je n'avais plus de place, 'I had no room left

1. 33. il lui prit fantaisie. This use of prendre with a dative (to settle on, attach oneself to), is confined to attacks of disease and to the sudden occurrence of some feeling or desire. It is almost always used impersonally, as here, il lui prit un frisson, envie, &c. E.B. 10a,

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1. 3. l'esprit de gloire et l'esprit de piraterie. A familiar illustration of the former is Napoleon's speech to his troops before the Battle of the Pyramids. ' ' Songez que du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles vous contemplent." For the latter compare his speech before the first Italian campaign. "Je vais vous conduire dans les plus fertiles plaines du monde, vous y trouverez de grandes villes et de riches provinces, vous y trouverez honneur, gloire, et richesses."

1. 8. Charles XII, of Sweden (1652 — 1718). When he was but 18, Denmark, Russia and Poland formed a league to humble Sweden, which had attained a high position under Gustavus Adolphus and his successors. Charles completely defeated them, and from that time forward was constantly engaged in war. He was a brilliant soldier, but naturally enough a military adventurer rather than a statesman with a settled policy. Read Byron's Mazeppa and the passage in Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, ending

"He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale."