From The Rise of the Dutch Republic, by John Lothrop MotleyDURABILITY
"Durability is not the test of merit in human institutions."
From Part 1, Chapter 1, Philip the Second in the Netherlands, 1553 - 1559
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Daily Dose
From The Rise of the Dutch Republic, by John Lothrop MotleyDURABILITY
"Durability is not the test of merit in human institutions."
From Part 1, Chapter 1, Philip the Second in the Netherlands, 1553 - 1559
Friday, January 21, 2011
Daily Dose
From The Rise of the Dutch Republic, by John Lothrop MotleyPOWER
"Power, the more subdivided, becomes the more tyrannical."
From Book I, Chapter 4
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Clerihew in Orange Motley
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEYAt length, John Lothrop Motley,
Protested rather hotly,
"No writer quite intends, as such,
To write so much about the Dutch."
Daily Dose
From The Rise of the Dutch Republic, by John Lothrop MotleyA NOTE FROM DON JOHN
"Men who had gone to bed in a high state of indignation were not likely to wake in much better humour, when suddenly roused from their first nap, to listen to such a message as this. It seemed only one piece of trifling the more."
From Part V, Don John of Austria, 1576 - 1578, Chapter I
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