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Of what gender is majesté

4-5. il ne se peut rien. Se pouvoir answers to the English to he xmssihle, or, therc can hc ; hence — 'il ne se peut rien de plus beau ' = thcre cannot he anything more hcnutiful. The construction may also be explained by supplying imaginer after se peut, ' il (impers. ) ne jieut s'imaginer rien;' render the rcjlcxivc verb by the ^jo^s^îvc voice, accoi'd- Ing to note to p. 2, 1. 11 — tlœre cannot unything more beaittiful he imagined.

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