A Brief History of England, by David Hume

David hume blew away that happy parliamentary view of the eternal fight for ancient liberties. He made a bonfire therefore, of all those whiggish favorites. There had been no anglo saxon liberty. Normans had brought enlightenment and culture not ploughing furniture. Simon de montford was a cruel destroyer. And magna carta had bought no liberties for the people. Anyway, liberties hadn't come from england, but from france out. Liberty came not from resistance to monarchy. It required the authority, almost absolute, of the sovereign to pull d on those disorderly and licentious tyrants who were equally enemies to peace and to freedom. The fenders of the good