England and Holland were indeed torn by internal factions, and were separated from each other by mutual jealousies and antipathies; but both were fully resolved not to submit to French domination; and both were ready to bear their share, and more than their share, of the charges of the contest.

Most of the members of the confederacy were not nations, but men, an Emperor, a King, Electors, Dukes; and of these men there was scarcely one whose whole soul was in the struggle, scarcely one who did not hang back, who did not find some excuse for omitting to fulfil his engagements, who did not expect to be hired to defend his own rights and interests against the common enemy.
But the war was the war of the people of England and of the people of Holland.

Had it not been so, the burdens which it made necessary would not have been borne by either England or Holland during a single year.
When William said that he would rather die sword in hand than humble himself before France, he expressed what was felt, not by himself alone, but by two great communities of which he was the first magistrate.

With those two communities, unhappily, other states had little sympathy.
Indeed those two communities were regarded by other states as rich, plaindealing, generous dupes are regarded by needy sharpers.

England and Holland were wealthy; and they were zealous.