counterplotters

In such a caballing, prevaricating age, it is difficult to know which of all the plotters and counterplotters engaged in these intrigues could accomplish the greatest amount of what -- for the sake of diluting in nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed in one -- was then called diplomatic dissimulation.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

In such a caballing, prevaricating age, it is difficult to know which of all the plotters and counterplotters engaged in these intrigues could accomplish the greatest amount of what -- for the sake of diluting in nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed in one -- was then called diplomatic dissimulation.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

In such a caballing, prevaricating age, it is difficult to know which of all the plotters and counterplotters engaged in these intrigues could accomplish the greatest amount of what -- for the sake of diluting in nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed in one -- was then called diplomatic dissimulation.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845

In such a caballing, prevaricating age, it is difficult to know which of all the plotters and counterplotters engaged in these intrigues could accomplish the greatest amount of what -- for the sake of diluting in nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed in one -- was then called diplomatic dissimulation.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c John Lothrop Motley 1845