[675] Thus was consummated the English Revolution.

When we compare it with those revolutions which have, during the last sixty years, overthrown so many ancient governments, we cannot but be struck by its peculiar character.

Why that character was so peculiar is sufficiently obvious, and yet seems not to have been always understood either by eulogists or by censors.
The continental revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took place in countries where all trace of the limited monarchy of the middle ages had long been effaced.

The right of the prince to make laws and to levy money had, during many generations, been undisputed.

His throne was guarded by a great regular army.