Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.