ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS 1584-1609, COMPLETE

A hard bargain when both parties are losers

A penal offence in the republic to talk of peace or of truce

A despot really keeps no accounts, nor need to do so

A free commonwealth—was thought an absurdity

A burnt cat fears the fire

A pusillanimous peace, always possible at any period

A man incapable of fatigue, of perplexity, or of fear

A sovereign remedy for the disease of liberty

A truce he honestly considered a pitfall of destruction

Able men should be by design and of purpose suppressed

About equal to that of England at the same period

Abstinence from unproductive consumption

Accepting a new tyrant in place of the one so long ago deposed

Accustomed to the faded gallantries

Act of Uniformity required Papists to assist

Alas! we must always have something to persecute

Alas! the benighted victims of superstition hugged their chains

Alexander's exuberant discretion

All fellow-worms together

All business has been transacted with open doors

All Italy was in his hands

All the ministers and great functionaries received presents

Allow her to seek a profit from his misfortune

An unjust God, himself the origin of sin

Anarchy which was deemed inseparable from a non-regal form

Anatomical study of what has ceased to exist

And thus this gentle and heroic spirit took its flight

Are wont to hang their piety on the bell-rope

Argument is exhausted and either action or compromise begins

Arminianism

Artillery

As logical as men in their cups are prone to be

As if they were free will not make them free

As neat a deception by telling the truth

As lieve see the Spanish as the Calvinistic inquisition

At length the twig was becoming the tree

Auction sales of judicial ermine

Baiting his hook a little to his appetite

Beacons in the upward path of mankind

Because he had been successful (hated)

Been already crimination and recrimination more than enough

Began to scatter golden arguments with a lavish hand

Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies

Beneficent and charitable purposes (War)

Bestowing upon others what was not his property

Beware of a truce even more than of a peace

Bomb-shells were not often used although known for a century

Bungling diplomatists and credulous dotards

Burning of Servetus at Geneva

But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate

Butchery in the name of Christ was suspended

By turns, we all govern and are governed

Calling a peace perpetual can never make it so

Canker of a long peace

Cargo of imaginary gold dust was exported from the James River

Casting up the matter "as pinchingly as possibly might be"

Certain number of powers, almost exactly equal to each other

Certainly it was worth an eighty years' war

Chief seafaring nations of the world were already protestant

Chieftains are dwarfed in the estimation of followers

Children who had never set foot on the shore

Chronicle of events must not be anticipated

College of "peace-makers," who wrangled more than all

Conceding it subsequently, after much contestation

Conceit, and procrastination which marked the royal character

Condemned first and inquired upon after

Conformity of Governments to the principles of justice

Considerable reason, even if there were but little justice

Constant vigilance is the price of liberty

Constitute themselves at once universal legatees

Contempt for treaties however solemnly ratified

Continuing to believe himself invincible and infallible

Converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling

Could do a little more than what was possible

Could handle an argument as well as a sword

Courage and semblance of cheerfulness, with despair in his heart

Court fatigue, to scorn pleasure

Crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could imagine

Culpable audacity and exaggerated prudence

Deal with his enemy as if sure to become his friend

Decline a bribe or interfere with the private sale of places

Defeated garrison ever deserved more respect from friend or foe

Defect of enjoying the flattery, of his inferiors in station

Delay often fights better than an army against a foreign invader

Demanding peace and bread at any price

Despised those who were grateful

Diplomacy of Spain and Rome—meant simply dissimulation

Diplomatic adroitness consists mainly in the power to deceive

Disciple of Simon Stevinus

Dismay of our friends and the gratification of our enemies

Disordered, and unknit state needs no shaking, but propping

Disposed to throat-cutting by the ministers of the Gospel

Divine right of kings

Do you want peace or war? I am ready for either

Done nothing so long as aught remained to do

Draw a profit out of the necessities of this state

During this, whole war, we have never seen the like

Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and therefore persecuting

Eat their own children than to forego one high mass

Elizabeth, though convicted, could always confute

Elizabeth (had not) the faintest idea of religious freedom

Eloquence of the biggest guns

England hated the Netherlands

Englishmen and Hollanders preparing to cut each other's throats

Enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists

Even the virtues of James were his worst enemies

Even to grant it slowly is to deny it utterly

Ever met disaster with so cheerful a smile

Every one sees what you seem, few perceive what you are

Evil is coming, the sooner it arrives the better

Evil has the advantage of rapidly assuming many shapes

Exorcising the devil by murdering his supposed victims

Faction has rarely worn a more mischievous aspect

Famous fowl in every pot

Fed on bear's liver, were nearly poisoned to death

Fellow worms had been writhing for half a century in the dust

Find our destruction in our immoderate desire for peace

Fitter to obey than to command

Five great rivers hold the Netherland territory in their coils

Fled from the land of oppression to the land of liberty

Fool who useth not wit because he hath it not

For his humanity towards the conquered garrisons (censured)

For us, looking back upon the Past, which was then the Future

Forbidding the wearing of mourning at all

Foremost to shake off the fetters of superstition

Four weeks' holiday—the first in eleven years

French seem madmen, and are wise

Friendly advice still more intolerable

Full of precedents and declamatory commonplaces

Future world as laid down by rival priesthoods

German Highland and the German Netherland

German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea of religious freedom

