memorable marriage-project of Queen Elizabeth with Anjou seemed about to take effect, he denounced the scheme in a most spirited and candid letter, addressed to her Majesty; nor is it recorded that the Queen was offended with his frankness. Philip II., William of Orange, Queen Elizabeth, Alexander Farnese, Robert Dudley, never dreamed--when disclosing their inmost thoughts to their trusted friends at momentous epochs--that the day would come on earth when those secrets would be no longer hid from the patient enquirer after truth.
    keywords: affairs; affection; age; ancient; antwerp; appointment; authority; beginning; best; brother; cause; charge; coming; countries; country; davison; day; days; deal; death; determined; doth; duty; earl; elizabeth; england; english; enterprise; envoy; fall; father; favour; flushing; force; general; gentleman; god; good; government; great; greatest; hand; hard; hath; history; hold; holland; home; honour; hope; house; john; language; leicester; letter; life; little; long; lord; lordship; majesty; man; matter; maurice; means; men; moment; money; necessary; necessity; netherlands; norris; offended; orange; parma; parsimony; party; people; period; philip; place; poor; pounds; prince; provinces; quality; queen; reason; regard; reputation; secretary; service; sidney; sir; soldiers; sovereign; spain; states; subjects; time; towns; treaty; walsingham; war; way; william; world
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        item: #59 of 121
          id: 4844
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585e-86a
        date: None
       words: 24406
      flesch: 62
     summary: The members of the States dare not but be Queen Elizabeth's, continued the Earl, for by the living God! There was one Poley, a trusted servant of Lady Sidney, then living in the house of her father Walsingham, during Sir Philip's absence, who was in close communication with Lord Montjoy's brother, Blount, then high in favour of Queen Elizabeth--whose grandmother she might be for his age and hers --and with another brother Christopher Blount, at that moment in confidential attendance upon Lord Leicester in Holland.
    keywords: able; absolute; acceptance; action; affection; ambassador; ancient; anxious; arrival; authority; best; better; blood; brother; burghley; cause; certain; character; charge; chief; commander; commandment; committee; condition; contempt; contrary; council; counsellors; countries; country; course; court; danger; davison; day; days; death; defence; delay; disgrace; disposition; doubt; dudley; earl; elizabeth; england; english; enterprise; envoy; excellency; fall; family; father; favour; favourite; forces; francis; french; friends; furnished; general; god; good; government; governor; great; hague; hand; hath; hatton; head; heart; heneage; henry; highness; history; holland; hollanders; honest; honour; hope; house; important; information; instructions; invasion; january; john; king; known; leave; leicester; leoninus; letters; lieutenant; life; like; likely; little; london; long; lord; lordship; love; majesty; man; manner; matter; maurice; means; meantime; members; military; mission; moment; nassau; nature; necessary; netherlands; new; offer; office; opinion; order; parma; people; person; personages; philip; place; poor; position; possible; power; present; prince; private; proposition; provinces; queen; regard; request; respect; royal; said; sea; secret; secretary; self; service; set; shirley; sidney; silent; sir; soldiers; sort; spain; states; strange; strong; subject; sure; thing; thomas; thought; time; title; towns; troops; true; truth; united; walsingham; war; way; wilford; william; wise; wish; woman; work; world; wrath; year; young; zeeland
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        item: #60 of 121
          id: 4845
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586b
        date: None
       words: 15245
      flesch: 65
     summary: We thought best, said Leicester, Heneage, Clerk, and Killigrew--In according to her Majesty's secret instructions--to take that course which might least endanger the weak estate of the Provinces--that is to say, to utter so much in words as we hoped might satisfy her excellent Majesty's expectation, and yet leave them nothing in writing to confirm that which was secretly spread in many places to the hindrance of the good course of settling these affairs. If these men once smell any such matter, wrote Leicester to Burghley, be you sure they will soon come before you, to the utter overthrow of her Majesty and state for ever.
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        item: #61 of 121
          id: 4846
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c
        date: None
       words: 14734
      flesch: 60
     summary: Alexander Farnese and his heroic little army had been left by their sovereign in as destitute a condition as that in which Lord Leicester and his unfortunate paddy persons had found themselves since their arrival in the Netherlands. It has been intimated to me, he said, that if I would send a properly qualified person, who should declare that your Majesty had not absolutely forbidden the coming of Lord Leicester, such an agent would be well received, and perhaps the Earl would be recalled.
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        item: #62 of 121
          id: 4847
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86)
        date: None
       words: 179690
      flesch: 61
     summary: It must be confessed, however, that the shuffling and paltering among great men and little men, at that period, forms a somewhat painful subject of contemplation at the present day. Meantime there was an active but very secret correspondence between Lord Cobham, Lord Burghley, Sir James Croft, and various subordinate personages in England, on the one side, and Champagny, President Richardot, La Motte, governor of Gravelines, Andrea de Loo, Grafigni, and other men in the obedient Provinces, more or less in Alexander's confidence, on the other side.
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        item: #63 of 121
          id: 4848
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1586c
        date: None
       words: 18185
      flesch: 65
     summary: Then great Leicester himself, most princelike in the robes of his order, guarded by a troop of burghers, and by his own fifty halberd-men in scarlet cloaks trimmed with white and purple velvet, pranced gorgeously by. Other soldiers, more sophisticated as to apparel, were less at their ease.
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        item: #64 of 121
          id: 4849
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1586d
        date: None
       words: 10989
      flesch: 64
     summary: Upon the great subject of the sovereignty, therefore, she was unable to adopt the resolution so much desired by Leicester and by the people of the Provinces; but she answered the Earl's communications concerning Maurice and Hohenlo, Sir John Norris and the treasurer, in characteristic but affectionate language. D.W.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce--1609 By John Lothrop Motley MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Vol. 49 History of the United Netherlands, 1586 CHAPTER X. Should Elizabeth accept the Sovereignty?--The Effects of her Anger-- Quarrels between the Earl and the Staten--The Earl's three Counsellors--Leicester's Finance--Chamber--Discontent of the Mercantile Classes--Paul Buys and the Opposition--Been Insight of Paul Buys--Truchsess becomes a Spy upon him--Intrigues of Buys with Denmark--His Imprisonment--The Earl's Unpopularity--His Quarrels with the States--And with the Norrises--His Counsellors Wilkes and Clerke--Letter from the Queen to Leicester--A Supper Party at Hohenlo's--A drunken Quarrel--Hohenlo's Assault upon Edward Norris-- Ill Effects of the Riot.
    keywords: absolute; army; better; brother; buys; captain; cause; chief; confidence; count; country; course; denmark; difficult; drink; earl; edward; elizabeth; enemy; england; english; essex; father; florins; general; glass; god; good; government; governor; great; hands; hath; having; head; hohenlo; holland; hollock; important; john; king; language; leicester; little; long; lord; majesty; man; marshal; master; maurice; men; military; mind; moment; money; negotiations; netherlands; norris; office; old; papists; party; paul; peace; pelham; people; philip; pledge; position; pounds; prince; provinces; quarrel; queen; reingault; religion; religious; rest; secret; service; sidney; sir; soldiers; sovereignty; spain; states; subject; table; terms; thomas; time; walsingham; wilkes; william; wise; year; young
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        item: #65 of 121
          id: 4850
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1586e
        date: None
       words: 10551
      flesch: 55
     summary: In England too, the seeds of liberty, wrapped up in Calvinism and hoarded through many trying years, were at last destined to float over land and sea, and to bear large harvests of temperate freedom for great commonwealths, which were still unborn. Wilkes, who was of course present, having now succeeded Killigrew as one of the two English members, observed that the States and council used but slender entreaty to his Excellency for his stay and countenance there among them, whereat his Excellency and we that were of the council for her Majesty did not a little marvel.
    keywords: absence; action; administration; affairs; age; authority; barneveld; buys; cause; century; chief; cities; commonwealth; council; country; course; dangerous; day; deputies; despotism; doubt; drake; dutch; earl; elizabeth; enemy; england; english; epoch; extreme; eyes; famous; florins; francis; freedom; general; government; governor; great; half; hands; head; high; history; holland; important; impossible; individuals; inhabitants; john; king; large; leicester; leicestrians; liberty; life; little; long; majesty; man; men; moment; necessary; netherlands; new; obedient; occasion; opposed; papists; party; peace; people; philip; policy; political; popular; ports; pounds; previous; prices; provinces; provincial; queen; religion; republic; result; rigid; sea; secret; ships; sir; small; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; states; statesmen; step; sterling; sudden; thought; time; true; united; utrecht; value; voyage; walsingham; war; wheat; world; worth; year; zeeland
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        item: #66 of 121
          id: 4851
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1587a
        date: None
       words: 15928
      flesch: 61
     summary: Taking Sir William Stanley and the greater part of his regiment with him, he caused them, day by day, to steal into the town, in small parties of ten and fifteen. Then there was a knocking at the door, and Sir William Stanley entered, having left a strong guard of soldiers at the entrance to the hall.
    keywords: absence; answer; authority; barneveld; best; better; brave; brother; captain; cartel; catholic; cause; character; chief; city; colonel; command; commission; council; councillor; count; countries; country; danger; dangerous; day; days; departure; desire; deventer; doth; doubt; duke; dutch; duty; earl; edward; elizabeth; enemy; england; english; englishman; evil; excellency; field; fort; friends; general; god; good; government; governor; great; hands; hath; head; hohenlo; holland; hollock; honest; honour; house; important; irish; john; keys; language; leave; leicester; life; like; little; long; lord; lordship; love; magistrates; majesty; man; marshal; matter; maurice; meantime; mind; moeurs; moment; money; months; nation; netherlands; norris; order; otheman; parma; party; pay; pelham; philip; place; pounds; princess; promise; provinces; queen; religion; republic; return; roland; said; secretary; service; sidney; sir; sir john; sir william; soldiers; spain; spanish; speeches; stanley; states; tassis; things; thought; time; town; treason; troops; true; truth; utrecht; walsingham; way; wilkes; william; year; york; zutphen
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        item: #67 of 121
          id: 4852
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1587b
        date: None
       words: 22748
      flesch: 60
     summary: It was absurd, they said, that Mr. Wilkes and Lord Leicester should affect to confound the persons who appeared in the assembly with the States themselves; as if those individuals claimed or exercised sovereignty. To spend the time, said he, in private brabbles and piques between the States and Lord Leicester, when we ought to prepare an army against the enemy, and to repair the shaken and torn state, is not a good course for her Majesty's service.
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        item: #68 of 121
          id: 4853
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1587c
        date: None
       words: 7708
      flesch: 63
     summary: [True it is, and I avow it on my faith, her Majesty did send a ship expressly before he went to Cadiz with a message by letters charging Sir Francis Drake not to show any act of hostility, which messenger by contrary winds could never come to the place where he was, but was constrained to come home, and hearing of Sir F. Drake's actions, her Majesty commanded the party that returned to have been punished, but that he acquitted himself by the oaths of himself and all his company. There was also a detached citadel of great strength, looking towards the sea, and there was a ravelin, called St. Anne's, looking in the direction of Bruges.
    keywords: alexander; boats; bridge; buckhurst; burghers; captain; city; country; danger; day; days; drake; duke; duty; earl; elizabeth; enemy; england; english; expedition; famous; farnese; fight; fleet; flushing; force; fort; francis; garrison; general; god; government; governor; great; hand; harbour; help; hohenlo; holland; horse; important; kadzand; known; leicester; little; long; majesty; maurice; men; moment; necessary; netherlands; parma; philip; place; possession; queen; roger; royal; sea; siege; sir; sluys; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; succour; time; town; trenches; troops; vessels; war; way; welshman; wilkes; williams; work; world
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        item: #69 of 121
          id: 4854
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
        date: None
       words: 21422
      flesch: 62
     summary: At the same time he implored the statesmen at home to be wary in selecting the wisest persons for that arduous duty, in order that the peace might be made for Queen Elizabeth, as well as for King Philip. Once landed there, continued the King, I am persuaded that you will give me a good account of yourself, and, with the help of our Lord, that you will do that service which I desire to render to Him, and that He will guide our cause, which is His own, and of such great importance to His Church.
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        item: #70 of 121
          id: 4855
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1588a
        date: None
       words: 18463
      flesch: 58
     summary: On the other hand, if the Duke disavowed those infamous documents, he was to be requested to punish the printers, and have the books burned by the hangman? Dr. Dale, although suffering from cholic, was obliged to set forth, at once upon what he felt would be a bootless journey. It is quite true, replied Dr. Dale, that her excellent Majesty the Queen--filled with compassion for your condition, and having been informed that the Duke of Parma is desirous of peace--has vouchsafed to make this overture.
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        item: #71 of 121
          id: 4856
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1588b
        date: None
       words: 16436
      flesch: 64
     summary: He assured him of her Majesty's affection for them, complained of the factious proceedings of the States, and alluded to the unfavourable state of the weather, as a reason why--near four months long--they had not received the comfort out of England which they had a right to expect. It was unfortunate that they were overruled by Queen Elizabeth and Burghley, who still clung to that delusion; it was still more disastrous that the intrigues of Leicester had done so much to paralyze the republic; it was almost fatal that his departure, without laying down his authority, had given the signal for civil war.
    keywords: action; admiral; advice; affairs; ambassador; answer; anxious; armada; armed; army; assured; authority; balafre; barneveld; barricades; best; better; buys; captain; cause; chief; churches; city; coast; condition; council; country; course; dangerous; day; days; deep; deputies; destruction; duke; elizabeth; end; enemy; england; english; envoys; exercise; eyes; face; farnese; father; fire; fleet; france; friends; general; god; good; government; great; guise; hand; head; henry; history; holland; hollanders; holy; honour; howard; july; king; kingdom; league; leicester; leicestrians; life; like; little; long; longer; lord; majesty; man; master; matters; maurice; memorial; men; moment; month; mucio; nassau; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; opinion; order; ostend; paris; parma; party; peace; people; philip; poor; populace; position; possible; power; prince; private; provinces; queen; ready; rebellion; religion; religious; republic; resignation; royal; ships; sir; soldiers; sonoy; spain; spanish; spring; squadron; stafford; states; subject; sword; time; tons; troops; truth; vessels; walsingham; want; war; willoughby; winter; work; world; years; young; zeeland
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        item: #72 of 121
          id: 4857
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1588c
        date: None
       words: 7991
      flesch: 62
     summary: Oquendo's men, however, were ultimately saved, and taken to other ships. On Monday, 1st of August, Medina Sidonia placed the rear-guard-consisting of the galeasses, the galleons St. Matthew, St. Luke, St. James, and the Florence and other ships, forty-three in all--under command of Don Antonio de Leyva.
