Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. vii. cap

9. 27. Cf. 'S*il faut pousser à toute outrance ce passage de St. Paul.*

{JBosstut^ 10. 6. Front, dignity. Ironically de quel front means * with what impudence.* 10. II. Tout cendre qtCil est (in the first éditions). 10. 16. In thelauguage of the I7thcentury, an infinitive used passively iSitT laisser was followed by à, when it is now foUowed hy par. Je me laissai séduire à cet aimable guide, {/Racine.) This construction bas remained in the popular expression : laisser manger un habit aux vers, and still obtains in the causative voice, as : fai fait faire un habit à ce tailleur, 10. 18. 'La première expression de ce portrait contient un des secrets particuliers du style de Bossuet.* {La Harpe.) It is to be noticed that the name of Cromwell is not mentioned once. 10. 25. Cf. Sallust on Catiline : Animus audax, subdolus, varius ; cujus rei libet simulaior ac dissimulator; and : nunquam super industriam ejusfortunafuit,