"The crusades made great improvement in the condition……" — John Lothrop Motley
"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."
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29 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley has 29 quotes on this site.
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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
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Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones,…
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God;…
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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More Condition Quotes
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
— Alfred Adler
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