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        item: #73 of 121
          id: 4858
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1588d
        date: None
       words: 17274
      flesch: 64
     summary: He now learned that the Armada had taken captive four Dutch men-of-war and many English ships; that, after the Spaniards had been followed from Calais roads by the enemy's fleet, there had been an action, which the English had attempted in vain to avoid; off Newcastle; that Medina Sidonia had charged upon them so vigorously, as to sink twenty of their ships, and to capture twenty-six others, good and sound; that the others, to escape perdition, had fled, after suffering great damage, and had then gone to pieces, all hands perishing; that the Armada had taken a port in Scotland, where it was very comfortably established; that the flag-ship of Lord-admiral Howard, of Drake; and of that distinguished mariner Hawkins, had all been sunk in action, and that no soul had been saved except Drake, who had escaped in a cock-boat. I hear that the Armada has sunk and captured many English ships, and is refitting in a Scotch pert.
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        item: #74 of 121
          id: 4859
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1588-89
        date: None
       words: 8424
      flesch: 55
     summary: This was the end of Sir Martin Schenk of Niddegem, knight, colonel, and brigand; save that ultimately his dissevered limbs were packed in a chest, and kept in a church tower, until Maurice of Nassau, in course of time becoming master of Nymegen, honoured the valiant and on the whole faithful freebooter with a Christian and military burial. The siege was not going on with the good fortune which had usually attended the Spanish leaguer. of Dutch cities, while, on the 29th September, a personal incident came to increase Alexander's dissatisfaction and melancholy.
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        item: #75 of 121
          id: 4860
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete
        date: None
       words: 175872
      flesch: 61
     summary: Then great Leicester himself, most princelike in the robes of his order, guarded by a troop of burghers, and by his own fifty halberd-men in scarlet cloaks trimmed with white and purple velvet, pranced gorgeously by. He was hard pressed for a time, but was gallantly supported by the Nonpareil, Captain Tanner; and after a long and confused combat, in which the St. Mark, the St. Luke, the St. Matthew, the St. Philip, the St. John, the St. James, the St. John Baptist, the St. Martin, and many other great galleons, with saintly and apostolic names, fought pellmell with the Lion, the Bear, the Bull, the Tiger, the Dreadnought, the Revenge, the Victory, the Triumph, and other of the more profanely-baptized English ships, the Spaniards were again baffled in all their attempts to close with, and to board, their ever-attacking, ever-flying adversaries.
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        item: #76 of 121
          id: 4861
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1590a
        date: None
       words: 12943
      flesch: 58
     summary: Almost as much might be said of Middelburg, Enkhuyzen, Horn, and many other cities. Accordingly, early in the year 1590, Alexander concentrated a considerable force on the French frontier in Artois and Hainault, apparently threatening Bergen-op-Zoom and other cities in South Holland, but in reality preparing to invade France.
    keywords: affairs; army; attempt; authority; barneveld; best; better; blood; board; boatman; body; breda; burgher; captain; castle; cause; century; certain; cities; city; civil; commonwealth; condition; council; country; days; death; departure; duke; dutch; earth; empire; enemy; england; english; enterprise; europe; field; force; foreign; fortress; france; freedom; french; garrison; general; german; government; governor; great; guard; half; heraugiere; history; hollanders; holy; house; human; important; impossible; independence; influence; italian; king; lanzavecchia; large; laws; liberty; life; little; long; majesty; man; maurice; members; men; military; moment; narrow; nassau; nations; necessary; netherlands; neutral; new; night; number; obedient; ocean; olden; order; parma; party; people; period; philip; place; political; population; portion; position; power; prince; provinces; provincial; quarter; religion; republic; sea; short; silent; skipper; slavery; soil; soldier; sovereignty; spain; spanish; states; statesman; strong; struggle; success; time; town; troops; true; turf; tyranny; united; united provinces; universal; van; vessel; war; water; way; william; wisdom; work; world; years; young
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        item: #77 of 121
          id: 4862
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1590b
        date: None
       words: 17058
      flesch: 62
     summary: Mayenne, in the course of long interviews with the Duke of Parma at Conde and Brussels, had expressed his desire to see Philip king of France, and had promised his best efforts to bring about such a result. At a very early hour next morning he heard a shout under his window, and looking down beheld King Henry at the head of his troops, cheerfully calling out to his English friend as he passed his door.
    keywords: age; alexander; allies; arms; army; authority; battalia; battle; bearnese; best; biron; blood; camp; capital; cardinal; catholic; cause; cavalry; charge; chief; children; church; city; combat; condition; confederacy; conflict; corbeil; country; course; daily; day; days; dead; death; determined; different; duke; early; egmont; end; enemy; england; english; eyes; face; famous; farnese; field; food; foot; force; foreign; france; french; gaetano; general; gentlemen; german; good; great; half; hand; head; henry; heretic; history; holy; hope; horse; huguenot; human; impossible; infantry; italy; ivry; king; kingdom; lagny; large; league; leaguers; left; legate; life; little; lives; long; longer; march; marne; marshal; master; mayenne; men; moment; money; montpensier; mother; national; nationality; navarre; necessity; nemours; netherlands; nobles; order; paris; parisians; parma; people; person; philip; place; pope; populace; portion; position; power; priests; prince; provinces; ready; regiments; religion; result; riders; right; river; rome; royal; seine; short; siege; sixtus; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spanish; stafford; starving; streets; summer; time; triumph; troopers; troops; vain; victory; work; world; year
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        item: #78 of 121
          id: 4863
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1590-92
        date: None
       words: 20690
      flesch: 61
     summary: But although the machinery of war varies so steadily from age to age that a commonplace commander of to-day, rich in the spoils of preceding time, might vanquish the Alexanders, and Caesars, and Frederics, with their antiquated enginery, yet the moral stuff out of which great captains, great armies, great victories are created, is the simple material it was in the days of Sesostris or Cyrus. On the day before he had made a sally from the four gates of the city, had fallen upon the besiegers in great force, had wounded Biron and killed six hundred of his soldiers, had spiked several pieces of artillery and captured others which he had successfully brought into the town, and had in short so damaged the enemy's works and disconcerted him in all his plans, that he was confident of holding the place longer than the king could afford to stay in front of him.
    keywords: advance; age; alexander; army; artillery; assault; assistance; attack; battle; bearnese; beginning; berg; best; better; body; breach; bridge; brittany; broken; campaign; capital; captain; caudebec; cause; cavalry; chief; cities; city; close; commander; commonwealth; companies; company; considerable; council; count; country; course; danger; day; days; death; den; determined; deventer; doubt; duke; elizabeth; end; enemy; england; english; envoy; eye; eyes; famous; farnese; field; fighting; foot; force; foreign; fort; france; french; garrison; gelderland; general; good; government; great; greater; groningen; ground; hand; hard; head; heart; henry; history; holland; holy; horse; human; important; impossible; infantry; italian; july; king; kingdom; knodsenburg; large; league; leaguers; lewis; life; little; long; longer; majesty; making; march; master; maurice; mayenne; means; men; military; moment; money; month; national; necessary; netherlands; news; normandy; nymegen; occasion; open; operations; order; paris; parma; party; past; people; period; perpetual; person; philip; pieces; place; plans; portion; position; power; prince; prince maurice; provinces; queen; ranuccio; regular; relief; republic; right; river; rouen; science; seine; service; set; shot; siege; sir; sixteen; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; stadholder; states; strong; surrender; sword; system; time; town; troops; united; usual; verdugo; waal; war; way; william; work; year; young; zutphen
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        item: #79 of 121
          id: 4864
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1592
        date: None
       words: 7632
      flesch: 58
     summary: Return of Prince Maurice to the siege of Steenwyck--Capitulation of the besieged--Effects of the introduction of mining operations-- Maurice besieges Coeworden--Verdugo attempts to relieve the city, but fails--The city capitulates, and Prince Maurice retreats into winter quarters. Meantime Maurice, inspecting the effects of the explosion and preparing for the assault, had been shot through the left cheek.
    keywords: admiral; army; assault; berg; besieged; best; brittany; camp; caron; case; city; coeworden; companies; complaints; council; count; country; day; days; dutch; elizabeth; empire; enemy; england; english; envoy; foot; force; france; french; friesland; garrison; general; good; governor; great; groningen; hand; hollanders; important; impossible; justice; king; lewis; little; long; lord; majesty; maurice; meantime; men; military; netherlands; number; order; people; philip; place; prince; queen; republic; rest; siege; soldiers; spain; spaniards; special; states; strong; subject; terms; time; town; treasurer; troops; van; verdugo; war; william; world; wounded; year; young
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        item: #80 of 121
          id: 4865
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94
        date: None
       words: 23135
      flesch: 60
     summary: Could the light of truth ever pierce the atmosphere in which such men have their being; could the sad music of humanity ever penetrate to their ears; could visions of a world--on this earth or beyond it--not exclusively the property of kings and high-priests be revealed to them, one might lament that one so eminent among the sons of women had not been a great man. This was logical reasoning enough for kings and their counsellors.
    keywords: accomplished; account; affairs; age; alexander; archbishop; archduke; army; assembly; assistance; authority; bearne; bearnese; best; better; blood; bulls; cardinal; case; castle; catholic; certain; champagny; character; chief; christendom; church; city; commander; condition; confidence; consecration; conversion; council; country; course; crown; daughter; day; dead; death; desire; difficulties; doubt; duke; earth; efforts; election; england; envoy; ernest; faith; family; famous; farnese; father; favour; fellow; feria; field; force; france; french; future; game; general; god; good; governor; great; guise; hands; hard; head; heart; henry; heretic; high; history; holy; house; huguenots; human; idea; individual; infanta; instructions; italian; king; kingdom; league; leaguers; left; legate; life; like; likely; little; long; majesty; making; man; manner; mansfeld; marquis; master; matters; mayenne; means; meantime; men; military; mind; moment; monarch; money; moreo; mortal; motive; necessary; nephew; netherlands; new; nobles; object; old; opinion; order; paris; parma; party; past; people; philip; place; point; political; politicians; pope; possible; power; prince; private; property; provinces; public; queen; ready; regard; religion; religious; reputation; rest; right; roman; rome; royal; said; schemes; secret; service; soldier; son; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; subject; support; tassis; things; throne; time; true; truth; usual; vain; vast; war; way; white; wish; work; world; ybarra; years; young
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        item: #81 of 121
          id: 4866
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1594
        date: None
       words: 19377
      flesch: 57
     summary: Prince Maurice lays siege to Gertruydenberg--Advantages of the new system of warfare--Progress of the besieging operations--Superiority of Maurice's manoeuvres--Adventure of Count Philip of Nassau-- Capitulation of Gertruydenberg--Mutiny among the Spanish troops-- Attempt of Verdugo to retake Coeworden--Suspicions of treason in the English garrison at Ostend--Letter of Queen Elizabeth to Sir Edward Norris on the subject--Second attempt on Coeworden--Assault on Groningen by Maurice--Second adventure of Philip of Nassau--Narrow escape of Prince Maurice--Surrender of Groningen--Particulars of the siege--Question of religious toleration--Progress of the United Netherlands--Condition of the obedient Netherlands--Incompetency of Peter Mansfeld as Governor--Archduke Ernest, the successor of Farnese--Difficulties of his position--His unpopularity--Great achievements of the republicans--Triumphal entry of Ernest into Brussels and Antwerp--Magnificence of the spectacle--Disaffection of the Spanish troops--Great military rebellion--Philip's proposal to destroy the English fleet--His assassination plans--Plot to poison Queen Elizabeth--Conspiracies against Prince Maurice--Futile attempts at negotiation--Proposal of a marriage between Henry and the Infanta--Secret mission from Henry to the King of Spain--Special dispatch to England and the Staten--Henry obtains further aid from Queen Elizabeth and the States--Council--Anxiety of the Protestant countries to bring about a war with Spain--Aspect of affairs at the close of the year 1594. Visitors from the neighbourhood, from other provinces, from foreign countries, came to witness the extraordinary spectacle, and foreign generals repaired to the camp of Maurice to take practical lessons in the new art of war.
    keywords: agent; alliance; ancient; antwerp; archduke; arms; army; artillery; assassination; assault; attempt; authority; baptist; besieging; best; brief; brother; brussels; business; camp; capital; captains; cause; certain; charles; chief; church; cities; city; civil; close; coeworden; commander; condition; considerable; council; count; country; course; crowns; day; days; death; dutch; early; elizabeth; emperor; empire; enemy; england; english; envoy; ernest; europe; eyes; famous; farnese; ferrara; force; foreign; fort; france; french; fuentes; garrison; general; genius; germany; gertruydenberg; good; government; governor; great; groningen; half; hand; head; heart; henry; highness; history; hohenlo; honour; horse; important; infanta; john; july; king; law; league; lewis; liberty; life; lines; little; long; lopez; majesty; making; man; mansfeld; marriage; master; maurice; meantime; men; mendoza; military; moment; money; murder; mutiny; nassau; nearer; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; obedient; occasion; open; operations; order; ostend; person; peter; philip; place; poison; position; possible; prince; prince maurice; projects; provinces; queen; ravelin; religion; religious; republic; result; royal; said; science; secret; service; shot; siege; sir; soldiers; spain; spaniard; spanish; states; surrender; system; terms; thought; time; town; troops; true; union; united; varenne; verdugo; walls; war; william; work; world; ybarra; year; young
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        item: #82 of 121
          id: 4867
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1595
        date: None
       words: 11942
      flesch: 62
     summary: An effort was made, during the last illness of Ernest, to procure from him the appointment of the elector of Cologne as temporary successor to tho government, but Count Fuentes was on the spot and was a man of action. He was informed that a French garrison could not be depended upon for securing the fortress, but that town and citadel must both be placed in Spanish hands.
