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John Lothrop Motley

John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814 – May 29, 1877) was an American author, best known for his two popular histories The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The United Netherlands. He was also a diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War.

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

Away, Century, Faded, Form, Tenth

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Brings, Confidence, Confidence And Strength, Strength, Wealth

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

Civilization, Improvised, Mind, Single

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

Empires, Fifth, Grave, Liberty, Splendid

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 spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

Atheist, Body, Call, Men, Universe, Wall

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Culture, Lie, Long, Lying, Soil

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

Ferocious, Glitter, Persons, Scared, Timid, Weak

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

Dispense, Funny, Give, Giving, Luxury, Necessities

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

Bad, Christian, Good Christian, Lawyer

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

America, Class, England, England And America, Men

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Animal, Terrible, Unbridled, Unbridled Passion, Woman

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

Becomes, Franks, History, Netherlands

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

Blood, Government, Liberty, Local, Self

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

Increase, Increases, Practice, Repartee, Talent

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

Gaul, Order, Orders, People, Two