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CONTENTS
PREFACE
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
Part 1.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
Part 2.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
PHILIP THE SECOND IN THE NETHERLANDS
CHAPTER I. 1555
CHAPTER II. 1555-1558
CHAPTER III. 1558-1559
ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUCHESS MARGARET.
CHAPTER I. 1559-1560
CHAPTER II. 1560-1561
CHAPTER III. 1561-1562
CHAPTER IV. 1563-1564
CHAPTER V. 1564-1565
CHAPTER VI. 1566
CHAPTER VII. 1566
[Etext Editor's Note: JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, born in Dorchester, Mass. 1814, died 1877. Other works: Morton's Hopes and Merry Mount, novels. Motley was the United States Minister to Austria, 1861-67, and the United States Minister to England, 1869-70. Mark Twain mentions his respect for John Motley. Oliver Wendell Holmes said in 'An Oration delivered before the City Authorities of Boston' on the 4th of July, 1863: "'It cannot be denied,'—says another observer, placed on one of our national watch-towers in a foreign capital,—'it cannot be denied that the tendency of European public opinion, as delivered from high places, is more and more unfriendly to our cause; but the people,' he adds, 'everywhere sympathize with us, for they know that our cause is that of free institutions,—that our struggle is that of the people against an oligarchy.' These are the words of the Minister to Austria, whose generous sympathies with popular liberty no homage paid to his genius by the class whose admiring welcome is most seductive to scholars has ever spoiled; our fellow-citizen, the historian of a great Republic which infused a portion of its life into our own,—John Lothrop Motley." (See the biography of Motley, by Holmes) Ed.]