The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
From John Lothrop Motley
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
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.
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
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