A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

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

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

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

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.

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

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.