M. F. auquel

13. M. F. ne peut nous ravir. The personal pronoun as complément stands before the infinitive except when used with faire and laisser. Ex. c'est le seul bien dont on nous laisse jouir.

14. M.F. on condamnait sa mémoire. In M.F. the pronoun en (Latin itide), when used as z.genitivet applies only to things.

15. = avec quel soin. 'Curieusement is taken hère in its etymological sensé (popular Latin curiosamente — stem cura, care).

16. Ancestor-worship was by no means confined to the Egyptians. See Fustel de Coulanges, Cite Antique, chap. ii.

17. Ases-Ka-w, a King of the fourth dynasty ; built some monuments, and was, accerding to Diodorus of Sicily, one of the five great lawgivers of Egypt.

18. Digérées, 'digested,' in the sensé of to arrange under heads.

19. Du boire et du manger. The use of thèse infinitives as nouns is much rarer in M.F. than it was during the Middle Agts and up to the middle of the eighteenth century. We should say : De la boisson et de la nourriture.

20. Two or more nominatives, the last of which is singular, may be followed by a singular verb in the syntax of the seventeenth century. It is an imitation of the Latin construction by which the verb understood after each subject agrées only with the last.

SI, Destinées, arranged beforehand.

22. Cf. 'The King can do no wrong,' a principle that was clearly established in 1678 by the Danbv case, it being decided that ' a minister cannot plead the royal commands in justification of an unconstitutional or illégal act* (Fielden, Constit. Uist., 1887, p. 143).

23. Bossuet, it must be rememt>ered, is addressing himself to the heir to a throne.

24. Thébains. The eleventh dynasty was of Theban origin. Thebes was the chief town of Upper Egypt. Its influence was paramount from the eleventh to the twentieth dynasty. See splendid description of Thebes given by Bossuet, p. 79.

25. Probably represent one and the same divinity— the Hermès of the Greeks, Mercury of the Romans, and Thot of the Egyptians.