Gigantic vices are proudly pointed to as the noblest

God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of injustice

God alone can protect us against those whom we trust

God of wrath who had decreed the extermination of all unbeliever

God, whose cause it was, would be pleased to give good weather

Gold was the only passkey to justice

Gomarites accused the Arminians of being more lax than Papists

Guilty of no other crime than adhesion to the Catholic faith

Had industry been honoured instead of being despised

Haereticis non servanda fides

Hanging of Mary Dyer at Boston

Hangman is not the most appropriate teacher of religion

Hard at work, pouring sand through their sieves

Hardly an inch of French soil that had not two possessors

Hardly a distinguished family in Spain not placed in mourning

He often spoke of popular rights with contempt

He did his work, but he had not his reward

He who confessed well was absolved well

He spent more time at table than the Bearnese in sleep

He sat a great while at a time. He had a genius for sitting

Henry the Huguenot as the champion of the Council of Trent

Her teeth black, her bosom white and liberally exposed (Eliz.)

Heretics to the English Church were persecuted

Hibernian mode of expressing himself

High officers were doing the work of private, soldiers

Highest were not necessarily the least slimy

His invectives were, however, much stronger than his arguments

His own past triumphs seemed now his greatest enemies

His insolence intolerable

His inordinate arrogance

Historical scepticism may shut its eyes to evidence

History is but made up of a few scattered fragments

History is a continuous whole of which we see only fragments

Holland was afraid to give a part, although offering the whole

Holy institution called the Inquisition

Honor good patriots, and to support them in venial errors

Hugo Grotius

Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds)

Humanizing effect of science upon the barbarism of war

Humble ignorance as the safest creed

Humility which was but the cloak to his pride

Hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by her decree

I will never live, to see the end of my poverty

I am a king that will be ever known not to fear any but God

I did never see any man behave himself as he did

Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations

Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation

Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging, filching vagabonds

If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good to do

Ignorance is the real enslaver of mankind

Imagining that they held the world's destiny in their hands

Imposed upon the multitudes, with whom words were things

Impossible it was to invent terms of adulation too gross

Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed brains

In times of civil war, to be neutral is to be nothing

Individuals walking in advance of their age

Indulging them frequently with oracular advice

Inevitable fate of talking castles and listening ladies

Infamy of diplomacy, when diplomacy is unaccompanied by honesty

Infinite capacity for pecuniary absorption

Inhabited by the savage tribes called Samoyedes

Innocent generation, to atone for the sins of their forefathers

Inquisitors enough; but there were no light vessels in The Armada

Insensible to contumely, and incapable of accepting a rebuff

Intelligence, science, and industry were accounted degrading

Intentions of a government which did not know its own intentions

Intolerable tendency to puns

Invaluable gift which no human being can acquire, authority

Invincible Armada had not only been vanquished but annihilated

It is certain that the English hate us (Sully)

John Castel, who had stabbed Henry IV.

John Wier, a physician of Grave

Justified themselves in a solemn consumption of time

King had issued a general repudiation of his debts

King was often to be something much less or much worse

Labour was esteemed dishonourable

Languor of fatigue, rather than any sincere desire for peace

Leading motive with all was supposed to be religion

Life of nations and which we call the Past

Little army of Maurice was becoming the model for Europe

Logic of the largest battalions

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

Look for a sharp war, or a miserable peace

Looking down upon her struggle with benevolent indifference

Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns

Loud, nasal, dictatorial tone, not at all agreeable

Loving only the persons who flattered him

Luxury had blunted the fine instincts of patriotism

Made peace—and had been at war ever since

Magnificent hopefulness

Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you

Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom

Man had no rights at all 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)

Only citadel against a tyrant and a conqueror was distrust

Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren in facts

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

Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the memory

Past was once the Present, and once the Future

Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea

Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands of law

Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)

Peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate

Peace seemed only a process for arriving at war

Peace founded on the only secure basis, equality of strength

Peace would be destruction

Peace-at-any-price party

Peace was unattainable, war was impossible, truce was inevitable

Philip II. gave the world work enough

Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable

Picturesqueness of crime

Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat

Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes ridiculous

Portion of these revenues savoured much of black-mail

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

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

Prisoners were immediately hanged

Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work

Proceeds of his permission to eat meat on Fridays

Proclaiming the virginity of the Virgin's mother

Rarely able to command, having never learned to obey

Readiness at any moment to defend dearly won liberties

Rebuked him for his obedience

Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the line of demarcation

Religion was not to be changed like a shirt

Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants

Repentance, as usual, had come many hours too late

Repose under one despot guaranteed to them by two others

Repose in the other world, "Repos ailleurs"

