Few characters in history are indispensable.

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

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

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.

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

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

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.