Barneveldt

Spinoza was not only an atheist — he taught atheism; but assuredly he had no part in the judicial assassination of Barneveldt; nor was it he who tore in pieces the two brothers De Witt, and ate them off the gridiron.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It was on a scaffolding in front of it that Barneveldt, the grand pensionary of Holland, was beheaded, in 1618, at the age of seventy-two.

Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Various

The result was that Holland's Calvinism was intensified; Barneveldt

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

Barneveldt was beheaded in 1619, the almost inevitable result of his long period of differences with the Stadtholder Maurice, son of William the Silent.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

Prince Maurice never recovered from the error -- to put for the moment no worse epithet to it -- of the death of Barneveldt.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

Barneveldt came to the block because he was an Arminian.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

Their house, he notices, had once been the residence of Barneveldt.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

Afterward, when, as a partisan of Barneveldt, he was persecuted, condemned to perpetual imprisonment, and shut up in the castle of Löwestein, he wrote his treatise on the _Rights of Peace and War_, which for a long time was the code of all the publicists of Europe.

Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877

Amongst other things there is the sword of that Ruyter who began life as a rope-maker at Vlissingen, and became the greatest admiral of Holland; Admiral Tromp's cuirass perforated by bullets; a chair from the prison of the venerated Barneveldt; a box containing a lock of hair from the head of that Van Speyk who in 1831, on the

Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877

Grotius, the _prodigium Europæ_, as the epitaph calls him, the great jurisconsult of the seventeenth century -- that Grotius who wrote Latin verses at the age of nine, who composed Greek odes at eleven, who at fourteen indited philosophical theses, who three years later accompanied the illustrious Barneveldt in his embassy to Paris, where Henry IV. presented him to his court, saying, "Behold the miracle of Holland!" that

Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877