Among the powerful, who think themselves highly learned, and who sit in roses, it grows, alas, little.

Here and there a Nicodemus or two may be found, but things will hardly go better here than in France or the Netherlands." Thus, then, stood affairs in the neighbouring countries.

The prospect was black in Germany, more encouraging in France, dubious, or worse, in England.

More work, more anxiety, more desperate struggles than ever, devolved upon the Prince.

Secretary Brunynck wrote that his illustrious chief was tolerably well in health, but so loaded with affairs, sorrows, and travails, that, from morning till night, he had scarcely leisure to breathe.