    keywords: admiral; age; ancient; antwerp; appointment; arenberg; army; arschot; artillery; balagny; battle; blood; bouillon; brother; brussels; cambray; camp; campaign; campaigning; castle; cause; cavalry; chief; citadel; city; commander; companies; considerable; council; count; country; crowns; d'orville; days; death; declaration; disposed; distinguished; dourlens; duke; enemy; ernest; famous; father; field; florins; force; fortress; france; french; fuentes; garrison; general; gomeron; good; governor; great; half; ham; hands; head; henry; history; horse; infantry; king; law; lewis; life; lippe; little; long; making; man; maurice; meantime; men; military; mondragon; money; motte; nassau; neighbourhood; netherlands; new; obedient; operations; past; philip; place; prince; princess; provinces; quarters; ready; rhine; river; september; service; siege; soldier; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; successful; surrender; sword; time; town; troops; united; veteran; villars; war; wife; william; winter; work; year; young
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        item: #83 of 121
          id: 4868
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1595-96
        date: None
       words: 24237
      flesch: 56
     summary: In other words, he chose that his destined son-in-law, the Cardinal Albert, should supersede them, and he was anxious to have him appointed as soon as possible King of the Romans. Philip William had come by way of Rome, where he had been allowed to kiss the pope's feet and had received many demonstrations of favour, and it was fondly thought that he would now prove an instrument with which king and pontiff might pipe back the rebellious republic to its ancient allegiance.
    keywords: account; admiral; advantage; affairs; affection; age; ages; albert; alliance; allies; ambassador; ancient; archduke; armada; army; assistance; attack; battle; bear; best; better; blood; bouillon; boulogne; brother; burghley; cadiz; calais; calvaert; campaign; cardinal; case; catholic; chief; christendom; church; citadel; cities; city; coast; command; commander; conditions; considerable; contrary; country; course; danger; day; days; death; desirable; desire; destruction; difficult; disposed; duke; dutch; earl; effect; elizabeth; emperor; empire; end; enemy; england; english; envoy; essex; europe; expedition; faithful; family; far; fate; father; favour; field; fighting; fleet; florins; force; france; french; garrison; general; germany; god; good; governor; great; half; hand; harbour; head; heart; held; henry; high; holland; human; important; ireland; john; king; kingdom; known; large; later; league; leave; left; liberty; life; little; long; lord; majesty; making; marseilles; maurice; means; meantime; men; military; moment; months; nassau; nations; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; nobles; occasion; orange; order; people; personal; philip; place; political; pope; portion; position; possession; possible; power; presence; present; prince; proposition; protestant; provinces; purpose; queen; realm; religion; republic; result; return; right; rosne; royal; said; sancy; sea; secret; service; ships; sidney; sir; soldiers; son; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; states; subject; terrible; time; town; treaty; troops; united; use; usual; vere; vessels; visit; war; warmond; way; william; willing; wish; world; year
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        item: #84 of 121
          id: 4869
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1597-98
        date: None
       words: 17407
      flesch: 58
     summary: It was not an impertinence in King Henry, who understood war-matters better than he did affairs of state, in which kings were generally governed by their counsellors and secretaries, but it was very strange that Villeroy should be made quiet with a simple declaration of Richardot. The mute eloquence of those tattered banners seemed a not illogical reply to the diplomatic Paul's rhetoric in regard to the hopelessness of a contest with Spanish armies.
    keywords: accomplished; adventure; albert; ambassador; amiens; antwerp; archduke; army; artillery; attack; battle; bax; bed; best; bethune; better; blood; brussels; calais; campaign; cardinal; cavalry; chief; christendom; city; commander; commonwealth; companies; consent; considerable; council; counsellors; country; course; day; days; dead; difficult; dutch; effect; elizabeth; enemy; england; english; envoy; escape; events; famous; field; foot; force; france; french; garrison; general; great; hague; half; hands; head; heart; heath; henry; history; hohenlo; hollanders; horse; hour; human; important; infantry; instant; january; jesuits; king; latin; league; left; legions; life; like; little; long; maisse; majesty; marcellus; march; master; maurice; meantime; military; mission; moment; monarch; morning; nassau; negotiations; netherlands; new; number; open; operations; order; paris; party; passage; peace; people; philip; pope; position; possible; powers; prince; property; provinces; purpose; queen; rebellious; religious; reply; republic; repudiation; result; return; richardot; right; rosny; royal; secret; siege; simple; single; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; squadrons; stadholder; states; statesmen; thought; time; town; troops; turk; turnhout; van; varax; victory; war; way; william; work; world; year
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        item: #85 of 121
          id: 4870
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1598
        date: None
       words: 22869
      flesch: 55
     summary: The queen had done nothing and would do nothing for the league herself, nor would she solicit for it the adherence of other kings and princes. They did not pretend, he said, to be wiser than great monarch or their counsellors, but the difference between their form of government and a monarchy must be their excuse.
    keywords: able; absolute; accomplished; advocate; affairs; age; aid; albert; allies; ancient; annual; archbishop; arragon; arrangements; assistance; authority; barneveld; best; blood; buzanval; calais; capital; cardinal; case; catholic; causes; cecil; centuries; century; certain; chamber; change; character; chief; christopher; church; cities; city; common; condition; contrary; counsellors; country; course; crime; crown; daughter; day; days; death; dollars; don; duke; dutch; earth; elizabeth; empire; end; enemy; england; english; envoys; eternal; evil; expense; faith; father; force; foreign; form; france; french; friends; general; generation; god; good; government; great; greatest; half; hands; head; heart; henry; history; holy; hope; human; ignorance; impossible; individual; industry; inevitable; infanta; inquisition; institutions; interest; isabella; journey; justice; king; kingdoms; known; labour; law; laws; leading; leave; liberty; life; like; little; living; long; lord; majesty; making; mankind; manner; masses; matter; maurice; means; military; millions; mind; mission; moment; monarch; money; moral; nassau; national; nations; nature; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; nobles; number; offer; olden; order; pay; peace; people; period; perpetual; philip; political; pope; portion; pounds; power; powerful; present; prince; property; provinces; queen; ready; reign; religion; religious; republic; request; result; revenue; richardot; right; royal; sea; self; simple; single; small; son; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; states; strength; subjects; system; thought; time; towns; transfer; treaty; true; united; usual; vast; villeroy; war; wealth; words; work; world; years
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        item: #86 of 121
          id: 4871
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1598-99
        date: None
       words: 18725
      flesch: 57
     summary: Yet it was in the hands of great men, both on shore and sea. At last, on the 17th April, some of them climbing over the icebergs to the shore found much open sea.
    keywords: admiral; albert; amsterdam; archduke; arctic; attempt; august; away; barendz; bears; boats; brussels; cape; caron; cathay; century; chief; china; christian; civilization; close; coast; cold; commerce; commonwealth; company; continent; continued; country; course; court; danger; dangerous; day; days; death; deg; direct; direction; discoveries; discovery; distant; dutch; early; earth; east; elizabeth; enemies; enemy; england; enterprise; enthusiasm; envoy; expedition; eyes; fatherland; fleet; following; foot; foreign; frozen; general; geographical; gerrit; god; good; government; great; half; hand; heemskerk; henry; history; holland; hollanders; home; hook; hope; horrible; house; human; ice; icebergs; india; inhabitants; island; january; john; june; king; large; later; latitude; left; life; linschoten; little; long; maalzoon; magnificent; maps; maritime; maurice; meantime; men; mighty; military; modern; moment; months; names; nassau; navigators; netherlands; new; night; north; northern; nova; obedient; occasion; ocean; open; opinion; order; party; passage; path; peace; period; perpetual; plancius; point; polar; pole; portion; portuguese; possible; power; practical; prince; progress; provinces; queen; regions; republic; result; ryp; sailors; science; scientific; sea; seas; ship; shore; skipper; snow; southern; spain; spanish; states; straits; success; summer; sun; time; trade; true; united; unknown; van; vast; veer; voyage; voyagers; waigats; war; way; weather; white; william; winter; work; world; year; zembla
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        item: #87 of 121
          id: 4872
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
        date: None
       words: 196435
      flesch: 58
     summary: The queen had done nothing and would do nothing for the league herself, nor would she solicit for it the adherence of other kings and princes. Yet it was in the hands of great men, both on shore and sea.
    keywords: absence; absolute; accomplished; account; action; active; administration; admiral; advance; advantage; adventure; advice; advocate; affairs; affection; age; agents; ages; albert; alexander; alive; alliance; allies; ally; alva; ambassador; ambition; amiens; amsterdam; ancestors; ancient; annual; answer; antwerp; anxious; appearance; april; archbishop; archduke; arctic; armada; armed; armies; arms; army; arrangements; arrival; arschot; artillery; artois; assassination; assault; assembly; assistance; assured; atmosphere; attack; attempt; attention; august; authority; autumn; aware; away; bad; baggage; balagny; barendz; barneveld; battle; bax; bearnese; bears; beautiful; beginning; beings; benefit; besieged; best; bethune; better; black; blood; blow; board; boats; bodies; body; bold; bouillon; breach; breda; bridge; brief; brilliant; brittany; broken; brother; brussels; burghers; burghley; burgundy; burning; business; buzanval; calais; calvaert; cambray; campaign; cannon; capable; capital; capitulation; captain; capture; cardinal; career; caron; carrying; castle; catholic; cause; cavalry; cecil; centuries; century; ceremony; certain; chamber; chapter; character; charge; charles; chief; chieftain; children; chivalrous; christendom; christian; church; circumstances; citadel; cities; citizens; city; civil; civilization; claim; classes; close; coast; coeworden; cold; colonel; combat; coming; commander; commerce; commercial; commonwealth; companies; company; complete; conclusion; condition; conduct; confederacy; confederates; conferences; confidence; conflict; conquered; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; constant; consummate; continued; contrary; control; conversion; council; counsellors; countries; country; countrymen; courage; course; court; cousin; creatures; crime; crown; cruel; daily; damage; danger; dangerous; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; debts; decided; declaration; deeds; deep; defeat; defence; demands; demonstration; departure; deputies; designs; desirable; desire; desperate; despotism; destruction; details; determination; determined; different; difficult; diplomatic; direction; disaster; discovery; disposed; disposition; distance; distant; distinguished; divine; dollars; dominions; don; doubt; dozen; duke; dutch; duty; early; earth; east; eastern; easy; effect; efforts; egmont; election; elizabeth; eminent; emperor; empire; end; enemies; enemy; energies; energy; england; english; englishmen; enormous; enterprise; enthusiasm; entrance; envoy; epoch; equal; ernest; escape; essex; established; eternal; europe; events; evil; example; excellent; excited; exhausted; existence; expedition; expense; experienced; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faith; faithful; fall; fallen; false; familiar; family; famous; farnese; fast; fatal; fate; father; favour; fear; feared; feeble; fell; fellow; felt; feria; field; fighting; fine; fire; fixed; flanders; fleet; flemish; florins; foe; following; food; foot; force; foreign; foremost; forlorn; formidable; fort; fortified; fortress; fortunate; france; francis; free; freedom; french; french king; friends; friendship; friesland; frontier; frozen; fuentes; funds; furnished; future; game; garrison; gates; general; generation; genius; gentlemen; geographical; german; gertruydenberg; gigantic; god; gold; good; government; governor; grandees; grandeur; grave; great; great king; greater; greatest; groningen; ground; guard; guise; guns; hague; half; hand; handful; harbour; hard; hatred; head; health; heart; heavy; heemskerk; held; help; henry; heraugiere; hereditary; heresy; heretic; heroic; high; highest; history; hohenlo; holding; holland; hollanders; holy; home; honest; honour; hope; hopeless; horrible; horses; hour; house; huguenot; human; humanity; husband; idea; ignorance; illustrious; immediate; imperial; important; inclined; independence; indignation; individual; industry; inevitable; infanta; infantry; infinite; influence; information; informed; inhabitants; innocent; inquisition; instant; institutions; instructions; intelligence; intention; interest; interview; intrigues; invasion; ireland; iron; isabella; island; issue; italian; italy; january; jesuits; john; journey; judgment; july; june; justice; king; king henry; kingdom; knowledge; known; labour; lady; lancers; language; large; later; latin; latitude; law; laws; leading; league; leaguers; leave; left; legate; legitimate; length; lessons; letters; lewis; liberty; lieutenant; life; like; likely; line; linschoten; little; lives; living; london; long; longer; lord; loss; lost; love; machinery; magnificent; majesty; making; man; mankind; manner; mansfeld; march; maritime; marquis; marriage; marshal; mass; masses; master; matters; maurice; mayenne; means; meantime; measure; members; memorable; memory; men; mendoza; mere; midst; mighty; miles; military; millions; mind; minister; minute; misery; mission; mistress; modern; moment; monarch; mondragon; money; months; moral; moreo; morning; mother; motte; mouth; movements; munitions; murder; musketeers; mutinous; mutiny; names; narrow; nassau; national; nations; natural; nature; navarre; near; necessary; necessity; need; negotiations; neighbourhood; nephew; netherlands; neutral; new; news; nobles; normandy; north; nova; number; nymegen; obedience; obedient; object; obliged; obvious; occasion; ocean; october; offer; officers; olden; open; opening; operations; opinion; opportunity; opposite; orange; order; paris; parliament; parma; party; passage; passion; past; path; pay; payment; people; perfect; performed; period; permission; perpetual; person; personage; personal; peter; petty; philip; picardy; pieces; place; plain; plans; playing; point; poison; polar; pole; policy; political; politicians; poor; pope; populace; popular; population; portion; portugal; portuguese; position; possession; possibility; possible; potent; pounds; power; powerful; practical; practice; preparations; prepared; presence; present; president; previous; priests; prince; prince maurice; princess; principal; principle; private; prize; probable; procession; profound; progress; projects; promises; proof; property; propositions; protection; protestant; provinces; provisions; purpose; quarter; queen; question; race; rapid; reader; ready; real; reality; realms; reason; rebellious; rebels; record; recorded; regard; regiments; regions; regular; relations; relief; relieved; religion; religious; reply; republic; reputation; required; rescue; resources; respect; rest; result; retreat; return; revolution; rhine; rich; richardot; right; river; road; roman; rome; room; rouen; royal; ruin; safety; said; sailors; sake; satisfaction; scale; scenes; schemes; science; scientific; sea; seas; second; secret; secretary; secure; seeking; seine; self; september; service; set; ships; shore; shot; sides; sidney; siege; silent; similar; simple; single; sir; sister; sixteen; sixteenth; sixtus; skill; small; snow; soil; soldiers; solemn; solms; soul; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spanish king; special; spectacle; spirit; splendid; spring; squadrons; stadholder; starving; stately; states; statesmen; step; storm; straits; strange; streets; strength; strong; struggle; study; subject; substantial; success; successful; succour; sudden; suffering; sufficient; summer; sun; superfluous; superior; supplies; support; supreme; surprise; surrender; suspicion; sword; system; table; talk; task; temporary; terms; terrible; territory; things; thought; throne; time; town; trade; traffic; transfer; treasurer; treaty; trifling; triumph; troopers; troops; trouble; true; truth; turk; turnhout; tyranny; unable; uncle; union; united; universal; unknown; usual; utter; vain; valour; value; van; vast; verdugo; vessels; veterans; victory; vigorous; village; villars; villeroy; violent; virtue; visit; voyage; walloon; walls; want; war; warfare; wars; way; weather; weeks; west; white; wife; william; willing; wind; wine; winter; wise; wish; witness; women; words; work; world; wounded; wrath; ybarra; year; young; zeeland; zembla; zutphen
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        item: #88 of 121
          id: 4873
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1600
        date: None
       words: 16910
      flesch: 62
     summary: The States-General, who habitually discountenanced rashness, and were wont to impose superfluous restraints upon the valiant but discreet Lewis William, and upon the deeply pondering but energetic Maurice, were now grown as ardent as they had hitherto been hesitating. The distance from the place where the fleet and army were assembled to Nieuport--the objective point of the enterprise--was but thirty-five miles as the crow flies.
