The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. - 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
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments … - John Lothrop Motley
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments …
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due. - John Lothrop Motley
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper. - John Lothrop Motley
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty. - John Lothrop Motley
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. - John Lothrop Motley
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in… - John Lothrop Motley
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in…
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands. - John Lothrop Motley
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience. - John Lothrop Motley
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
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