Children, who had been taken from their parents to be educated by priests, were sent back.
Congregations, which had hitherto met only by stealth and with extreme peril, now worshipped God without molestation in the face of day.

Those simple mountaineers probably never knew that their fate had been a subject of discussion at the Hague, and that they owed the happiness of their firesides, and the security of their humble temples to the ascendency which William exercised over the Duke of Savoy.

[8] No coalition of which history has preserved the memory has had an abler chief than William.

But even William often contended in vain against those vices which are inherent in the nature of all coalitions.

No undertaking which requires the hearty and long continued cooperation of many independent states is likely to prosper.