ogenarian was past work and past
mischief

Of high rank but of lamentably low
capacity

Often much tyranny in democracy

Often necessary to be blind and deaf

Oldenbarneveld; afterwards so
illustrious

On the first day four thousand men and
women were slaughtered

One-half to Philip and one-half to the
Pope and Venice (slaves)

One-third of Philip's effective navy
was thus destroyed

One golden grain of wit into a sheet of
infinite platitude

One could neither cry nor laugh within
the Spanish dominions

One of the most contemptible and
mischievous of kings (James I)

Only healthy existence of the French
was in a state of war

Only true religion

Only citadel against a tyrant and a
conqueror was distrust

Only kept alive by milk, which he drank
from a woman's breast

Only foundation fit for history,--
original contemporary document

Opening an abyss between government and
people

Opposed the subjection of the
magistracy by the priesthood

Oration, fertile in rhetoric and barren
in facts

Orator was, however, delighted with his
own performance

Others that do nothing, do all, and
have all the thanks

Others go to battle, says the
historian, these go to war

Our pot had not gone to the fire as
often

Our mortal life is but a string of
guesses at the future

Outdoing himself in dogmatism and
inconsistency

Over excited, when his prejudices were
roughly handled

Panegyrists of royal houses in the
sixteenth century

Pardon for crimes already committed, or
about to be committed

Pardon for murder, if not by poison,
was cheaper

Partisans wanted not accommodation but
victory

Party hatred was not yet glutted with
the blood it had drunk

Passion is a bad schoolmistress for the
memory

Past was once the Present, and once the
Future

Pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn

Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea

Pauper client who dreamed of justice at
the hands of law

Paving the way towards atheism (by
toleration)

Paying their passage through, purgatory

Peace founded on the only secure basis,
equality of strength

Peace was desirable, it might be more
dangerous than war

Peace seemed only a process for
arriving at war

Peace and quietness is brought into a
most dangerous estate

Peace-at-any-price party

Peace, in reality, was war in its worst
shape

Peace was unattainable, war was
impossible, truce was inevitable

Peace would be destruction