elius de Witt, Ruart de Pulten, that is to say, warden of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Asmbly of the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of age, when the Dutbsp;people, tired of the Republibsp;subsp;as John de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of Holland, uood it, at onbsp;ceived a most violent affe for the Stadtholderate, whibsp;had been abolished for ever in Holland by the "Perpetual Edict" forbsp;by John de Witt upon the United Provinces.
As it rarely happens that publibsp;opinion, in its whimsibsp;flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people saw the personification of the Republibsp;in the two stern figures of the brothers De Witt, tho Romans of Holland, spurning to pander to the fancies of the mob.
and wedding themlves with unbending fidelity to liberty without litiousness, and prosperity without the waste of superfluity; on the other hand, the Stadtholderate recalled to the popular mind the grave and thoughtful image of the young Prinbsp;William of e.
elius de Witt, Ruart de Pulten, that is to say, warden of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Asmbly of the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of age, when the Dutbsp;people, tired of the Republibsp;subsp;as John de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of Holland, uood it, at onbsp;ceived a most violent affe for the Stadtholderate, whibsp;had been abolished for ever in Holland by the "Perpetual Edict" forbsp;by John de Witt upon the United Provinces.
As it rarely happens that publibsp;opinion, in its whimsibsp;flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people saw the personification of the Republibsp;in the two stern figures of the brothers De Witt, tho Romans of Holland, spurning to pander to the fancies of the mob.
and wedding themlves with unbending fidelity to liberty without litiousness, and prosperity without the waste of superfluity; on the other hand, the Stadtholderate recalled to the popular mind the grave and thoughtful image of the young Prinbsp;William of e.
The brothers De Witt humoured Louis XIV., who moral influenbsp;was felt by the whole of Europe, and the pressure of who material power Holland had been made to feel in that marvellous campaign on the Rhine, whibsp;in the spabsp;of three months, had laid the power of the United Provinbsp;prostrate.