He did not sit down, like Hallam, to write a constitutional history, and he could not be expected to deal with his subject from that special point of view.

Freeman's complaint, which is quite just, was that he neglected almost entirely the relations of the Crown with the Houses of Parliament and with the courts of law.

The moral blot accounts for a good deal of the indignation which Froude excited in minds far less jaundiced than Freeman's.

No one hated injustice more than Froude.
But cruelty as such did not inspire him with any horror.

No punishment, however atrocious, seemed to him too great for persons clearly guilty of enormous crimes.