Tea at Trianon: Sage

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, December 29, 2009

Sage

The natural antiseptic. (Via LRC) Share

2 comments:

Brantigny said...: The Native American inmates at this prison unit smoke it during their worship services. It has a pungent odor like another green plant marijuana. They mix it with tobacco for "smudging"

It is nasty stinky stuff in it raw form. Because the I/M can't have tobacco except for native American rituals everyone has suddnely become aware of their Lumbee, Azteca, Cherokee, Haliwa, or Saponi roots.

Richard; December 30, 2009 at 11:07:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...: I did not know this abotu sage!! I especially like the idea that a humidfier can be used to sanitize a room with a little of the essence of the herb added to the water! I imagine it would do the same inside the person when it is inhaled. IT has to be so much better for the person than Lysol disinfecting spray--that stuff is not good to breathe in for sure.; December 30, 2009 at 11:38:00 AM EST