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John Lothrop Motley
Profession : Historian
Birth : April 15, 1814
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
John Lothrop Motley
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
John Lothrop Motley
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
John Lothrop Motley
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
John Lothrop Motley
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
John Lothrop Motley
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
John Lothrop Motley
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
John Lothrop Motley
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
John Lothrop Motley
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
John Lothrop Motley
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
John Lothrop Motley
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
John Lothrop Motley
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
John Lothrop Motley
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
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
John Lothrop Motley
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
John Lothrop Motley
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
John Lothrop Motley
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