 The history of the rise of the Netherland Republic has been at the same time the biography of William the Silent. This, while it gives unity to the narrative, renders an elaborate description of his character superfluous. That life was a noble Christian...  The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History - 616 ページJohn Lothrop Motley 著 - 1861全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1859 - 516 ページ
...by its writer with the biography of William the Silent — whose life the historian characterises as a noble Christian epic, inspired with one great purpose...expanding fulness, but retaining all its original purity. The life and labours of Orange are shown to have established the emancipated commonwealth upon a secure... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 ページ
...history of the rise of the Motherland Republic is at the same time the biography of William the Silent. That life was a noble Christian epic ; inspired with one great purpose from its commencement to ita close ; the stream flowing ever from one fountain with expanding fullness, but retaining all its... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1871 - 346 ページ
...ad., too early. Avoid saying endoord for en-dured; moddl for mod'el; attemps for at-tempts1. Silent. That life was a noble Christian epic ; inspired with...stream flowing ever from one fountain with expanding fullness, but retaining all its original purity. 2. In. person, William was above the middle height,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 ページ
...and destined for a still larger life than even in the healthiest moments of its mediaeval existence. while it gives unity to the narrative, renders an...stream flowing ever from one fountain with expanding fullness, but retaining all its original purity. A few general observations are all which are necessary... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1874 - 346 ページ
...ad., too early. Avoid saying endoord for en-dured; moddl for mod''el; attempt for at-tempts'. Silent . That life was a noble Christian epic; inspired with...stream flowing ever from one fountain with expanding fullness, but retaining all its original purity. 2. In person, William was above the middle height,... | |
 | Titus Mooney Merriman - 1874 - 468 ページ
...Orange, as the champion of religious liberty for the world. Mr. Motley well says, Vol. Ill, page 615, — "The history of the rise of the Netherland Republic,...the same time the biography of "William the Silent." But if the object of this work be not a failure, in that direction, we need more than a " biography... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1881 - 368 ページ
...incident in his life of great interest, which the student will find related in Motley's history. 1 THE history of the rise of the Netherland republic...stream flowing ever from one fountain with expanding fullness, but retaining all its original purity. A few general observations are all which are necessary... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1882 - 416 ページ
...perished the most remarkable man of his time — a man whose life was, as his great biographer remarks, "a noble Christian epic inspired with one great purpose...fulness, but retaining all its original purity;" a man earnestly religious and God-fearing, firm and constant, with intellectual faculties various and... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 ページ
...incident in his life of great interest, which the student will find related in Motley's history. 1 THE history of the rise of the Netherland republic...stream flowing ever from one fountain with expanding fullness, but retaining all its original purity. A few general observations are all which are necessary... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 672 ページ
...was written? WILLIAM THE SILENT JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY [From the " Rise of the Dutch Republic," vol. i] THE history of the rise of the Netherland Republic...stream flowing ever from one fountain with expanding fullness, but retaining all its original purity. A few general observations are all which are necessary... | |
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