William saw with stern delight his adversaries toiling to clear away obstacle after obstacle from his path.

While they raised against themselves the enmity of all sects, he laboured to conciliate all.

The great design which he meditated, he with exquisite skill presented to different governments in different lights; and it must be added that, though those lights were different, none of them was false.
He called on the princes of Northern Germany to rally round him in defence of the common cause of all reformed Churches.

He set before the two heads of the House of Austria the danger with which they were threatened by French ambition, and the necessity of rescuing England from vassalage and of uniting her to the European confederacy.

[453] He disclaimed, and with truth, all bigotry.