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They looked on them as a people who would submit to any thing; that they might insult them as they liked, plunder them as they pleased, and still the Dutch dared not to be provoked.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “They looked on them as a people who would submit to any thing; that they might insult them as they liked, plunder them…”
Editor's note · Context
Paine describes the British perception of the Dutch as submissive, which led to their mistreatment.
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