Tea at Trianon: Five Things That Are Worse Than Being in Debt

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

Monday, January 17, 2011

Five Things That Are Worse Than Being in Debt

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3 comments:

Theresa Bruno said...: I enjoyed her comment about children. People think we're crazy to have another child in a two bedroom home, but I say we're crazy not too. I'm not getting any younger. A big house may come later. Meanwhile I'll have plenty of cuddles.; January 17, 2011 at 11:09:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Isn't that the truth....Children are the ultimate earthly treasure.; January 17, 2011 at 8:32:00 PM EST
Julygirl said...: I used to trust in God to keep bad things from happening to me, (unrealistic), ...now I trust in Him to help me through the bad times which inevitably happen in this life.; January 18, 2011 at 12:16:00 PM EST