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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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

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With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

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