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mounted on thin legs. Nature had no
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eard. His service in camps has bron
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colourless almost as the marble. Th
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Chapter 5 Philip Arranges the Gover
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egan straightway to blaze. The fire
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established a court in Flanders tha
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intensified the alarm and anger of
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four to seventeen. This was a formi
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classes. The hierarchy had been sud
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day. Discontent was ripening into r
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ut as he could not speak the tongue
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would withdraw the Spanish troops,
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efore the convention broke up. A fo
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skillful and industrious subjects o
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Chapter 6 Storms in the Council, an
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uled the Netherlands. Margaret had
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which had been constructed for carr
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as the Stadtholders of important Pr
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continued in force Philip must have
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unless he gave rigorous execution t
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conspicuous monster, Peter Titleman
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opening, and I see ten hundred thou
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to the inquisitors he said, "Ask me
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gave me my bellyful of victuals." W
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thereafter they were conducted to t
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that broke the power of Spain, and
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promising to rescue them should an
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y his agents. The bickerings still
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idiculed him in their farces, laugh
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the members of Council, but less ob
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spreading. The three seigniors wrot
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since permitted this somewhat compl
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of sinners by faith alone, on the r
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did not enter into their minds that
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ut I contend for the liberty of ado
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jurisdiction, that fairly interpret
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Reformer of Geneva, and permitting
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Chapter 8 The Rising Storm THE card
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Waxing yet bolder, at a meeting of
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entirely subservient to the regent.
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might accord them some freedom in m
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now in use did not serve their end,
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delivered over the inhabitants of t
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y remonstrances and outcries from t
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the "most Catholic king." The plea
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could not have been more astounded
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Europe. Should Philip succeed in so
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very great sum; the said Lord of Gu
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Footnotes: 1. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 1
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Tully, De Legibus, in his youth, th
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Inquisition, "that most pernicious
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one to whom she could safely entrus
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Confederacy were now hurling agains
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for all those in the Netherlands wh
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mouth the first verse of the twenty
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Chapter 10 The Field-preachings THE
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Oudenard. "This man," says a Popish
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emained for the same space of time,
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of the authorities had broken out,
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Grange was this day to occupy the p
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was childless. He had been a monk,
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eloquent preachers and erudite divi
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of the forenoon; the excitement on
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lightning-power of his words held h
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asked them whether they would suppo
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afterwards see, chose to consider t
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complete success. As they marched o
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destroying host the words of the pr
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the pencil. The crowning glory of A
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device which they thought would gui
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within the walls of Antwerp, having
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their own exit, locking the great d
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only, it extended to the other chur
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or that others fed their eyes with
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the taking away and destroying of i
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the clergy in many cases were relie
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Nor can the destruction of these im
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grand disruptions of the bonds of a
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18. Motley, 1., 282. 19. Hooft, lib
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see that the Reformed did not come
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great weight of his personal charac
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ead one way in Brussels, it was mad
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the Inquisition abolished, as the k
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of the inhabitants of that importan
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dispensing the Sacraments. Garrison
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and Noircarmes now commenced to bom
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cheerfully to meet it as if they ha
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igotry had made hard as the nether
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whose very symbols it had so recent
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Chapter 13 The Council of Blood "WH
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Dendermonde, in order to concert th
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of the persecutors to apprehend and
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fellowship:[3] they were sisters ev
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quenched the fire of his spirit. In
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of the mountains to Savoy. Continui
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delay, opened his career of tyranny
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now made compelled 20,000 more to f
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said or thought that the Tribunal o
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All was now ready; Alva had erected
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disappoint the expectations of the
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should aid any subject of the Nethe
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6. Strada, bk. 6., p. 30. Le Clerq,
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were confiscated, and sentence of b
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His first care was to raise the nec
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for the war to be waged for these o
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us march," said Aremberg, his anger
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were now come. They had lain nine m
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was covered with black cloth; ninet
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The dismal tragedy ended, Alva was
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Chapter 15 Failure of William's Fir
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way of paying it, for when the effe
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women were being every day hanged -
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spoken in circumstances so awful, a
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hope of his country -- when he avow
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ecame mutinous, and the prince had
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enacted.[6] It was in the midst of
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4. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 275. 5. Ibid
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him only the more intolerant and fi
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that one-half their value had passe
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The carrying out of this order nece
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escape; but unhappily the burgomast
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might whisper a few words of encour
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the defense of the Reformed religio
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whom William himself should grant c
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opened her harbours to Flemish pira
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fighting with the inhabitants about
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Spaniards. Bossu led his troops tow
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(April 12th), the Lord's Supper was
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thorn out of his foot," the conflag
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we find their great leader remindin
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themselves as at one with the princ
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Chapter 17 William's Second Campaig
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of 16,000 ducats. Tirlemont, Termon
