I. après les offices, after church

3. le traitent de démagogue, regard him as a démagogue (i.e. a dangerous leader of the people).

4. They are still French, after the lapse of another eighty years !

Pag'e 89. — grands parleurs, ^'big"" talkers, i.e. inclined to brag and bluster.

2. hommes à précédents, etc., men govemed by précédents, who ivish io see the j?iaJor premise { of a syllogism) established before paying any attention to the minor. In Logic every regular form of argument is made up of three propositions, the first two of which are called respectively the major and the 7ninor premise, and the last the conclusion, which necessarily follows from the premises. De Tocqueville's point is that the English are logical-minded.