A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.