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Argument in a circle
He that stands let him
see that he does not fall
If he has deserved it,
let them strike off his head
Misery had come not
from their being enemies
O God! what does man
come to!
Party hatred was not
yet glutted with the blood it had drunk
Rose superior to his
doom and took captivity captive
This, then, is the reward
of forty years’ service to the State
To milk, the cow as
long as she would give milk
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Acts of violence which
under pretext of religion
Adulation for inferiors
whom they despise
Affection of his friends
and the wrath of his enemies
And give advice.
Of that, although always a spendthrift
Argument in a circle
Better to be governed
by magistrates than mobs
Burning with bitter
revenge for all the favours he had received
Calumny is often a stronger
and more lasting power than disdain
Casual outbursts of
eternal friendship
Changed his positions
and contradicted himself day by day
Conciliation when war
of extermination was intended
Considered it his special
mission in the world to mediate
Created one child for
damnation and another for salvation
Death rather than life
with a false acknowledgment of guilt
Denoungced as an obstacle
to peace
Depths theological party
spirit could descend
Depths of credulity
men in all ages can sink
Devote himself to his
gout and to his fair young wife
Enemy of all compulsion
of the human conscience
Extraordinary capacity
for yielding to gentle violence
France was mourning
Henry and waiting for Richelieu
Furious mob set upon
the house of Rem Bischop
Hardly a sound Protestant
policy anywhere but in Holland
He that stands let him
see that he does not fall
Heidelberg Catechism
were declared to be infallible
Highborn demagogues
in that as in every age affect adulation
History has not too
many really important and emblematic men
Human nature in its
meanness and shame
I hope and I fear
I know how to console
myself
If he has deserved it,
let them strike off his head
Implication there was
much, of assertion very little
In this he was much
behind his age or before it
It had not yet occurred
to him that he was married
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King who thought it
furious madness to resist the enemy
Logic is rarely the
quality on which kings pride themselves
Magistracy at that moment
seemed to mean the sword
Make the very name of
man a term of reproach
Misery had come not
from their being enemies
Mockery of negotiation