The History of the Reign of George III, Vol. 1 of 3: To Which Is Prefixed, a View of the Progressive Improvement of England, in Prosperity and ... Accession of His Majesty (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The History of the Reign of George III, Vol. 1 of 3: To Which Is Prefixed, a View of the Progressive Improvement of England, in Prosperity and Strength, to the Accession of His Majesty

Similar, indeed, in calamitous circumstances, at different though near periods of the fifteenh century, but dissimilar in the original in stitutions, and in the ranks and orders of men which these generated, France and England were destined to experience very unlike systems of polity, at the time they both advanced in civilization and knowledge. W'vhen the French nobility, after being so much exhausted by inter nal dissensions and the wars with England, were farther impaired by the crafty, unfeeling, and oppressive policy of Louis XL; there being no intermediate orders between them and the labouring people, who were actually slaves, all ranks were involved in one vortex of arbitrary dominion. France became a simple monarchy; while England, by rearing and cherishing a middle class, which augmented in force as spreading industry and increasing knowledge, enlarged the means of acquiring moderate independence, was improved into a free constitu tion, providing equally for the governing and governed,and proposing the general welfare as the only legitimate object of political establish ments and national conduct.

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