In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
- John Lothrop Motley
Slaves, Nobility, Were, Priesthood
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
- John Lothrop Motley
Only, Iron, Force, Sword
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
- John Lothrop Motley
Broken, Country, Thus, Patches
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
- John Lothrop Motley
Netherlands, Whole, Forests
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
- John Lothrop Motley
Career, Rome, Still, Outward
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
- John Lothrop Motley
Century, Faded, Tenth, Forms
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
- John Lothrop Motley
Timid, Persons, Servitude, Scared
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
- John Lothrop Motley
Give, Will, Luxuries, Dispense
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
- John Lothrop Motley
Still, Longer, Period, Empires
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
- John Lothrop Motley
Holland, Thus, Liberties, Waxed
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
- John Lothrop Motley
Liberty, Grave, Splendid, Empire
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
- John Lothrop Motley
Legal, Christian, Bad, Lawyer
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
- John Lothrop Motley
Dutch, Ever, Times, Rise
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
- John Lothrop Motley
Rest, More, Potent, Slowly
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
- John Lothrop Motley
Great, Germans, Assembly, Sovereignty
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
- John Lothrop Motley
The History Of, Therefore, Netherlands
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
- John Lothrop Motley
Rome, Been, Thus, Netherlands
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
- John Lothrop Motley
Soldiers, Band, Roman, Gigantic
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
- John Lothrop Motley
How, Barriers, Shows, Feeble
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
- John Lothrop Motley
Mind, New, Single, Improvised
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
- John Lothrop Motley
Improvement, Condition, Made, Crusades
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
- John Lothrop Motley
Animal, Woman, Terrible, Indeed
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
- John Lothrop Motley
Strength, Confidence, Wealth, Brings
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
- John Lothrop Motley
Enthusiasm, Place, Could, Supply
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