    keywords: able; accomplished; action; admiral; advance; affairs; albert; archduke; army; artillery; attack; barneveld; battle; beach; better; bridge; brother; bruges; cannon; cavalry; certain; charge; city; close; coast; command; commonwealth; companies; complete; considerable; count; course; day; days; defeat; delay; destruction; direction; downs; enemy; ernest; escape; expedition; field; flanders; foe; following; foot; force; fort; francis; general; ghent; great; guard; gunther; half; hand; high; holland; hope; horse; hours; human; important; infantry; instant; invasion; july; large; leffingen; left; lewis; line; little; long; man; manner; march; marching; maurice; meantime; men; military; moment; morning; movement; musketeers; nassau; necessary; netherlands; news; nieuport; night; order; ostend; oudenburg; overthrow; panic; place; point; portion; position; possession; possible; prince; prisoner; provinces; rear; republic; retreat; sand; sea; ships; shot; sir; soldiers; sovereign; spaniards; spanish; spanish army; squadrons; stadholder; states; success; tide; time; triumph; troops; vere; victory; war; water; william; work; world
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        item: #89 of 121
          id: 4874
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1600-02
        date: None
       words: 12941
      flesch: 57
     summary: But they had all red uniforms, and were as fit as other men to dig trenches, to defend them; and to fill them afterwards, and none could fight more manfully or plunder friend and foe with greater cheerfulness of impartiality than did those islanders. On the east side, which was almost inaccessible, as it would seem, by such siege machinery as then existed, was a work called the Spanish half-moon, situate on the new harbour called the Guele or Gullet.
    keywords: age; albert; archduke; army; artillery; assault; attack; attempt; batteries; battle; besieged; besiegers; besieging; blood; bucquoy; business; camp; cannon; cardinal; century; chief; christmas; city; coast; commander; commissioners; condition; course; danger; day; days; dead; death; deep; dutch; dyke; eastern; effect; enemy; english; europe; evening; field; fire; flanders; force; fort; fortifications; francis; french; garrison; general; germans; governor; great; gullet; guns; half; hands; harbour; headquarters; high; highness; hill; history; honour; hostages; hour; human; july; left; like; little; long; longer; making; maurice; men; military; moment; moon; morning; nature; necessary; negotiations; new; nieuport; night; officers; old; operations; ostend; outer; place; porcupine; position; possession; possible; prince; purpose; race; republic; sand; sea; serrano; ships; sides; siege; sir; soldiers; spain; spaniards; spanish; stadholder; states; tide; time; town; trenches; troops; turk; van; vere; walloons; walls; war; warriors; water; weeks; western; winter; works; world; year
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        item: #90 of 121
          id: 4875
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03
        date: None
       words: 14142
      flesch: 56
     summary: More than a thousand men had fallen in Spinola's fleet, inclusive of the miserable slaves, who were tossed overboard as often as wounds made them a cumbrous part of the machinery, and the galleys, damaged, discomfited, laden with corpses and dripping with blood, rowed off into Sluys as speedily as they could move, without waiting until the coming wind should bring all the sailing ships into the fight, together with such other vessels under Haultain as might be cruising in the distance. Merchants arriving at the different Indian ports would often find that their own countrymen had been too quick for them, and that other fleets had got the wind out of their sails, that the eastern markets had been stripped, and that prices had gone up to a ruinous height, while on the other hand, in the Dutch cities, nutmegs and cinnamon, brocades and indigo, were as plentiful as red herrings.
    keywords: admiral; advantage; archduke; armies; army; attack; attempt; ban; battle; best; better; black; board; brief; building; camp; cannon; captain; carrack; chief; children; city; close; command; commerce; commercial; commonwealth; company; considerable; country; crowns; day; days; determined; dutch; earth; east; empire; encounter; enemies; enemy; english; europe; exchange; eyes; family; fighting; fleet; florins; force; forts; frederic; galleot; galley; garrison; general; good; government; grave; great; half; hands; harbour; heavy; heemskerk; highnesses; history; hollanders; hoogstraaten; hour; impossible; india; jacob; king; laden; law; lewis; like; little; long; lost; maurice; meantime; men; meuse; military; moment; moor; mutineers; mutiny; nations; necessary; night; ocean; operations; order; oriental; ostend; permission; philip; place; portion; portuguese; position; power; prince; prisoners; private; progress; property; provinces; regions; religious; republic; sailing; sea; service; set; ships; siege; slaves; sluys; soldiers; spain; spaniards; spanish; spinola; squadron; stadholder; states; time; town; trading; triumph; true; united; vessels; veterans; war; way; winter; wolfert; work; world; wounded; year; zeeland
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        item: #91 of 121
          id: 4876
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1603-04
        date: None
       words: 20203
      flesch: 57
     summary: Thus merchandise might be water-borne from the channel to the Mediterranean, without risking the five or six months' voyage by sea then required from Havre to Marseilles, and exposure along the whole coast to attack from the corsairs of England Spain and Barbary. To how many grave political combinations were these unfortunate infants to give rise, and how distant the period when great nations might no longer be tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery!
    keywords: accession; action; advocate; allies; ambassador; archdukes; army; audience; barneveld; best; bethune; better; britain; british; bulwark; business; catholic; cause; cecil; certain; character; chief; christendom; close; colonel; commander; commonwealth; condition; conference; contempt; counsellors; counterscarp; country; course; court; crowns; daily; day; days; de rosny; dead; death; deputies; difficult; duke; dutch; duty; earth; elizabeth; embassy; empire; enemies; enemy; england; english; envoy; equal; europe; eyes; field; fighting; flanders; foe; fort; france; french; garrison; general; good; government; governor; great; greenwich; half; hand; hard; head; heart; henry; high; history; honour; hope; house; inch; interest; interview; james; king; kingdom; language; leading; little; london; long; lord; majesty; man; marquis; master; maurice; meantime; millions; mind; ministers; moment; monarch; nation; natural; necessary; netherlands; new; number; occasion; old; open; operations; order; ostend; party; people; period; personal; philip; place; plan; polder; policy; political; politicians; porcupine; possession; possible; power; present; prince; private; probable; protestant; provinces; queen; ready; rebels; regard; religion; republic; rosny; royal; sand; scotch; scotland; sea; secret; siege; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spinola; states; subject; successor; thought; throne; time; town; treaty; troops; truth; united; war; way; west; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #92 of 121
          id: 4877
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1604-05
        date: None
       words: 17845
      flesch: 62
     summary: Maurice, arriving at Deventer, and being now strengthened by his cousin Lewis William with such garrison troops as could be collected, learned the mortifying news with sentiments almost akin to despair. Policy of the King of France--Operations of Prince Maurice--Plans for a Flemish Campaign--Passage into Flanders--Fort St. Catharine-- Flight of its garrison, and occupation by Maurice--Surrender of Ysendyke and Aardenburg--Skirmish at Stamper's Hook--Siege of Sluys by Prince Maurice--Ineffectual attempt of Spinola to relieve the town--Its capitulation and restoration to the States--Death of Lewis Gunther of Nassau--Operations at Ostend--Surrender of the garrison-- Desolation of the scene after its evacuation.
    keywords: action; admiral; advance; age; ambassador; archdukes; army; assault; attack; august; battle; bax; best; better; blow; brief; brother; cadzand; campaign; castle; catholic; cause; cavalry; channel; chief; citadel; city; coast; commander; council; count; country; day; days; dead; death; defeat; defence; difficult; dutch; early; east; efforts; enemy; england; english; escape; expedition; famous; field; fight; flanders; fleet; flemish; foe; foot; force; fort; france; frederic; freedom; french; garrison; general; genoese; good; government; great; ground; guard; guns; hands; hard; head; heart; henry; hollanders; house; human; important; india; infantry; insignificant; international; island; james; king; large; late; lewis; lines; little; long; march; master; maurice; meantime; men; mightinesses; miles; military; months; nassau; nations; necessary; netherlands; new; nieuport; numbers; officers; operations; order; ostend; period; place; portion; portuguese; position; possession; possible; prepared; prince; prisoners; purpose; regions; republic; resistance; result; rhine; river; sea; ships; siege; sluys; small; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spinola; spirit; stadholder; states; stream; strong; subjects; success; surprise; surrender; swint; ternate; town; trade; treaty; trivulzio; troops; tydor; united; vessels; victory; war; waters; way; west; william; work; world; year; young; zeeland
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        item: #93 of 121
          id: 4878
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1605-07
        date: None
       words: 21337
      flesch: 61
     summary: The radical defect of the Dutch constitution--the independent sovereignty claimed by each one of the provinces composing the confederation, each of those provinces on its part being composed of cities, each again claiming something very like sovereignty for itself--could not fail to be manifested whenever, great negotiations with foreign powers were to be undertaken. On his return to the Netherlands Spinola fell dangerously ill in Genoa.
    keywords: admiral; advantage; advocate; aerssens; affairs; age; ally; ancient; archdukes; armies; armistice; army; assembly; assistance; attempt; authority; away; barneveld; best; better; board; brief; brother; brussels; buzanval; campaign; catholic; certain; chief; christendom; city; close; coast; commerce; commercial; commonwealth; company; consent; country; course; court; cruwel; days; demand; desire; difficult; diplomacy; doubt; dutch; early; effect; enemy; england; english; envoy; escape; europe; far; favour; field; flanders; fleet; force; france; free; french; friar; future; general; golden; good; government; great; groll; hague; half; hand; haultain; heart; help; henry; history; holland; hope; immediate; important; independence; india; james; john; king; klaaszoon; large; late; lay; left; liberty; life; like; little; long; majesty; man; matter; maurice; means; meantime; merchant; military; ministers; mission; moment; monk; months; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; neyen; number; occasion; offer; operations; opinion; order; party; peace; people; period; places; point; portion; position; possible; power; present; prince; provinces; ready; rebellious; recorder; regard; republic; result; return; right; royal; schemes; sea; secret; ships; siege; sluys; small; soldiers; sovereignty; spain; spanish; spinola; stadholder; states; sure; territory; thought; time; troops; united; van; waal; war; way; weather; west; work; world; year; yssel; zeeland
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        item: #94 of 121
          id: 4879
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1607a
        date: None
       words: 12970
      flesch: 61
     summary: Yet the British empire, with the American republic still an embryo in its bosom, France, North Germany, and other great powers, had hardly then begun their headlong career. The whole revenue of the state was nominally sixteen or seventeen millions of dollars, but the greater portion of that income was pledged for many coming years to the merchants of Genoa.
    keywords: admiral; aeolus; affairs; age; alteras; ancient; archbishop; army; augustine; autocrat; battle; bay; best; board; business; capital; captain; centuries; character; chief; children; christendom; church; coast; commerce; comrades; condition; council; country; court; courtiers; d'avila; day; days; death; difficult; dollars; don; duke; dutch; empire; end; enemy; epoch; eyes; father; favourite; fire; flag; fleet; foreign; france; galleons; general; gibraltar; gigantic; good; government; great; guns; hands; heemskerk; high; history; human; humble; iii; income; industry; influence; john; kind; king; kingdom; known; labour; land; large; lerma; life; likely; little; long; man; matter; millions; minister; moment; monarch; money; moors; nations; natural; near; netherlanders; new; noble; number; ocean; order; past; people; philip; place; policy; political; poor; portion; possible; power; priests; purpose; queen; race; regular; religious; republic; rest; revenue; royal; sea; ships; single; size; small; son; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; system; terrible; thought; time; united; vessels; vice; war; way; wealth; work; world; years
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        item: #95 of 121
          id: 4880
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1607b
        date: None
       words: 20964
      flesch: 57
     summary: Ignorant people think peace negotiations as simple as a private lawsuit. If the object were attainable, the ex-chief of the Huguenots still meant to be king of the Netherlands as sincerely as Philip II.
