[50] This is a kind of reproach which a government sprung from a popular revolution almost inevitably incurs.

From such a government men naturally think themselves entitled to demand a more gentle and liberal administration than is expected from old and deeply rooted power.

Yet such a government, having, as it always has, many active enemies, and not having the strength derived from legitimacy and prescription, can at first maintain itself only by a vigilance and a severity of which old and deeply rooted power stands in no need.
Extraordinary and irregular vindications of public liberty are sometimes necessary: yet, however necessary, they are almost always followed by some temporary abridgments of that very liberty; and every such abridgment is a fertile and plausible theme for sarcasm and invective.
Unhappily sarcasm and invective directed against William were but too likely to find favourable audience.

Each of the two great parties had its own reasons for being dissatisfied with him; and there were some complaints in which both parties joined.

His manners gave almost universal offence.