He and he alone, they imagined, could avert that dismemberment of which they could not bear to think.

Perhaps he might yet be induced to violate the engagements into which he had entered with England and Holland, if one of his grandsons were named successor to the Spanish throne.

He, therefore, must be respected and courted.

But William could at that moment do little to hurt or to help.
He could hardly be said to have an army.

He could take no step which would require an outlay of money without the sanction of the House of Commons; and it seemed to be the chief study of the House of Commons to cross him and to humble him.