EIGHTEENTH WEEK. 



EGRETS are idle ; yet history is one 

 long regret. Everything might have 

 turned out so differently ! If Ravail- 

 lac had not been imprisoned for debt, he would 

 not have stabbed Henry of Navarre. If Wil- 

 liam of Orange had escaped assassination by 

 Philip's emissaries ; if France had followed the 

 French Calvin, and embraced Protestant Cal- 

 vinism, as it came very near doing towards the 

 end of the sixteenth century ; if the Continen- 

 tal ammunition had not given out at Bunker's 

 Hill ; if Blucher had not " come up " at Water- 

 loo, the lesson is, that things do not come up 

 unless they are planted. When you go behind 



