162 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



EIGHTEENTH WEEK. 



EGRETS are idle; yet history is 

 one long regret. Every thing 

 might have turned out so differently ! 

 If Ravaillac had not been imprisoned 

 for debt, he would not have stabbed 

 Henry of Navarre. If William of 

 Orange had escaped assassination by 

 Philip s emissaries; if France had fol 

 lowed the French Calvin, and embraced 

 Protestant Calvinism, as it came very 

 near doing towards the end of the six 

 teenth century ; if the Continental 

 ammunition had not given out at Bun 

 ker s Hill ; if Blucher had not &quot; come 

 up&quot; at Waterloo the lesson is, that 

 things do not come up unless they are 

 planted. When you go behind the his- 



