text:  The English Revolution was merely political--the French was social also; the benefits of the Bill of Rights great and inestimable as they were were such as demanded some knowledge and reflection to appreciate--they did not come home directly to the business and bosom of the peasant; it was only in rare and great emergencies that he could become sensible of the rights they gave or of the means of oppression they took away: while the time-honoured dwellings of the Cavendishes and Russells were menaced and assailed nothing but the most senseless tyranny could render the cottage insecure; but the abolition of the seignorial rights in France free communication between her provinces equal taxation impartial justice--these were blessings which it required no economist to illustrate and no philosopher to explain