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S^il est, • if there is

L 1292. Eux punis, * when once they hâve been punished.' Hère the disjunctive pronoun is used with a participle as an absolute case, like the Latin ablative absolute.

nous pourrons faire admirer au monde La nière^ 'we can make the world admire the mother.' The verb faire foUowed by the Infinitive of a transitive verb takes an accusative of the noun, pronoun or substantival clause govemed by the dépendent infinitive, and a dative of the noun or pronoun govemed by faire. For an explanation of this usage, see Eve, § 115.

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1. 1318. une molle élégie, Barbaroux, who was a handsome man till he grew too stout, was always engaged in some love affair ; but there never was more than frîendship between him and Charlotte Corday; and indeed, even if he had not already been in love with someone whom he styled Zélie or Zélis, Charlotte*s was not the character that would attract him.

L 1326. intérieure^ 'domestic'

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1. 1328. si, 'yes, I do.* Hère the word represents the Latin nr, not si. Compare 1. 1596.

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L 1846. je nCen suis fait une si forte loi^ * I hâve made that (patriodsm) so strict a nile for myself.'

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