Repudiation of national debts was never heard of before

Requires less mention than Philip III himself

Resolved thenceforth to adopt a system of ignorance

Respect for differences in religious opinions

Rich enough to be worth robbing

Righteous to kill their own children

Road to Paris lay through the gates of Rome

Round game of deception, in which nobody was deceived

Royal plans should be enforced adequately or abandoned entirely

Rules adopted in regard to pretenders to crowns

Sacked and drowned ten infant princes

Sacrificed by the Queen for faithfully obeying her orders

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

Security is dangerous

Seeking protection for and against the people

Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous

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

Self-assertion—the healthful but not engaging attribute

Selling the privilege of eating eggs upon fast-days

Sentiment of Christian self-complacency

Served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their knees

Sewers which have ever run beneath decorous Christendom

She relieth on a hope that will deceive her

Shift the mantle of religion from one shoulder to the other

Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen

Sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged

Simple truth was highest skill

Sixteen of their best ships had been sacrificed

Slain four hundred and ten men with his own hand

So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism)

So unconscious of her strength

Soldiers enough to animate the good and terrify the bad

Some rude lessons from that vigorous little commonwealth

Spain was governed by an established terrorism

Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen

Sparing and war have no affinity together

Stake or gallows (for) heretics to transubstantiation

State can best defend religion by letting it alone

States were justified in their almost unlimited distrust

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

Strangled his nineteen brothers on his accession

Strength does a falsehood acquire in determined and skilful hand

String of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza

Subtle and dangerous enemy who wore the mask of a friend

Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill

Such an excuse was as bad as the accusation

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

Sure bind, sure find

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

Take all their imaginations and extravagances for truths

Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent

Tension now gave place to exhaustion

That crowned criminal, Philip the Second

That unholy trinity—Force; Dogma, and Ignorance

The very word toleration was to sound like an insult

The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels

The expenses of James's household

The worst were encouraged with their good success

The history of the Netherlands is history of liberty

The great ocean was but a Spanish lake

The divine speciality of a few transitory mortals

The sapling was to become the tree

The nation which deliberately carves itself in pieces

The most thriving branch of national industry (Smuggler)

The record of our race is essentially unwritten

The busy devil of petty economy

The small children diminished rapidly in numbers

The People had not been invented

The Alcoran was less cruel than the Inquisition

The wisest statesmen are prone to blunder in affairs of war

The art of ruling the world by doing nothing

The slightest theft was punished with the gallows

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

Their existence depended on war

There are few inventions in morals

There was apathy where there should have been enthusiasm

There is no man fitter for that purpose than myself

They were always to deceive every one, upon every occasion

They had come to disbelieve in the mystery of kingcraft

They liked not such divine right nor such gentle-mindedness

They chose to compel no man's conscience

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

Thirty thousand masses should be said for his soul

This obstinate little republic

Those who argue against a foregone conclusion

Thought that all was too little for him

Three hundred and upwards are hanged annually in London

Three or four hundred petty sovereigns (of Germany)

Tis pity he is not an Englishman

To negotiate with Government in England was to bribe

To negotiate was to bribe right and left, and at every step

To work, ever to work, was the primary law of his nature

To attack England it was necessary to take the road of Ireland

To shirk labour, infinite numbers become priests and friars

To doubt the infallibility of Calvin was as heinous a crime

Toil and sacrifices of those who have preceded us

Tolerate another religion that his own may be tolerated

Tolerating religious liberty had never entered his mind

Toleration—that intolerable term of insult

Torturing, hanging, embowelling of men, women, and children

Tranquil insolence

Tranquillity rather of paralysis than of health

Triple marriages between the respective nurseries

Trust her sword, not her enemy's word

Twas pity, he said, that both should be heretics

Under the name of religion (so many crimes)

Undue anxiety for impartiality

Universal suffrage was not dreamed of at that day

Unlearned their faith in bell, book, and candle

Unproductive consumption being accounted most sagacious

Unproductive consumption was alarmingly increasing

Unwise impatience for peace

Upon their knees, served the queen with wine

Upper and lower millstones of royal wrath and loyal subserviency

Use of the spade

Usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side countered

Utter want of adaptation of his means to his ends

Utter disproportions between the king's means and aims

Uttering of my choler doth little ease my grief or help my case

Valour on the one side and discretion on the other

Waiting the pleasure of a capricious and despotic woman

Walk up and down the earth and destroy his fellow-creatures

War was the normal and natural condition of mankind

War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of the strongest

War was the normal condition of Christians

Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for himself

We have the reputation of being a good housewife

We must all die once

We mustn't tickle ourselves to make ourselves laugh

We have been talking a little bit of truth to each other

We were sold by their negligence who are now angry with us

Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity by an enormous fine

Weapons

Weary of place without power

What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape bankruptcy

What was to be done in this world and believed as to the next

When persons of merit suffer without cause

When all was gone, they began to eat each other

Whether murders or stratagems, as if they were acts of virtue

While one's friends urge moderation

Who the "people" exactly were

Whole revenue was pledged to pay the interest, on his debts

Wish to sell us the bear-skin before they have killed the bear

With something of feline and feminine duplicity

Word peace in Spanish mouths simply meant the Holy Inquisition

Words are always interpreted to the disadvantage of the weak

World has rolled on to fresher fields of carnage and ruin

Worn nor caused to be worn the collar of the serf

Wrath of bigots on both sides

Wrath of that injured personage as he read such libellous truths

Write so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly

You must show your teeth to the Spaniard