The Spanish would grant only a temporary truce, terminable at six days' notice, and that only for the four cautionary towns of Holland held by the Queen.
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He did not wish to introduce compulsion, but proposed that justices should be enabled to raise money by way of terminable annuities for the reception in public asylums of those who could pay.
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The one is the religious idea of Marriage as a Sacrament; the other the materialistic idea of it as an ordinary terminable contract.
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