The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. John Lothrop Motley Read Quote
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. John Lothrop Motley Read Quote
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. John Lothrop Motley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
