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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., The American revolution. (search)
The American revolution.
Epoch Second
How Great Britain estranged America.
1763-1774.
How Great Britain estranged America.
Chapter 1:
The continent of Europe
The successes of the Seven Years War were the
chap. I.} 1763 triumphs of Protestantism.
For the first time since the breach made in the church by Luther, the great Catholic powers, attracted by a secret consciousness of the decay of old institutions, banded themselves together to arrest the progress of change.
In vain did the descendants of the feudal aristocracies lead to the field superior numbers; in vain did the Pope bless their banners as though uplifted against unbelievers; no God of battles breathed life into their hosts, and the resistless heroism of the earlier chivalry was no more.
A wide-spread suspicion of insincerity weakened the influence of priestcraft, which relapsed from confident menace into a decorous compromise with skepticism.
The Catholic monarchies, in their struggle against innovatio
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 10