    keywords: accomplished; admiral; advocate; aerssens; affairs; ambassadors; ancient; answer; archdukes; armistice; arrival; assembly; authority; aware; barneveld; best; better; brussels; catholic; cause; certain; church; commissioners; commonwealth; condition; conferences; consent; council; country; course; court; day; days; desire; difficult; document; don; dutch; east; effect; empire; end; enemy; england; envoys; europe; faith; favour; fleet; force; foreign; form; france; free; french; french king; friar; future; general; good; government; great; greater; hague; hand; henry; history; holland; hope; hostilities; huguenot; important; independence; india; indies; influence; instrument; interests; james; jeannin; john; johore; king; kingdom; late; letters; lewis; liberty; little; long; madrid; majesty; malacca; man; marquis; matelieff; maurice; means; meantime; millions; monarch; monk; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; new; neyen; number; object; opinion; order; original; party; peace; peninsula; people; philip; point; position; possible; powers; president; prince; private; promise; provinces; ratification; rebels; recal; regard; religion; republic; respect; result; return; right; royal; said; secret; set; ships; siege; sincere; solemn; son; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; spinola; splendid; states; subject; suspicion; terms; thought; time; trade; treaty; troops; truce; united; verreyken; victory; war; way; william; work; world; ybarra; years
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        item: #96 of 121
          id: 4881
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608a
        date: None
       words: 12749
      flesch: 61
     summary: According to the principles of the ancients, it was legitimate to make war upon such States as closed their own ports to foreign intercourse. The States took time to deliberate, and returned no answer until after the new year.
    keywords: advocate; allies; ambassadors; ancient; answer; archdukes; armistice; assistance; august; barneveld; best; brother; catholic; cause; certain; claim; cloths; commerce; commissioners; commonwealth; company; concession; conference; countries; course; court; day; days; delay; don; east; effect; emperor; empire; end; enemy; england; english; envoys; epoch; faith; foreign; france; free; freedom; french; friar; general; god; good; government; great; hague; half; hand; henry; holland; hollanders; house; human; important; india; indies; james; jeannin; john; king; liberty; like; little; long; longer; majesty; matter; maurice; mind; moment; nation; navigation; negotiations; netherlands; new; ocean; old; paris; party; peace; people; philip; point; political; power; president; prince; propositions; provinces; reason; regard; religion; republic; return; richardot; right; royal; secret; self; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; spinola; states; subject; thought; time; trade; traffic; truce; united; war; william; world; year
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        item: #97 of 121
          id: 4882
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608b
        date: None
       words: 17407
      flesch: 61
     summary: When the Spanish commissioners came to the French and English ambassadors accordingly, complaining of the abrupt and peremptory tone of the States' reply, the suggestion of conferences for truce, in place of fruitless peace negotiations, was made at once, and of course favourably received. It was no longer to be decided whether there should be truce or war with Spain, but whether a single member of the confederacy could dictate its law to the other six States.
    keywords: advocate; ambassadors; archdukes; arms; assembly; barneveld; better; cause; certain; cities; commerce; commissioners; commonwealth; conditions; consent; continued; country; course; cousin; day; days; deputies; determined; doubt; dutch; easy; enemies; enemy; england; english; envoys; father; force; foreign; france; free; freedom; french; friends; general; god; good; government; great; hague; half; hand; having; henry; high; holland; house; human; impossible; independence; influence; instructions; interests; jeannin; king; lambert; language; law; laws; letters; liberty; like; little; long; longer; making; man; marriage; master; maurice; means; men; mind; moment; necessary; necessity; negotiations; netherlands; new; occasion; old; opinion; opposition; order; party; peace; people; period; point; political; power; present; president; prince; private; proof; provinces; question; regard; religion; religious; republic; resolution; result; richardot; secret; services; sincerity; sovereignty; spain; spanish; speech; stadholder; states; statesgeneral; statesman; strength; sword; terms; thought; time; treaty; truce; union; united; war; wish; words; world; years; zeeland
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        item: #98 of 121
          id: 4883
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1609
        date: None
       words: 18204
      flesch: 56
     summary: It has been a model which has been imitated, in many respects, by great nations. While the soldiers in the pay of Queen Elizabeth were crawling to her palace gates to die of starvation before her eyes; while the veterans of Spain and of Italy had organized themselves into a permanent military, mutinous republic, on the soil of the so-called obedient Netherland, because they were left by their masters without clothing or food; the cavalry and infantry of the Dutch commonwealth, thanks to the organizing spirit and the wholesome thrift of the burgher authorities, were contented, obedient, well fed, well clothed, and well paid; devoted to their Government, and ever ready to die in its defence.
    keywords: advocate; age; ancient; antwerp; archdukes; arminius; army; article; authorities; barneveld; bergen; best; britain; brother; calvinists; catholic; cause; centuries; century; certain; church; city; commerce; commercial; commonwealth; contemporary; countries; country; course; crown; daily; day; days; death; debt; doctrine; dutch; earth; england; epoch; europe; exercise; fact; famous; florins; force; foreign; form; france; freedom; future; general; god; good; government; grave; great; great war; hague; half; hand; head; henry; high; history; holland; hollanders; holy; human; humanity; independence; india; inevitable; inhabitants; inquisition; intellect; james; jeannin; john; king; kingdom; large; leyden; liberty; life; long; lords; majesty; mankind; matters; maurice; mighty; millions; moment; months; municipal; nation; necessary; need; negotiations; netherlands; new; number; obedient; ocean; order; party; peace; people; period; perpetual; philip; plenipotentiaries; point; political; popular; population; possession; power; president; prince; progress; property; protestants; provinces; provincial; ready; reason; recognition; regions; religion; religious; republic; revenue; right; said; science; sea; secret; seventeenth; ships; silent; soil; soul; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; states; subjects; supreme; theological; thought; time; toleration; trade; traffic; treaty; truce; truth; turn; tyranny; united; united provinces; vast; war; way; william; work; world; worship; years
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        item: #99 of 121
          id: 4884
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1600-1609)
        date: None
       words: 189823
      flesch: 59
     summary: Yet the British empire, with the American republic still an embryo in its bosom, France, North Germany, and other great powers, had hardly then begun their headlong career. Maurice replied, with a sneer, to these sententious commonplaces derived at second-hand from King James that great kings were often very indifferent to injuries sustained by their friends.
    keywords: absolute; accomplished; account; accustomed; action; admiral; advance; advantage; advice; advocate; aerssens; affairs; age; agent; agreement; alas; albert; alexander; alive; alliance; allies; ally; amazed; ambassador; ambition; america; amsterdam; ancient; annual; answer; antwerp; anxious; appearance; april; archduke; arguments; armed; armies; armistice; arms; army; arragon; arrangements; arrival; article; artillery; assailants; assault; assembly; assistance; atmosphere; attack; attempt; attention; audience; august; austria; authority; aware; away; bad; barneveld; basis; batteries; battery; battle; beach; bear; beginning; behalf; bergen; besieged; besiegers; besieging; best; better; black; blood; blow; board; body; branch; break; bribe; bridge; brief; brilliant; britain; british; broken; brother; brussels; bucquoy; building; burghers; business; cadzand; campaign; cannon; capacity; capital; captain; capture; cardinal; career; carrying; catholic; catholic king; cause; cavalry; cecil; centuries; century; certain; chain; chance; channel; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; christendom; christian; church; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; civilization; claim; close; coast; colonel; combat; coming; command; commander; commerce; commercial; commissioners; commonwealth; companies; company; comparatively; complete; comrades; conclusion; condition; conduct; conference; conflict; conquered; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; conspicuous; consumption; contemporary; contempt; continued; contrary; convenient; convinced; council; counsellors; counterscarp; countries; country; countrymen; couple; course; court; courtiers; cousin; creatures; crime; cross; crown; cruisers; daily; damage; danger; dangerous; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dealing; death; decision; deeds; deep; defeat; defence; delay; demand; deputies; designs; desire; desirous; despair; desperate; destruction; details; determined; different; difficult; dignity; diplomacy; diplomatic; direction; disaster; discussion; dismal; disposed; distance; distant; distinguished; document; dollars; dominions; don; double; doubt; doubtless; downs; drive; dry; ducats; dutch; dutch republic; dutchmen; duty; dying; dyke; early; earth; east; eastern; easy; editor; effect; effected; effective; efforts; elizabeth; eloquence; embassy; emperor; empire; encounter; enemies; enemy; energetic; energy; england; english; enormous; enterprise; entrance; envoy; epoch; equal; ernest; escape; eternal; europe; european; events; evil; example; excellent; exchange; exchequer; excited; exercise; exhausted; existence; expected; expedition; expenses; experienced; express; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; false; familiar; family; famous; far; fast; fatal; fate; father; fatherland; favour; favourable; favourite; fear; feeling; field; fierce; fighting; fine; fire; firm; flag; flanders; fleet; fleming; flemish; florins; foe; following; foot; force; foreign; foremost; form; formal; formidable; fort; fortifications; fortress; fortunate; fortune; forward; foundation; france; francis; frederic; free; freedom; french; french king; fresh; friar; friendly; friends; friendship; friesland; frontier; future; gain; galleons; galley; garrison; general; generation; genius; genoese; german; gibraltar; gigantic; glory; god; gold; golden; good; government; governor; grant; grave; great; great king; great war; greater; greatest; ground; guard; gullet; guns; gunther; hague; half; hand; harbour; hard; hatred; haultain; having; head; heart; heavy; heemskerk; help; henry; high; highest; highnesses; hill; history; holland; hollanders; holy; home; honest; honour; honourable; hope; hostilities; hour; house; human; humanity; humble; idea; idle; iii; imagined; immediate; immense; impending; imperial; important; incapable; inch; inclined; income; independence; india; indies; indignation; individual; industry; inevitable; infanta; infantry; influence; informed; inhabitants; inquisition; insignificant; instant; instructions; instrument; intellectual; intelligence; intention; interest; international; interview; intimated; intolerable; invasion; iron; island; issue; italian; james; jeannin; john; joy; july; june; justice; king; king james; kingdom; knees; known; labour; laden; lambert; language; large; late; law; laws; lay; leading; league; learned; leave; left; lerma; lesser; lesson; letters; lewis; liberty; life; like; likely; line; little; little republic; lives; living; london; long; longer; lord; loss; lost; love; low; machinery; madrid; magistrates; magnificent; main; majesty; making; man; mankind; manner; march; marching; maritime; mark; marquis; marriage; mass; master; matelieff; material; matters; maurice; meagre; means; meantime; measure; members; memorable; memory; men; merchants; mere; middle; midsummer; mighty; miles; military; millions; mind; ministers; modern; moment; monarch; money; monk; monopoly; months; moon; morning; mouth; movement; mutineers; mutiny; nassau; nation; national; natural; nature; naval; navigation; navy; near; necessary; necessity; need; negotiations; neighbourhood; netherlands; new; news; neyen; nieuport; noble; north; number; obedient; object; obvious; occasion; ocean; october; offer; officers; open; operations; opinion; opportunity; orange; order; oriental; original; ostend; outside; palace; panic; paper; paris; parties; party; passage; passing; passion; past; path; pay; peace; peninsula; people; perfect; period; permission; perpetual; personages; personal; persons; philip; picked; pieces; places; plan; point; polder; policy; political; politicians; poor; pope; popular; population; porcupine; portion; portuguese; position; possession; possibility; possible; potentates; power; powerful; practical; precious; preliminary; preparations; prepared; presence; present; president; pretended; pretensions; priests; prince; prince maurice; principal; principles; prisoners; private; prize; probable; proceedings; progress; project; promise; proof; property; proposition; protection; protestant; provinces; purpose; quarter; queen; question; race; rank; ratification; ready; real; reason; reasonable; rebellious; rebels; recent; recognition; recorded; refuge; regard; regions; regular; relief; religion; religious; reply; repose; republic; republicans; reputation; request; resolution; resources; respect; rest; result; retreat; return; revenue; rhine; richardot; right; river; road; roman; rosny; royal; ruin; sacred; safe; said; sailors; sand; save; scene; schemes; science; sea; seas; second; secret; secretary; secure; self; sentiments; september; service; set; seven; severe; share; ships; shot; sides; siege; silent; simple; sincere; single; skill; slavery; slaves; sluys; small; soil; soldiers; solemn; soul; sound; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spanish king; special; spinola; spirit; splendid; spot; squadrons; stadholder; standing; states; statesman; steady; step; storm; straight; strange; stream; strength; strong; struggle; subject; substantial; successful; sufficient; summer; superfluous; superior; support; supreme; sure; surprise; surrender; suspicion; sword; sympathy; system; talk; temporary; terms; ternate; terrible; territory; theological; things; thought; throne; tide; time; toleration; town; trade; trading; traffic; transactions; transports; treaties; treaty; trenches; triumph; troops; truce; truth; turk; tyranny; tyrant; union; united; united provinces; united states; universal; unjust; unproductive; useful; usual; vain; valuable; value; van; vast; verreyken; vessels; veterans; victims; victory; village; visit; vital; wait; walloons; walls; want; war; warfare; water; waves; way; weather; weeks; west; western; white; wide; wife; william; willing; wind; winter; wisdom; wish; women; words; work; world; worship; wounded; wrath; years; young; zeeland; zeelanders
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        item: #100 of 121
          id: 4886
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1609-10
        date: None
       words: 35246
      flesch: 59
     summary: So long as William the Silent lived, that great prince was all in all to his country, and Barneveld was proud and happy to be among the most trusted and assiduous of his counsellors. It was obvious enough that Barneveld having now so long exercised great powers, and become as it were the chief magistrate of an important commonwealth, would not be so friendly as formerly to its conversion into a monarchy and to the elevation of the great soldier to its throne.
