The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland: With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War, Том 2Harper, 1880 |
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Страница 29 - ... of its future, so the Advocate was its statesman and its prophet. Could the two have worked together as harmoniously as they had done at an earlier day, it would have been a blessing for the common weal of Europe. But, alas ! the evil genius of jealousy, which so often forbids cordial relations between soldier and statesman, already stood shrouded in the distance, darkly menacing the strenuous patriot, who was wearing his life out in exertions for what he deemed the true cause of progress and...
Страница 68 - ... me to suffer them to fall again in the hands of Spain, and let God provide for the danger that may with time fall upon me or my posterity than presently to starve myself and mine with putting the meat in their mouth. Nay, rather if they be so weak as they can neither sustain themselves in peace nor war, let them leave this vainglorious thirsting for the title of a free state (which no people are worthy or able to enjoy that cannot stand by themselves like substantives), and ' dividantur inter...
Страница 68 - It is so far out of all square," he had said, " as on my conscience I cannot think that ever they craved it 'animo oltinendi,' but only by that objection to discourage me from any thought of getting any repayment of my debts from them when they shall be in peace Should I ruin myself for maintaining them ? Should I bestow as much on them as cometh to the value of my whole yearly rent ? " He had proceeded to say very plainly that, if the States did not make great speed to pay him all his debt so soon...
Страница 68 - ... off harm from me to suffer them to fall again into the hands of Spain, and let God provide for the danger that may with time fall upon me or my posterity, than presently to starve myself and mine with putting the meat in their mouth...
Страница 68 - ... they cannot subsist, either in peace or war, without I ruin myself for upholding them, in that case surely the nearest harm is to be first eschewed : a man will leap out of a burning ship and drown himself in the sea ; and it is doubtless a farther off harm from me to suffer them to fall again into the hands of Spain, and let God provide for the danger that may with time fall upon me or my posterity, than presently to starve myself and mine with putting the meat in their mouth.
Страница 2 - ... the march of great events, upon general historical results at certain epochs, and upon the destiny of eminent personages. It may also be not uninteresting to venture a glance into the internal structure and workings of a republican and federal system of government, then for the first time reproduced almost spontaneously upon an extended scale. Perhaps the revelation of some of its defects, in spite of the faculty and vitality struggling against them, may not be without value for our own country...
Страница 28 - No man can thoroughly understand the complication and precession of phenomena attending the disastrous dawn of the renewed war, on an even more awful scale than the original conflict in the Netherlands, without studying the correspondence of Barneveld. The history of Europe is there. The fate of Christendom is there. The conflict of elements, the crash of contending forms of religion and of nationalities, is pictured there in vivid if homely colours. The Advocate, while acting only in the name of...
Страница 22 - ... (Vol. ii. p. 16.) And again on June 19, 1616 : — 'We receive advices 6very day that the Spaniards and the Roman League are going forward with their design. They are trying to amuse the British King and to gain time, in order to be able to deal heavier blows. Do all possible duty to procure a timely revolution there. To wait again until we are anticipated will be fatal to the cause of the Evangelical electors and princes of Germany, and especially of His Electoral Highness of Brandenburg.
Страница 23 - Spaniards in check merely by speeches or letters, it would be better to say so clearly to our friends. So long as Parliament is not convoked in order to obtain consents and subsidies for this most necessary purpose, so long I fail to believe that this great common cause of Christendom, and especially of Germany, is taken to heart by England.