The struggle which began unsuccessfully at Brentford in Middlesex, was continued at Boston in Massachusetts.

The scene had changed, but the conflicting principles were the same.

The war of Independence was virtually a second English civil war.

The ruin of the American cause would have been also the ruin of the constitutional cause in England; and a patriotic Englishman may revere the memory of Patrick Henry and George Washington not less justly than the patriotic American.

Burke's attitude in this great contest is that part of his history about the majestic and noble wisdom of which there can be least dispute..