    keywords: advice; advocate; aerssens; affairs; age; aid; albert; alive; alliance; ally; ambassador; ambition; ancient; archduke; archives; army; assistance; assured; attempt; austria; authority; barneveld; best; better; brandenburg; britain; brother; business; catholic; cause; centuries; century; certain; chief; christendom; church; civil; claims; cleve; commonwealth; condition; confederacy; conflict; considerable; continued; correspondence; country; course; court; creed; crown; daily; day; death; designs; difficult; diplomatic; doubt; duchies; duke; dutch; early; eldest; elector; elizabeth; embassy; emperor; empire; enemy; england; english; envoy; epoch; equality; established; europe; face; faith; family; father; felt; force; foreign; france; freedom; french; friendly; friends; friendship; frontier; future; game; general; germany; good; government; great; half; hand; having; head; heart; help; henry; high; historical; history; holland; holy; hope; house; human; imperial; important; independence; influence; instructions; interests; intrigue; james; jealousy; jeannin; john; julich; king; known; language; large; later; law; lead; league; leave; left; leopold; letters; liberty; life; like; likely; little; living; long; lords; majesty; man; master; matters; maurice; means; meantime; men; military; mind; ministers; mission; moment; monarch; money; national; natural; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; neuburg; new; noble; open; opinion; opposed; order; palatine; papers; paris; party; pay; peace; people; period; philip; point; policy; political; pope; portion; position; possession; possessory; possible; post; power; presence; present; princes; principle; private; proceedings; proper; protestant; protestantism; provinces; purpose; question; ready; regard; relations; religion; religious; republic; result; richardot; right; rome; royal; rudolph; ruin; scheme; secret; self; sense; service; sibylla; silent; small; soldier; son; sovereign; spain; spaniard; spanish; special; spirit; states; statesman; struggle; study; subject; succession; sully; sum; system; theological; thought; time; treaty; troops; truce; truth; union; united; universal; van; vast; venice; villeroy; volumes; war; way; william; work; world; years; young
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        item: #101 of 121
          id: 4887
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610a
        date: None
       words: 13453
      flesch: 63
     summary: for Margaret de Montmorency--Her Marriage with the Prince of Conde--Their Departure for the Country--Their Flight to the Netherlands-Rage of the King--Intrigues of Spain--Reception of the Prince and Princess of Conde by the Archdukes at Brussels-- Splendid Entertainments by Spinola--Attempts of the King to bring the Fugitives back--Mission of De Coeuvres to Brussels--Difficult Position of the Republic--Vast but secret Preparations for War. He was to propose that Conde and his wife should return with the Prince and Princess of Orange to Breda, the King pledging himself that for three or four months nothing should be undertaken against him.
    keywords: abduction; advocate; aerssens; affair; albert; ambassador; angouleme; archduke; aunt; barneveld; bassompierre; beautiful; bed; best; breda; brussels; cause; city; coeuvres; conde; constable; court; day; days; deep; designs; divorce; doubt; dowager; duchess; effect; envoy; father; flight; force; france; french; general; good; great; hands; heart; henry; honour; husband; instructions; interview; isabella; king; kingdom; lady; leave; left; letters; life; long; love; majesty; man; margaret; marquis; marriage; mary; master; means; medici; minister; moment; money; morning; nassau; night; old; orange; order; palace; pardon; paris; pecquius; plot; prince; princess; project; queen; reason; reconciliation; residence; return; royal; scheme; secretary; spain; spanish; special; spinola; states; terms; territory; thought; throne; time; turning; villeroy; visit; war; wife; world; wrath; years; young
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        item: #102 of 121
          id: 4888
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610b
        date: None
       words: 27943
      flesch: 59
     summary: At that epoch the States' commissioners, Barneveld himself at the head of them, had gone solemnly to congratulate King James on his accession, had scarcely been admitted to audience by king or minister, and had found themselves on great festivals unsprinkled with the holy water of the court, and of no more account than the crowd of citizens and spectators who thronged the streets, gazing with awe at the distant radiance of the throne. And there were many men living and employed in great affairs of State, both in France and in the Republic--the King and Villeroy, Barneveld and Maurice--who could remember how twenty-six years before a solemn embassy from the States had proceeded from the Hague to France to offer the sovereignty of their country to Henry's predecessor, had been kept ignominiously and almost like prisoners four weeks long in Rouen, and had been thrust back into the Netherlands without being admitted even to one audience by the monarch.
    keywords: account; advocate; aerssens; affairs; alliance; allies; ambassadors; ancient; anhalt; archdukes; arms; army; assistance; audience; austria; authority; barneveld; best; better; bouillon; britain; brother; business; carriage; catholic; cause; certain; chief; christendom; city; cleve; coming; command; commissioners; commonwealth; company; concini; conde; conferences; coronation; council; country; course; court; crowns; daily; day; days; death; designs; difficult; doubt; duchies; duke; dutch; effect; embassy; england; english; enterprise; envoys; epernon; europe; far; father; foot; forces; france; french; friends; friendship; future; general; germany; god; good; government; great; great britain; great king; hague; half; hand; head; heart; henry; high; history; holland; honour; hour; house; important; inclined; india; informed; instructions; interview; james; julich; kanter; king; kingdom; language; late; law; league; leave; letters; life; likely; little; long; lords; love; majesty; man; marshal; mary; matters; maurice; meantime; medici; mightinesses; mighty; military; ministers; moment; money; myle; necessary; netherlands; new; nuncius; occasion; old; opinion; order; paris; party; pecquius; people; person; place; policy; political; position; possession; possessory; possible; power; preparations; present; princes; private; provinces; queen; ready; regard; regent; religious; republic; return; right; royal; secretary; sending; service; solemn; son; sovereign; spain; spanish; special; states; subject; succour; sully; terms; things; thought; time; town; treaty; troops; truce; union; united; utrecht; van; vast; villeroy; war; way; wife; world; writing; years
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        item: #103 of 121
          id: 4889
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610c-12
        date: None
       words: 14958
      flesch: 58
     summary: D.W.] THE LIFE AND DEATH of JOHN OF BARNEVELD, ADVOCATE OF HOLLAND WITH A VIEW OF THE PRIMARY CAUSES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., LL.D. MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Volume 89 Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v4, 1610-12 CHAPTER V. Interviews between the Dutch Commissioners and King James--Prince Maurice takes command of the Troops--Surrender of Julich--Matthias crowned King of Bohemia--Death of Rudolph--James's Dream of a Spanish Marriage--Appointment of Vorstius in place of Arminius at Leyden--Interview between Maurice and Winwood--Increased Bitterness between Barneveld and Maurice--Projects of Spanish Marriages in France. It was much already that the upstart confederacy had defied Pope, Emperor, and King, as it were, on their own domains, had dictated arrangements in Germany directly in the teeth of its emperor, using France as her subordinate, and compelling the British king to acquiesce in what he most hated.
    keywords: advocate; aerssens; affairs; alliance; ambassador; arminius; assembly; assured; authority; barneveld; best; bohemia; britain; brother; business; catholic; cause; chief; church; civil; commissioners; condition; continued; country; course; court; crown; day; death; designs; duchies; emperor; england; english; events; france; french; friendship; general; germany; god; good; government; great; head; henry; high; hold; holland; honour; hope; important; infanta; information; informed; instructions; james; julich; king; known; language; later; laws; leopold; letters; leyden; life; little; long; lords; majesty; man; marriages; matter; matthias; maurice; means; meantime; mightinesses; ministers; moment; months; nature; necessary; netherlands; opinion; order; people; place; points; policy; position; power; prague; predestination; prince; professor; protestantism; provinces; question; regard; religion; republic; resolution; royal; rudolph; service; spain; spanish; states; statesman; subject; sympathy; things; thought; time; truce; united; university; vorstius; war; way; willing; winwood; word; wrath; year
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        item: #104 of 121
          id: 4890
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1609-14
        date: None
       words: 18281
      flesch: 60
     summary: Let that be done which is so much desired by the United Provinces and other great enemies and rivals of your Majesty, and what security will there be that the same Provinces will not again attempt the same invasion? In Holland the controlling influence was Remonstrant; but Amsterdam and four or five other cities of that province held to the opposite doctrine.
    keywords: absolute; advocate; aerssens; affairs; ambassador; ancient; archduke; aristocracy; armies; arminius; army; authority; barneveld; best; brandenburg; brussels; catholic; cause; certain; character; chief; church; churches; city; civil; claim; cleve; commonwealth; condition; contra; control; controversy; country; court; day; dead; death; despatches; difference; difficult; doctrine; duchies; ecclesiastical; elect; end; enemies; england; envoy; eternal; europe; fact; faith; flanders; forces; france; free; french; garrison; general; god; gomarus; good; government; great; greater; hague; hands; hatred; heart; henry; history; holland; holy; horse; human; imperial; important; influence; intellect; intrigues; james; julich; king; large; late; law; letters; life; like; long; magistrates; majesty; majority; man; matters; maurice; meantime; military; moment; money; mutual; national; necessary; negotiation; netherlands; neuburg; neutral; new; order; party; people; place; points; policy; political; position; possession; post; power; preachers; prince; protestant; protestantism; provinces; queen; question; regard; religion; religious; remonstrant; republic; right; schism; set; sovereignty; spain; spanish; spinola; spirit; stadholder; states; struggle; synod; territory; theological; thought; time; town; treaty; truce; union; united; villeroy; war; wesel; work; world; xanten; years
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        item: #105 of 121
          id: 4891
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1613-15
        date: None
       words: 10352
      flesch: 61
     summary: CHAPTER X Weakness of the Rulers of France and England--The Wisdom of Barneveld inspires Jealousy--Sir Dudley Carleton succeeds Winwood-- Young Neuburg under the Guidance of Maximilian--Barneveld strives to have the Treaty of Xanten enforced--Spain and the Emperor wish to make the States abandon their Position with regard to the Duchies-- The French Government refuses to aid the States--Spain and the Emperor resolve to hold Wesel--The great Religious War begun--The Protestant Union and Catholic League both wish to secure the Border Provinces--Troubles in Turkey--Spanish Fleet seizes La Roche--Spain places large Armies on a War Footing. It was Barneveld's estimate that before the truce the States had received from France eleven millions of florins in cash, and during the truce up to the year 1613, 3,600,000 in addition, besides a million still due, making a total of about fifteen millions.
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        item: #106 of 121
          id: 4892
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15)
        date: None
       words: 120522
      flesch: 59
     summary: Let that be done which is so much desired by the United Provinces and other great enemies and rivals of your Majesty, and what security will there be that the same Provinces will not again attempt the same invasion? Everybody should mind his own business Fate, free will, or absolute foreknowledge Father Cotton, who was only too ready to betray the secrets Give him advice if he asked it, and money when he required Great war of religion and politics was postponed He was not imperial of aspect on canvas or coin
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french king; friendly; friends; friendship; frontier; future; game; general; general war; gentleman; germany; god; good; government; gratitude; grave; great; great advocate; great britain; great king; great prince; great war; greater; greatest; ground; hague; half; hands; hatred; having; head; heart; help; henry; heretics; heroic; high; highest; history; hold; holding; holland; hollanders; holy; home; honour; hope; hour; house; human; husband; immense; impending; imperial; important; inclined; independence; india; inevitable; influence; informed; instant; instructions; intellect; intended; intention; interests; interview; intrigue; italy; james; jealousy; jeannin; john; journey; judgment; julich; justice; king; king james; kingdom; knowing; knowledge; known; language; large; late king; later; law; laws; leading; league; leave; left; legal; leopold; letters; leyden; liberty; life; like; likely; little; living; long; longer; look; lords; lost; love; magistracy; magistrates; majesty; majority; 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        item: #107 of 121
          id: 4893
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17
        date: None
       words: 24624
      flesch: 62
     summary: The Advocate sounds the Alarm in Germany--His Instructions to Langerac and his Forethought--The Prince--Palatine and his Forces take Aachen, Mulheim, and other Towns--Supineness of the Protestants--Increased Activity of Austria and the League--Barneveld strives to obtain Help from England--Neuburg departs for Germany-- Barneveld the Prime Minister of Protestantism--Ernest Mansfield takes service under Charles Emmanuel--Count John of Nassau goes to Savoy--Slippery Conduct of King James in regard to the New Treaty proposed--Barneveld's Influence greater in France than in England-- Sequestration feared--The Elector of Brandenburg cited to appear before the Emperor at Prague--Murder of John van Wely--Uytenbogaert incurs Maurice's Displeasure--Marriage of the King of France with Anne of Austria--Conference between King James and Caron concerning Piracy, Cloth Trade and Treaty of Xanten--Barneveld's Survey of the Condition of Europe--His Efforts to avert the impending general War. Partly to humour King James and partly from love of adventure, Count John of Nassau had gone to Savoy at the head of a small well disciplined body of troops furnished by the States.
    keywords: aachen; advice; advocate; affairs; aid; alliance; allies; ambassador; archduke; armies; army; arrangement; assistance; attack; attempt; austria; authority; barneveld; best; bohemia; brandenburg; britain; british; caron; catholic; cause; certain; christendom; cities; city; common; conde; countries; country; court; danger; daughter; day; days; death; designs; dignity; doubt; duchies; dutch; efforts; elector; emperor; empire; enemy; england; english; europe; foot; force; france; french; friends; general; germany; gone; good; government; great; great britain; greater; hague; hands; head; heart; help; henry; highest; history; hold; hope; house; important; informed; intention; italy; james; john; julich; king; king james; kingdom; langerac; later; law; league; life; like; long; lords; majesties; majesty; marriage; matter; maurice; means; meantime; moment; money; movements; mulheim; murder; necessary; negotiations; netherlands; neuburg; new; order; palatine; paris; parliament; party; peace; people; places; policy; political; possible; power; powerful; princes; promise; protestant; protestantism; provinces; purpose; queen; questions; ready; reasons; regard; relations; religion; religionists; religious; republic; resolution; right; roman; savoy; sequestration; sir; soldiers; son; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; special; spinola; states; statesman; territories; thought; time; towns; treaty; troops; union; united; vast; venice; vigorous; war; wesel; wish; world; xanten; year
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        item: #108 of 121
          id: 4894
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617
        date: None
       words: 31331
      flesch: 57
     summary: In the name of the theological faculty of Wittenberg, he addressed a truehearted warning to all Lutheran Christians in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and other provinces, to beware of the erroneous Calvinistic religion. They were driven out in hordes in broad daylight from Gratz and other cities.
