War was the normal condition of Christians
War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of the strongest
We have been talking a little bit of truth to each other
What was to be done in this world and believed as to the next
What exchequer can accept chronic warfare and escape bankruptcy
When all was gone, they began to eat each other
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
You must show your teeth to the Spaniard
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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)