The Rise of the Dutch Republic — volume 10: 1566, Part I
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — volume 10: 1566, Part I
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Here he was thrown into prison as adisturber of the peace, but in reality that he might be personallysecure. The next day the Prince of Orange, after administering to him asevere rebuke for his ill-timed exhibition of pedantry, released him fromconfinement, and had him conveyed out of the city. "This theologian;"wrote the Prince to Duchess Margaret, "would have done better, methinks, to stay at home; for I suppose he had no especial orders to perform thispiece of work. " Thus, so long as this g...reat statesman could remain in the metropolis, his temperate firmness prevented the explosion which had so long beenexpected. His own government of Holland and Zeland, too, especiallydemanded his care. The field-preaching had spread in that region withprodigious rapidity. Armed assemblages, utterly beyond the power of thecivil authorities, were taking place daily in the neighborhood ofAmsterdam. Yet the Duchess could not allow him to visit his governmentin the north. If he could be spared from Antwerp for a day, it wasnecessary that he should aid her in a fresh complication with theconfederated nobles in the very midst, therefore, of his Antwerp labors, he had been obliged, by Margaret's orders, to meet a committee at Duffel.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Here he was thrown into prison as adisturber of the peace, but in reality that he might be personallysecure. The next day the Prince of Orange, after administering to him asevere rebuke for his ill-timed exhibition of pedantry, released him fromconfinement, and had him conveyed out of the city. "This theologian;"wrote the Prince to Duchess Margaret, "would have done better, methinks, to stay at home; for I suppose he had no especial orders to perform thispiece of work. " Thus, so long as this g...reat statesman could remain in the metropolis, his temperate firmness prevented the explosion which had so long beenexpected. His own government of Holland and Zeland, too, especiallydemanded his care. The field-preaching had spread in that region withprodigious rapidity. Armed assemblages, utterly beyond the power of thecivil authorities, were taking place daily in the neighborhood ofAmsterdam. Yet the Duchess could not allow him to visit his governmentin the north. If he could be spared from Antwerp for a day, it wasnecessary that he should aid her in a fresh complication with theconfederated nobles in the very midst, therefore, of his Antwerp labors, he had been obliged, by Margaret's orders, to meet a committee at Duffel.
What to read after The Rise of the Dutch Republic — volume 10: 1566, Part I?
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