 To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race — essentially the same, whether...  The Antiquary - Pagina 308editat de - 1895Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1878 - 504 pagini
...Dutch Republic." " To all who speak the English language," he says in the preface, " the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest; for it is a portion of the Anglo-Saxon race, essentially the same, whether... | |
 | 1856 - 704 pagini
...upon the throne of the stipendiary Stuarts. ' To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race, essentially... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1856 - 962 pagini
...stadholder upon the throne of the stipendiary Stuarts. To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race — essentially... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1882 - 1192 pagini
...scraps of scattered knowledge TSC posB69?ed on a most important subject, a symmetrical "history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life." But few young scholars would have " risen to the height of this great argument" or even the self-proposition... | |
 | 1894 - 808 pagini
...related it was to our own history. " To all who speak the English language," he said, " the history of the great agony through which the republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the AngloSaxon race, — essentially... | |
 | Alexander Farnum - 1884 - 348 pagini
...Dutch Republic, a History. 3 vols. London, 1869 " To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race." II. MOTLEY.... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 954 pagini
...himself a " distinguished critic and historian") — and also into German and Russian. The history " of the great agony through which the Republic of " Holland was ushered into life" needs no comment. The laborious study Mr. Motley underwent before publishing can be gathered from the... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1901 - 810 pagini
...stadholder upon the throne of the stipendiary Stuarts. To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race — essentially... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1902 - 236 pagini
...dissimilar. As Motley says in one of his prefaces : "To all who speak the English language the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the AngloSaxon race — essentially... | |
 | Basil Anderton - 1910 - 166 pagini
...for the literez humaniores, though genuine and earnest, had not had opportunity for high training. He had, we gather, been obliged to take his part in...life came near looked back through a vista of ' foul 9 and turbulent wars ' to those pleasant student days. This love for his early studies, together with... | |
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