The historian is as the general, who stands elevated on the high ground, and, with telescope in hand, sees plainly all the different movements of the troops.

He would be an inconsiderate general, who would expect that his officers in action should have had as clear an idea of what was going on, as he himself had been able to obtain.
There was no murder perpetrated during the French Revolution, under the pretext of a judicial sentence, which has created more general disgust than has that of Marie Antoinette.

She came as a stranger to the country, which on that account owed to her its special protection.

She had been called to France to be a Queen, and her greatest crime was that she would not give up the high station she had been invited to fill.

She had been a faithful wife to a husband who did not love her till he knew her well, and who was slow in learning anything.