    keywords: accommodation; act; advocate; affairs; age; ambassador; amsterdam; ancient; arms; assembly; attempt; austria; authority; barneveld; best; better; blood; bohemia; britain; brother; calvinists; cardinal; carleton; catholic; cause; centuries; certain; chief; christendom; christian; church; churches; cities; city; civil; clerical; cloister; commonwealth; companies; company; compromise; conflict; conscience; constitution; contra; contrary; council; country; course; court; creed; crown; day; days; death; decided; determined; differences; different; dissensions; doctrine; doubt; dresden; duchies; duke; ecclesiastical; election; elector; emperor; empire; enemy; england; english; europe; evils; excellency; faith; famous; father; favour; ferdinand; following; force; foreign; france; frederic; french; friend; general; general government; germany; god; good; government; great; great church; grotius; hague; half; hand; hatred; head; heart; heidelberg; hereditary; heretics; history; holland; holy; hope; house; human; imperial; informed; intention; interest; issue; james; jesuits; john; jubilee; king; law; laws; leave; legal; letters; leyden; liberties; liberty; life; little; long; lutherans; magistrates; majesty; majority; making; man; master; matters; matthias; maurice; maximilian; means; measure; military; minority; mob; moment; movements; mutual; national; nature; necessary; need; netherlands; new; oath; object; opinion; opposed; opposition; orange; order; palatine; papists; parties; party; people; personal; persons; place; point; political; pope; popular; possible; power; powerful; prague; preacher; present; prince; protestant; protestantism; provinces; provincial; question; ready; reformation; regard; religion; religious; remonstrants; representatives; republic; resolution; respective; result; right; royal; salvation; saxony; scheme; separate; service; sharp; single; soldiers; son; sovereign states; sovereignty; spain; spanish; spirit; stadholder; states; statesman; streets; struggle; subject; succession; sunday; support; supreme; sword; sympathy; synod; system; theological; thought; throne; time; toleration; town; troops; true; union; united; utrecht; uytenbogaert; van; view; visit; vote; war; william; window; words; world; worship; years; young
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        item: #109 of 121
          id: 4895
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618
        date: None
       words: 25872
      flesch: 58
     summary: The former adherent of plain Advocate Barneveld could hardly find superlatives enough to bestow upon the man whose displeasure that prisoner had incurred. Most illustrious, high-born Prince, most gracious Lord, he said; obeying the commands which it has pleased the States and your princely Grace to give me, I send back the letters of Advocate Barneveld.
    keywords: account; advocate; aerssens; affairs; age; albert; ambassador; ancient; answer; archduke; arrest; assembly; authority; barneveld; best; board; body; boississe; catholic; cause; centuries; certain; chamber; change; charges; children; church; cities; city; colleagues; commissioners; commonwealth; communication; company; confidential; contra; correspondence; council; country; course; court; day; days; death; departure; deputies; determined; disposed; dissensions; duty; effect; efforts; enemies; england; events; excellency; faithful; fallen; father; favour; florins; force; foreign; france; french; friend; friendship; general; god; good; government; grace; great; greater; grotius; hague; half; hand; head; high; history; holland; hollanders; home; house; important; instructions; interview; john; king; langerac; large; law; lawful; laws; leave; ledenberg; letter; lewis; life; little; long; lords; magistracy; magistrates; majesty; majority; making; man; matter; maurice; maurier; means; meantime; members; military; moment; municipal; myle; nassau; national; necessary; netherlands; new; nobles; oath; obedience; obedient; object; occasion; offices; open; opinion; opposed; opposition; orange; order; paris; party; people; personal; persons; place; pleased; plot; political; prince; prince maurice; princely; private; property; provinces; ready; rebellion; regard; religion; religious; remonstrants; reply; republic; right; save; scheme; sea; secret; service; silent; small; solemn; son; sovereignty; spain; spanish; square; stadholder; states; statesgeneral; statesman; streets; strong; subject; synod; things; thought; time; town; treaty; troops; truce; united; utrecht; van; waartgelders; war; way; wife; william; work; world; years
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        item: #110 of 121
          id: 4896
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-19
        date: None
       words: 31179
      flesch: 63
     summary: And as if to make assurance doubly sure, the Articles of Union not only reserved to each province all powers not absolutely essential for carrying on the war in common, but by an express article (the 13th), declared that Holland and Zealand should regulate the matter of religion according to their own discretion, while the other provinces might conform to the provisions of the Religious Peace which included mutual protection for Catholics and Protestants--or take such other order as seemed most conducive to the religious and secular rights of the inhabitants. inculcating by himself and accomplices that each province had the right to regulate religious affairs within its own territory, and that other provinces were not to concern themselves therewith--therefore and for many other reasons he merited punishment.
    keywords: acts; advocate; aerssens; affairs; ambassador; ancient; answer; argument; arrest; articles; assembly; authority; barneveld; belief; berk; best; blood; board; brethren; burgomaster; business; case; certain; chamber; change; charges; children; church; churches; cities; city; civil; clergymen; commissioners; commonwealth; communication; company; confederacy; congregation; conscience; contra; council; country; course; creed; day; days; death; defence; desire; devoted; difficult; effect; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; europe; evidence; examination; excellency; fact; faithful; family; father; fatherland; foreign; france; french; friends; general; god; good; government; great; grotius; hague; half; hall; hands; head; heart; high; history; holland; hope; house; human; impossible; imprisonment; interrogatories; interview; james; john; judges; justice; king; language; later; law; laws; leave; ledenberg; legal; letter; leyden; liberty; life; like; little; living; long; lord; magistrates; majesty; man; master; matters; maurice; means; members; memory; moment; money; mutual; national; nature; necessary; netherlands; new; nobles; o'clock; oath; occasion; offence; official; old; opinion; opposed; orange; order; party; past; people; period; personal; place; points; political; portion; position; power; prayer; present; prince; prisoner; private; proceedings; property; provinces; public; puritans; ready; reformed; regard; religion; religious; remonstrants; republic; request; result; right; robinson; room; save; scheme; secret; sentence; servant; services; set; single; soldiers; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; speak; spirit; stadholder; states; statesman; subject; supreme; synod; system; things; thought; time; treason; treaty; trial; truce; union; united; utrecht; van; walaeus; war; wife; william; words; world; worship; writing; years
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        item: #111 of 121
          id: 4897
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1619-23
        date: None
       words: 19279
      flesch: 65
     summary: Referring to the bitter past, Maurice asked Madame de Barneveld why she not asked mercy for her son, having refused to do so for her husband. The chest, when opened, was found to contain the Seigneur de Stoutenburg, who in past times had laid the fiddler under obligations, and in whose house he now lay concealed for many days, and until the strictness with which all roads and ferries in the neighbourhood were watched at first had somewhat given way.
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        item: #112 of 121
          id: 4898
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23)
        date: None
       words: 133854
      flesch: 60
     summary: Most illustrious, high-born Prince, most gracious Lord, he said; obeying the commands which it has pleased the States and your princely Grace to give me, I send back the letters of Advocate Barneveld. The former adherent of plain Advocate Barneveld could hardly find superlatives enough to bestow upon the man whose displeasure that prisoner had incurred.
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complete; compromise; condition; conduct; confederacy; confidential; conflict; congregation; conscience; considerable; conspiracy; constitution; continued; contra; contrary; control; controversy; conversation; convinced; correspondence; council; counsel; countries; country; course; court; creed; crime; crown; daatselaer; daily; danger; dangerous; daughter; day; days; dead; deadly; death; decided; decision; deep; defence; delay; departure; deputies; designs; desire; destruction; determined; devoted; differences; different; difficult; dignity; diplomatic; direct; disposed; disposition; dispute; dissensions; divine; door; double; doubt; duchies; dutch; duty; dyk; early; earth; easy; ecclesiastical; effect; efforts; election; elector; elsje; emperor; empire; enemies; enemy; england; english; enlisted; entire; envoy; epoch; escape; europe; evening; events; evil; excellency; excited; execution; existence; expense; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faithful; fall; familiar; family; famous; 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        item: #113 of 121
          id: 4899
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623)
        date: None
       words: 254773
      flesch: 60
     summary: Let that be done which is so much desired by the United Provinces and other great enemies and rivals of your Majesty, and what security will there be that the same Provinces will not again attempt the same invasion? They found the King seated on his throne in the audience chamber, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Lord High Treasurer and Lord High Admiral, the Duke of Lenox, the Earls of Arundel and Northampton, and many other great nobles and dignitaries.
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        item: #114 of 121
          id: 5133
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Quotations from John L. Motley Works
        date: None
       words: 36656
      flesch: -41
     summary: He was property Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign Maritime heretics Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for Matters little by what name a government is called Meet around a green table except as fencers in the field Men who meant what they said and said what they meant Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity Mendacity may always obtain over innocence and credulity Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into sincerity Mondragon was now ninety-two years old Moral nature, undergoes less change than might be hoped More catholic than the pope 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 tendency to suspicion of a timid man Necessity of kingship Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch Negotiated as if they were all immortal Neighbour's blazing roof was likely soon to fire their own Never did statesmen know better how not to do Never peace well made, he observed, without a mighty war 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 retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs, and buildings No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence Not many more than two hundred Catholics were executed Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained facts Not distinguished for their docility Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep nor crouch Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names Nothing cheap, said a citizen bitterly, but sermons Nothing could equal Alexander's fidelity, but his perfidy Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers Obscure were thought capable of dying natural deaths Octogenarian was past work and past mischief Often necessary to be blind and deaf One-third of Philip's effective navy was thus destroyed One could neither cry nor laugh within the Spanish dominions One of the most contemptible and mischievous of kings (James I) 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)
    keywords: advice; age; alive; apt; argument; army; authority; bad; barneveld; bear; best; better; bigotry; blood; bribe; burning; calumny; capable; capacity; cause; century; character; children; christian; church; civil; civil war; common; condition; conscience; consumption; country; courage; creatures; creed; crime; dangerous; day; dead; death; debts; desire; despair; destruction; devil; dissimulation; distinguished; divine; dust; dutch republic; emperor; enemies; enemy; england; english; entire; equal; erasmus; fear; fellow; find; fire; force; france; free; freedom; french; friend; future; general; generation; german; god; good; government; great; great man; great republic; great war; half; hand; hatred; henry; heresy; heretics; highest; history united; holland; hope; house; human; idea; ignorance; ignorant; industry; infallibility; infinite; injured; inquisition; insult; intolerable; james; john; justice; king; lack; law; liberty; life; like; little; little republic; logic; long; luther; man; man alive; mankind; matters; men; mischievous; moment; money; motley; nations; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; new; non; old; open; orthodox; papists; party; past; peace; people; perpetual; persecution; persons; petty; philip; pope; possible; power; price; priests; principle; private; privilege; profit; provinces; puritans; queen; ready; reign; religion; religious; right; rise; roman; royal; self; sin; sincere; single; slaves; small; soldiers; spain; spanish; spirit; state; strength; successful; sword; system; tendency; things; thought; time; toleration; true; true religion; truth; tyranny; tyrant; united netherlands; unproductive; usual; victims; violence; virtue; war; war peace; waters; wealth; women; words; work; world; worst; wrath; wrong; years
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        item: #115 of 121
          id: 51716
      author: Massart, Jean
       title: Belgians Under the German Eagle
        date: None
       words: 104004
      flesch: 65
     summary: For, firstly, the soldiers were not posted on an Hôtel de Ville; secondly, they were not even posted _on_ the Palais de Justice, but to one side of it, as may easily be determined on the spot; thirdly, German soldiers have never been placed there to overlook an enemy! Belgian women have cut the throats of German soldiers quartered on them while they slept.... _Journal de la Guerre_ (an organ of German propaganda).
