Tea at Trianon: In Darkest Pennsylvania

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

In Darkest Pennsylvania

Yes, we're all bitter here, clinging to our guns and our religion. Pat Buchanan explains. (Via A Conservative Blog for Peace) Share

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Well, it must be true, or there would have been overwhelming support of Obama there! ;) And, by the way, isn't Pennsylvania ABOVE the Mason-Dixon line? Ol' Hussain Obama seems to be confusing his stereotypes.

L&P,
Georgette; April 16, 2008 at 1:06:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, we are above the Mason-Dixon line but sometimes I think that was an accident.; April 16, 2008 at 8:21:00 AM EDT
Brantigny said...: We all know that those bitter Amish live in Pennsylvania. I think that they just drive slow on the roads to mess with the economy.

What does the Mason-Dixon have to do with it? I have met more real hunters in Penn. than in every other state.

hahahahahaha; April 16, 2008 at 9:22:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, Pennsylvania is the Alabama of the north.; April 16, 2008 at 9:46:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: "Pennsylvania is the Alabama of the north" - now THAT is funny. One of the best descriptions of PA I've ever heard!; April 16, 2008 at 11:04:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, except now I have some Alabamians who are taking umbrage at the comparison. Alabamians have much better manners.; April 21, 2008 at 6:02:00 PM EDT