American - Historian | April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
John Lothrop Motley
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
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Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
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History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
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