【The history of England】
David Hume
All ancient writers agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gauls or Celtæ, who peopled that island from the neighboring continent.
天哪,看到这里,你有没有嗅到民主国家对阵集权国家的味道?
一个民主国家,什么事情都要议会批准,效率低下,此时集权国家优势就是集中精力办大事,速度快,力气大
the parliament seems even to have become sensible of the danger which might attend their further progress: no supply of money could be obtained by the regent during his greatest distresses: