A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.