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Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17

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By John Lothrop Motley
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The author presents a political study of Barneveld, recounting his public career, diplomatic correspondence, and strategies as he warned Protestant powers of rising Catholic influence and sought military and financial aid to protect the republic. The account examines his instructions to envoys, negotiations with other courts over subsidies and garrisons, and his assessment of the republican federal system, noting its strengths and vulnerabilities. The narrative highlights the interaction of personal motives and statecraft and reconstructs how Barneveld attempted to avert a wider continental war while managing domestic rivalries and international pressures.

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And give advice. Of that, although always a spendthrift
Casual outbursts of eternal friendship
Changed his positions and contradicted himself day by day
Conciliation when war of extermination was intended
Considered it his special mission in the world to mediate
Denoungced as an obstacle to peace
France was mourning Henry and waiting for Richelieu
Hardly a sound Protestant policy anywhere but in Holland
History has not too many really important and emblematic men
I hope and I fear
King who thought it furious madness to resist the enemy
Mockery of negotiation in which nothing could be negotiated
More apprehension of fraud than of force
Opening an abyss between government and people
Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones
That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice
The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign's littleness
This wonderful sovereign's littleness oppresses the imagination
Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow