Author: Albert Bushnell Hart

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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.

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.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

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.

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.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

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

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

- Albert Bushnell Hart

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

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