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.

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.

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

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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