The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete
                                            
                            By Friedrich Schiller
                            
                                8 Apr, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Of those important political events which make the sixteenth century to take rank among the brightest of the world’s epochs, the foundation of the freedom of the Netherlands appears to me one of the most remarkable. If the glittering exploits of am
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                                                Of those important political events which make the sixteenth century to take rank among the brightest of the world’s epochs, the foundation of the freedom of the Netherlands appears to me one of the most remarkable. If the glittering exploits of ambition and the pernicious lust of power claim our admiration, how much more so should an event in which oppressed humanity struggled for its noblest rights, where with the good cause unwonted powers were united, and the resources of resolute despair triumphed in unequal contest over the terrible arts of tyranny. Less