Geschiedenis des vaderlands, Partie 10

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Meyer Warmars, 1836 - 13 pages
 

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Page 209 - Buyter should quickly come up. The flood returned, which they thought was to end in their ruin. But to all their amazement, after it had flowed two or three hours, an ebb of many hours succeeded, which carried the fleet again to the sea. And, before that was spent, De Ruyter came in view. This they reckoned a miracle wrought for their preservation.
Page 288 - I was, in many great instances, much obliged by him; but that was not my chief bias to him: I considered him as a person raised up by God to resist the power of France, and the progress of tyranny and persecution : the series of the five princes of Orange, that was now ended in him, was the noblest succession of heroes that we find in any history...
Page 236 - J'envoyai, il ya trois jours, M. de Maqueline pour châtier des paysans qui avaient tiré sur un de nos partis; il ne les trouva pas assemblés, et ainsi il fut contraint de brûler seulement leur village ; et comme ce fut la nuit qu'il y arriva et que les maisons de ce pays sont fort combustibles, il est vrai que rien ne s'est sauvé de ce qui était dedans, chevaux, vaches, et, à ce qu'on dit, assez de paysans, femmes et petits-enfants.
Page 287 - He had no vice, but of one sort, in which he was very cautious and secret '. He had a way that was affable and obliging to the Dutch.
Page 289 - ... few men had stronger passions, which were seldom felt but by inferior servants, to whom he usually made such recompenses for any sudden or indecent vents he might give his anger, that they were glad at every time that it broke upon them...
Page 289 - ... it broke upon them : he was too easy to the faults of those about him, when they did not lie in his own way, or cross any of his designs ; and he was so apt to think that his ministers might grow insolent, if they should find that they had...
Page 208 - ... to him for the third time. — Swift. Perspicuity. Ibid. Burnet. The actions sinking on the sudden on the breaking out of a new war, that sunk him into a melancholy, which quite distracted him. — Swift. Eloquent. P. 335. Burnet. I will complete the transactions of this memorable year : — P. 337. Thus I have gone far into the state of affairs of Holland in this memorable year. — Swift. Why, you called it so but just now before. P. 337. Burnet. It seems, the French made no great account of...
Page 288 - And, if 1686. what he said of Mary queen of Scots was true, he was not to be blamed, who made that use of it : and, she added, that if princes would do ill things, they must expect that the world will take revenges on their memory, since they cannot reach their persons: 691 that was but a small suffering, far short of what others suffered at their hands.
Page 287 - Prince had been much neglected in his education, for all his life he hated constraint. He spoke little. He put on some appearance of application, but he hated business of all sorts. Yet he hated talking and all house games more. This put him on a perpetual course of hunting, to which he seemed to give himself up beyond any man I ever knew; but I looked on that always...
Page 289 - His behaviour was solemn and serious, seldom cheerful, and but with a few. He spoke little, and very slowly, and most commonly with a disgusting dryness, which was his character at all times, except in a day of battle; for then he was all fire, though without passion. He was then everywhere, and looked to everything.

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