The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.