The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
Produced by David Widger
THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1555-1566, Complete
A History
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, D.C.L., LL.D. Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, Etc. 1855
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. Without the birth of this great commonwealth, the various historical phenomena of: the sixteenth and following centuries must have either not existed; or have presented themselves under essential modifications.—Itself an organized protest against ecclesiastical tyranny and universal empire, the Republic guarded with sagacity, at many critical periods in the world's history; that balance of power which, among civilized states; ought always to be identical with the scales of divine justice. The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. It is a consolation to those who have hope in humanity to watch, under the reign of his successor, the gradual but triumphant resurrection of the spirit over which the sepulchre had so long been sealed. From the handbreadth of territory called the province of Holland rises a power which wages eighty years' warfare with the most potent empire upon earth, and which, during the progress of the struggle, becoming itself a mighty state, and binding about its own slender form a zone of the richest possessions of earth, from pole to tropic, finally dictates its decrees to the empire of Charles.
So much is each individual state but a member of one great international commonwealth, and so close is the relationship between the whole human family, that it is impossible for a nation, even while struggling for itself, not to acquire something for all mankind. The maintenance of the right by the little provinces of Holland and Zealand in the sixteenth, by Holland and England united in the seventeenth, and by the United States of America in the eighteenth centuries, forms but a single chapter in the great volume of human fate; for the so-called revolutions of Holland, England, and America, are all links of one chain.
John Lothrop Motley
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MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION
PREFACE
THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
Part 1.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 2.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 3.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 4.
1558-1559 [CHAPTER III.]
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 5.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 6.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 7.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 8.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 9.
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 10.
1566 [CHAPTER VII.]
CHAPTER IX., Part 1., 1566
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 13.
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1567 [CHAPTER X.]
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 14.
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MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 15.
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MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 16.
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1568 [CHAPTER III.]
1568 [CHAPTER IV.]
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 17.
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MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 18.
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MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 19.
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MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 20.
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1572-73 [CHAPTER VIII.]
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 21.
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MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 22.
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PART IV. 1573-74 [CHAPTER I.]
1574 [CHAPTER II.]
MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS
THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
CHAPTER IV.
1576-1577 [CHAPTER V.]
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PART V.
THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
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CHAPTER III.
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CHAPTER IV.
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CHAPTER V.
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PART VI.
CHAPTER I.
THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
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CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
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CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.