John Lothrop Motley Zitate auf Englisch
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
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With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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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.
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
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The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
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The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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