The Prussians, with their fine magnanimity, gave lectures on the hereditary maladies of the man they had murdered.

They could not conceive of life in those limbs; and the time was far off when they should be undeceived.

In that day five nations were to partake not of the body, but of the spirit of Poland; and the trumpet of the resurrection of the peoples should be blown from Warsaw to the western isles.
III--_The Enigma of Waterloo_ That great Englishman Charles Fox, who was as national as Nelson, went to his death with the firm conviction that England had made Napoleon.

He did not mean, of course, that any other Italian gunner would have done just as well; but he did mean that by forcing the French back on their guns, as it were, we had made their chief gunner necessarily their chief citizen.

Had the French Republic been left alone, it would probably have followed the example of most other ideal experiments; and praised peace along with progress and equality.