"In 1763 the English were the most powerful……" — Albert Bushnell Hart

"In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world."

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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26 Quotes by Albert Bushnell Hart

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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away…
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.
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England…
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic…
In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social…
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages…
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the…
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of…
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense…

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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