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were watering with their blood and
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the gallows; murder and spoliation
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Antwerp, to be converted into money
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eduction of the revolted towns in t
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espected an oath nor spared an enem
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Holland should be waging its great
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with a salutary terror of his arms,
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Chapter 18 The Siege of Haarlem BOT
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emboldened to do soldiers' duty at
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ditch and deliver the assault. Gree
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label affixed: -- "The tax of the t
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implements, mixed horribly with the
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mangled and mutilated bodies. The S
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defend their city. Meanwhile they g
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neither men nor provisions could no
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expedition William wished to conduc
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would be spared and all in it pardo
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the amnesty were, of course, execut
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triumph of his cause; and without a
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4. Hooft, 7. 293. 5. Ibid. 6. Thaun
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population divided between the prin
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storm. They advanced. in overwhelmi
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afternoon; it was now seven o'clock
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efore the ocean. The humiliations o
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de Medina Coeli, governor in his ro
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eginning that the policy of Alva ha
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celebration in private of the Romis
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deprivation of his civil rights on
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ight to repel it by the sword; if i
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collected, a fleet of seventy-five
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uilt such great hopes. When the sec
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Spaniards that they feared to do so
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felt all the more at this moment, s
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een done, and their achievements ac
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were sinking with their crews, and
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time of the siege the city had a nu
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he found it so hard to win by the s
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Chapter 21 The Siege of Leyden FOR
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Putting their spades into the great
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meet, but they never dreamt of havi
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famine, nor pestilence, nor death a
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everywhere without success. The Zea
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their torches and lanterns, they fl
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wind shifted into the north-east, a
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Spaniard was still in the land, and
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to obtain from the justice of Phili
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Jesus."[2] A few guides well acquai
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Duyveland. So far this most extraor
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had not a single guelden to send th
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pleasure. The State Council, into w
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the citadel, with its garrison. The
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were struggling in the area below.
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een the gayest and wealthiest upon
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which is at once the consequence an
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to all offices; he disposed of all
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just as the Popish Powers had been
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Medici-Valois house that ruled that
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of the devil;" whilst another Luthe
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honor of a common country, and to e
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Provinces were to be finally regula
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Batavin Republic, placed them on th
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crept in along with the new territo
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Utrecht," which, without dissolving
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such lofty spirits as William, and
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he found himself in possession of t
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This was the third time that libert
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his country. He accepted Matthias,
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considerable army from the neighbor
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who has taken up arms against him,
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conveyed to the river's edge, the m
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Prince of Orange in Brussels, and t
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the Provinces, and possibly the dis
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and Zealand, where the Popish worsh
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eceived an augmentation of strength
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2. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 333 3. Benti
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Chapter 25 Abjuration of Philip, an
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Provinces, and restore the supremac
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States of Holland, Zealand, Utrecht
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those that shed their brilliance on
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to this proposal. They would agree
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of his debts, the restitution of hi
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and make him a mark for all the mur
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not of one nor of a few of those li
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This Apology was read in a meeting
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deposed, especially by virtue of th
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so awful and protracted a combat; i
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Chapter 26 Assassination of William
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Medici. The Duke of Anjou, the elec
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Brabant and Flanders came to the Pr
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ear on this narrow and obscure thea
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him in his hours of darkness and so
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and insignificant exterior, had tha
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three balls, one of which passed th
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straight on through all the intrica
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which there is a copy in the Royal
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Scriptures are being searched; it i
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that threatened speedily to make th
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into one channel, and forms hencefo
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principal kinds: 1. That of Pastors
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objections have been offered -- at
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leprosy quickly extends to the Stat
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They were to be selected from their
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government of the country. But in t
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duty, they said, was "to hinder tho
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acknowledgement. Nevertheless, he r
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estored; there was still war betwee
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latter is regulated by law. The Pop
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Roman Catholic Provinces -- in all
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This state of matters led to the ad
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substitute for worship, or which it
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statues some springs had been found
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Chapter 29 The Synod of Dort WILLIA
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panic were over, the spirit of the
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The infant States next repaired to
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accomplish nothing. His prudence fa
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industry and manufacturing skill wh
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made this attempt. There have been
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After his death, his disciple Simon
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own fault, and lose faith wholly an
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Carlstadt and Luther on the other,
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the State, strove to put an end to
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Carleton, Bishop of Llandaff; Josep
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time, that himself and his brethren
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it had been held by the first Refor
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into deep and hidden things; it was
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engenders, made their homes bright
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the States, after asserting their o
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upon that colossal fabric which for
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that his own prestige as a soldier
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example that they will take care to
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And with every increase of their po
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Peninsula, whereas in the Southern
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Footnotes: 1. Muller, Universal His