Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

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

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

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.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.