    keywords: --|; 10th; 11th; 12th; 13th; 15th; 16th; 18th; 19th; 1st; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; 25th; 26th; 27th; 28th; 29th; 2nd; 30th; 4th; 6th; 7th; 9th; able; account; accusations; action; acts; administration; adversaries; allies; american; andenne; anniversary; antwerp; appeal; april; arlon; arms; article; artillery; assertion; assistance; atrocities; attack; attempt; attention; attitude; august; authority; bank; baron; battle; beginning; belge; belgian; belgian army; belgian government; belgian soldiers; belgique; belgium; berlin; berliner; bien; bissing; bombardment; book; brabant; bread; british; broken; brothers; brussels; buildings; bullets; bureau; burgomaster; burning; campaign; capable; capital; captain; cardinal; cards; care; case; cathedral; catholic; censorship; certain; chancellor; chapter; character; charleroi; chief; children; church; churches; circumstances; citizens; city; civic; civilians; clergy; closed; coast; colours; commandant; commander; commission; committed; common; communal; commune; communication; communiqués; compatriots; complete; conduct; conflict; content; contrary; contributions; convention; copy; correspondence; council; countries; country; courant; course; crime; critical; cross; cruelties; cruelty; curé; cynicism; daily; damage; danger; date; day; days; dead; death; december; declaration; decree; defence; destruction; details; deutsche; different; difficult; dinant; direction; dirigible; display; district; documents; doubt; dutch; duty; edition; emperor; empire; employment; enemies; enemy; engagements; england; english; escape; established; europe; evening; example; excuse; execution; eyes; fact; false; families; family; far; fashion; fate; father; february; feelings; fellow; field; fighting; fine; fire; firing; flag; flanders; flemings; flemish; following; food; forbidden; force; foreign; fortress; forts; francs; free; french; fresh; frontier; frs; gand; general; german; german administration; german army; german authorities; german censorship; german general; german government; german mentality; german military; german minister; german newspapers; german officer; german people; german prisoners; german soldiers; german time; german troops; german war; god; goltz; good; governor; gratitude; great; grey; ground; guard; guerre; guilty; guns; hague; half; hand; herr; holland; honour; hope; hostages; houses; hundreds; hôtel; idea; illegal; illustrated; important; impression; imprisonment; infantry; information; informed; inhabitants; innocent; innumerable; inquiry; intellectuals; interesting; international; introduction; invasion; issue; january; journal; journey; july; june; justice; k.z; kaiser; kind; king; known; krieg; kultur; kölnische; l'ami; l'ordre; lack; language; large; later; law; laws; leaders; leave; left; letter; liberty; lies; life; like; little; living; liége; localities; locality; london; long; longer; lost; louvain; lying; machine; malines; manifesto; manner; march; marks; massacre; material; matter; max; means; measures; members; mentality; mention; mercier; method; midst; military; millions; mind; minister; moment; money; mons; month; monuments; moral; morning; munitions; n.r.c; names; namur; national; nations; nature; near; necessary; necessity; need; neighbourhood; neighbouring; neutrality; newspapers; nieuwe; non; normal; north; note; notice; november; number; numerous; o'clock; object; observation; obvious; occasion; occupation; occupied; october; officer; official; open; operations; opinion; order; organization; origin; outset; p.m.; palais; pamphlets; paragraph; paris; pastoral; patriotism; pay; penalties; penalty; people; persons; photographs; picture; placard; place; plan; point; police; political; poor; population; portion; portraits; position; possible; post; prepared; present; president; press; pretended; pretext; previous; pride; priests; prisoners; private; procedure; proclamation; prohibition; promise; proof; propaganda; propagandist; property; protection; province; provisions; public; publication; punishment; question; railway; reader; ready; real; reason; red; reichstag; relations; relief; remark; reply; report; reprisals; requisitions; respect; responsible; result; return; rifle; right; royal; sale; save; science; second; secret; sense; september; series; service; set; severe; shells; shops; shot; siege; sign; sincerity; single; situation; small; special; speech; spies; spirit; spite; staff; statement; states; station; story; streets; subject; sunday; support; switzerland; taking; task; tax; telegram; telegraph; telephone; termonde; territory; text; thanks; thing; thought; thousands; time; tireurs; torture; tower; town; traffic; trains; translation; treatment; true; truth; ultimatum; unhappy; united; usual; value; victims; village; ville; violation; von; war; wearing; weeks; windows; wine; witnesses; women; word; work; workers; working; wounded; years; young; yser; zeitung; | |
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        item: #116 of 121
          id: 54314
      author: Pike, Joseph
       title: Bruges: A Sketch-Book
        date: None
       words: 209
      flesch: 74
     summary: The Belfry and Grand Place (title page) 2 Cathedrale St. Sauveur from Place Simon Stevin 3 St. John's Hospital 4 Hotel Gruuthuse and Pont St Boniface 5 Notre Dame 6 Notre Dame Tower from Rue Puits aux oies 7 Quai du Rosaire 8 Rue de L'Ane Aveugle 9 Pont du Cheval 10 The Quai Vert 11 Hotel de Ville and Chapelle du St. Sang 12 Pont des Augustins 13 Porte de Marechaux 14 Tour St. Sebastian and the English Convent 15 The Entrance to the Beguinage 16 The Minnewater. [Illustration: Hotel de Ville and Chapelle du St. Sang]
    keywords: illustration; pont
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        item: #117 of 121
          id: 6776
      author: Schiller, Friedrich
       title: History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 01
        date: None
       words: 29711
      flesch: 57
     summary: A man like this might at other times have remained unfathomed by his whole generation; but not so by the distrustful spirit of the age in which he lived. Spain itself had but few more men to spare.
    keywords: administration; affairs; aim; ambition; antwerp; arbitrary; armies; arms; army; arts; attention; austria; authority; battle; belgian; better; blood; body; bold; book; brabant; brussels; burgundian; burgundy; cause; centuries; century; character; charles; choice; christian; church; citizen; civil; command; commerce; commercial; common; confidence; conquest; constitution; contest; contrary; council; countries; country; courage; course; court; crown; customs; dangerous; day; death; degree; despotism; different; duchess; duke; early; east; edicts; egmont; emperor; empire; enemy; english; enlightened; europe; execution; existence; faith; father; favor; fear; field; flanders; flemish; flourishing; force; foreign; foreigners; form; france; free; freedom; french; friesland; fruits; general; genius; germany; ghent; gold; golden; good; government; great; greater; greatness; hands; hanseatic; happy; higher; history; holland; honor; hope; house; human; important; independent; individual; industry; influence; inquisition; instruments; introduction; italian; italy; justice; king; known; language; laws; league; left; liberties; liberty; life; little; long; longer; love; majesty; man; manners; margaret; market; marks; master; maximilian; measure; merchants; mind; moment; monarch; nation; native; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; netherlands; new; nobility; nobles; north; number; numerous; oath; occasion; ocean; office; open; opinion; oppression; orange; order; original; parma; peace; peculiar; people; person; philip; policy; political; portion; power; powerful; presence; present; pride; prince; principal; private; privileges; prosperity; provinces; rebellion; rebels; regent; religion; religious; republic; resources; respect; revolution; rhine; rights; roman; royal; ruler; sacred; schiller; sea; secret; ships; single; soil; solemn; son; soul; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; state; strength; subject; superior; support; supreme; terrible; thought; throne; ties; time; towns; trade; tribunal; troops; truth; tyrant; union; united; valuable; vessels; virtue; wants; war; wars; wealth; william; works; world; years; yoke
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        item: #118 of 121
          id: 6777
      author: Schiller, Friedrich
       title: History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
        date: None
       words: 23156
      flesch: 54
     summary: Granvella possessed all the qualities requisite for a perfect statesman in a monarchy governed by despotic principles, but was absolutely unqualified for republics which are governed by kings. So long as the highest power should be entrusted to him it would, they declared, be impossible for them to serve the nation and king effectually; on the other hand, all would revert to its former tranquillity, all opposition be discontinued, and the government regain the affections of the people as soon as his majesty should be pleased to remove this man from the helm of the state.
    keywords: administration; advantage; affairs; aid; ambition; answer; antwerp; authority; bishops; brabant; brussels; business; cardinal; case; change; character; charles; church; citizens; commission; common; conduct; confidence; constitution; contempt; council; counsellors; count; country; crown; death; decrees; duke; duties; duty; edicts; effect; egmont; emperor; evil; example; execution; expedient; extraordinary; faction; faith; far; father; favor; fear; feelings; flemish; force; france; freedom; gain; general; good; government; governors; granvella; great; greater; hand; hatred; heresy; heretics; hitherto; honor; important; indispensable; influence; inquisition; interests; justice; king; letter; liberty; life; like; little; long; longer; madrid; majesty; malines; man; master; means; measures; members; mind; minister; moment; monarch; nation; necessary; necessity; netherlands; new; nobility; nobles; number; obedience; object; old; open; opinion; opposition; orange; order; parties; party; passions; people; person; philip; place; policy; possible; power; powerful; present; president; prince; private; privy; protestants; provinces; rebellion; regent; religion; religious; representations; republic; respect; rights; rome; romish; royal; secret; small; sovereign; spain; spanish; spirit; state; subject; sufficient; support; synod; throne; time; town; trent; troops; true; united; universal; viglius; voice; william; years; zeal
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        item: #119 of 121
          id: 6778
      author: Schiller, Friedrich
       title: History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 03
        date: None
       words: 17111
      flesch: 54
     summary: Besides these two, there were others also from among the most illustrious of the Flemish nobles the young Count Charles of Mansfeld, a son of that nobleman whom we have found among the most zealous royalists; the Count Kinlemburg; two Counts of Bergen and of Battenburg; John of Marnix, Baron of Toulouse; Philip of Marnix, Baron of St. Aldegonde; with several others who joined the league, which, about the middle of November, in the year 1565, was formed at the house of Von Hammes, king at arms of the Golden Fleece. But what need to go to pagan antiquity for guidance and example when we have near at hand the glorious precedent of Charles V., the greatest of kings, who taught at last by experience, abandoned the bloody path of persecution, and for many years before his abdication adopted milder measures.
    keywords: advice; affairs; answer; antwerp; arms; assembly; baron; bergen; better; bishops; body; brederode; brussels; cause; circumstances; complaints; confederates; consent; council; counsellors; count; country; courage; covenant; day; death; demands; distrust; duchess; edicts; effect; egmont; end; enterprise; example; far; favorable; fear; force; form; freedom; french; friends; general; good; government; great; greater; gueux; hands; hatred; head; hearts; highness; honor; horn; house; important; inquisition; king; knights; known; league; liberty; little; long; louis; madrid; means; measures; meeting; megen; members; mind; mitigation; moderation; moment; montigny; nassau; nation; necessary; need; netherlands; new; nobility; nobles; numbers; occasion; opinions; orange; order; party; people; persons; petition; philip; place; point; power; powerful; present; prince; protestants; provinces; public; question; ready; reason; rebellion; regent; religion; religious; report; roman; rumor; second; senate; service; share; short; similar; sovereign; spain; spanish; state; step; support; time; town; truth; zeal
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        item: #120 of 121
          id: 6779
      author: Schiller, Friedrich
       title: History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04
        date: None
       words: 54707
      flesch: 57
     summary: The same acts of violence were practised also in the islands of Zealand; the town of Utrecht and many places in Overyssel and Groningen suffered the same storms. Upon the narrow ridge of the dam, which in many places was not more than nine paces broad, about five thousand combatants were fighting; so confined was the spot upon which the strength of both armies was assembled, and which was to decide the whole issue of the siege.
    keywords: able; account; advantage; alarm; aldegonde; alva; ambassadors; amsterdam; antwerp; appearance; approach; aremberg; arms; army; arrival; attack; attempt; authority; batteries; battery; battle; belgian; bergen; besieged; best; better; bishop; boats; body; brabant; brederode; brethren; bridge; brussels; calvinists; camp; catholic; cause; certain; character; churches; circumstances; citizens; city; cloisters; close; command; common; conduct; confederates; confidence; consent; council; count; country; courage; course; dam; danger; dangerous; day; days; death; defence; deputies; destruction; determined; different; difficulty; disposed; doubt; duchess; duke; edicts; effect; egmont; end; enemies; enemy; escape; evil; example; execution; eyes; faith; fate; favor; fear; fire; flanders; fleet; flight; force; foreign; formidable; fortifications; fortune; france; free; friends; fury; future; garrison; gates; general; germany; ghent; good; government; governor; great; greater; gueux; guilty; hands; having; head; heart; high; hitherto; hogstraten; honor; hope; horn; houses; iconoclasts; important; inhabitants; injury; intelligence; journey; justice; king; large; lay; league; leave; left; letters; liberty; life; like; lillo; little; long; longer; loss; lost; magistrate; mansfeld; march; master; means; measures; megen; members; military; mind; mob; moment; money; nassau; nation; natural; nay; near; necessary; necessity; netherlands; new; night; nobility; nobles; noircarmes; number; numerous; oath; object; occasion; officers; open; opinion; opportunity; orange; order; outbreak; paces; parma; particular; parties; party; passage; past; pay; people; person; philip; pieces; place; plan; point; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; preachers; preparations; presence; present; prince; prisoners; private; privileges; proceedings; property; protestants; provinces; public; punishment; purpose; quarters; rapid; ready; rebellion; rebels; regent; religion; religious; report; result; rights; river; roman; royal; safety; said; sail; scaffold; scheldt; sea; secret; secretary; secure; security; sentence; service; severity; share; ships; short; sides; siege; similar; single; small; soldiers; sovereign; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; spot; state; stream; strong; subjects; submission; success; sufficient; supplies; support; suspicion; terms; terrible; thought; thoulouse; tide; time; town; troops; vain; valenciennes; vessels; viceroy; view; viglius; violence; visit; von; walls; war; water; way; work; worship; years; zealand
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        item: #121 of 121
          id: 7552
      author: Motley, John Lothrop
       title: Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands
        date: None
       words: 8991
      flesch: -58
     summary: 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 Of that, although always a spendthrift And now the knife of another priest-led fanatic And thus this gentle and heroic spirit took its flight Angle with their dissimulation as with a hook Announced his approaching marriage with the Virgin Mary Annual harvest of iniquity by which his revenue was increased Anxiety to do nothing wrong, the senators did nothing at all Are apt to discharge such obligations-- (by) ingratitude Are wont to hang their piety on the bell-rope Argument in a circle Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise begins Aristocracy of God's elect Arminianism Arrested on suspicion, tortured till confession Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not avail them Artillery As logical as men in their cups are prone to be As the old woman had told the Emperor Adrian As if they were free will not make them free As lieve see the Spanish as the Calvinistic inquisition As ready as papists, with age, fagot, and excommunication As with his own people, keeping no back-door open As neat a deception by telling the truth At a blow decapitated France At length the twig was becoming the tree Atheist, a tyrant, because he resisted dictation from the clergy Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised religion Attacked by the poetic mania Attacking the authority of the pope Attempting to swim in two waters Auction sales of judicial ermine Baiting his hook a little to his appetite Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon Batavian legion was the imperial body guard Beacons in the upward path of mankind Beating the Netherlanders into Christianity Beautiful damsel, who certainly did not lack suitors Because he had been successful (hated) Becoming more learned, and therefore more ignorant Been already crimination and recrimination more than enough Before morning they had sacked thirty churches Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand Beggars of the sea, as these privateersmen designated themselves Behead, torture, burn alive, and bury alive all heretics Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies Believed in the blessed advent of peace Beneficent and charitable purposes (War) best defence in this case is little better than an impeachment Bestowing upon others what was not his property Better to be governed by magistrates than mobs Better is the restlessness of a noble ambition Beware of a truce even more than of a peace Bigotry which was the prevailing characteristic of the age Bishop is a consecrated pirate Blessed freedom from speech-making Blessing of God upon the Devil's work Bold reformer had only a new dogma in place of the old ones Bomb-shells were not often used although known for a century Breath, time, and paper were profusely wasted and nothing gained Brethren, parents, and children, having wives in common Bribed the Deity Bungling diplomatists and credulous dotards Burned, strangled, beheaded, or buried alive (100,000) Burned alive if they objected to transubstantiation Burning with bitter revenge for all the favours he had received Burning of Servetus at Geneva Business of an officer to fight, of a general to conquer But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate
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