History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., volume 3
History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., volume 3
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
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That sys- tem was enforced, with equal eagerness, by England upon the sea-coast. Could France, and England, and Spain, have amicably divided the American continent; could they have been partners, and not rivals, in op pression ; I know not whence hope could have besmied upon the colonies. But the; aristocratic revolution of England was thei signal for a war with France, growing out of " a loot of enmity,'' which Marlborough described as " irrecon- cilable to the government and the religion" of ...Great Diitain. Louis XIY. took up arms in defence of legit^ imacy; and Eifigland had the glorious office of asserting the right of a nation to reform its government. But, (hough the progress of the revolutionary principle was the root of the enmity, France could not, at once, ob- tain the affiance of every European power which was Digitized by Google 176 COLONIAL RIVALRY OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND. CHAP, unfriendly to change. She had encroached on every --^>'-^ neighbor ; and fear, and a sense of wrong, made all of them her enemies.
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