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Bribed the Deity
Forgiving spirit on
the part of the malefactor
Great error of despising
their enemy
Mistake to stumble a
second time over the same stone
Modern statesmanship,
even while it practises, condemns
Preferred an open enemy
to a treacherous protector
Reformer who becomes
in his turn a bigot is doubly odious
Unremitted intellectual
labor in an honorable cause
Usual phraseology of
enthusiasts
Writing letters full
of injured innocence
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A terrible animal, indeed,
is an unbridled woman
A good lawyer is a bad
Christian
A most fatal success
A common hatred united
them, for a time at least
Absurd affectation of
candor
Agreements were valid
only until he should repent
All the majesty which
decoration could impart
All Protestants were
beheaded, burned, or buried alive
All claimed the privilege
of persecuting
Always less apt to complain
of irrevocable events
Amuse them with this
peace negotiation
Are apt to discharge
such obligations—(by) ingratitude
Arrive at their end
by fraud, when violence will not avail them
As the old woman had
told the Emperor Adrian
Attachment to a half-drowned
land and to a despised religion
Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman
of Ratisbon
Beautiful damsel, who
certainly did not lack suitors
Believed in the blessed
advent of peace
Blessing of God upon
the Devil’s work
Breath, time, and paper
were profusely wasted and nothing gained
Bribed the Deity
Care neither for words
nor menaces in any matter
Character of brave men
to act, not to expect
Claimed the praise of
moderation that their demands were so few
Colonel Ysselstein,
“dismissed for a homicide or two”
Compassing a country’s
emancipation through a series of defeats
Conflicting claims of
prerogative and conscience
Confused conferences,
where neither party was entirely sincere
Country would bear his
loss with fortitude
Customary oaths, to
be kept with the customary conscientiousness
Daily widening schism
between Lutherans and Calvinists
Deadliest of sins, the
liberty of conscience
Difficult for one friend
to advise another in three matters
Distinguished for his
courage, his cruelty, and his corpulence
Don John of Austria
Don John was at liberty
to be King of England and Scotland
Dying at so very inconvenient
a moment
Eight thousand human
beings were murdered
Establish not freedom
for Calvinism, but freedom for conscience
Everything was conceded,