As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.