With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
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.
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.