Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
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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
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
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History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
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