manquer de, E.B. App. ill

1. 20. du Vrai, du Bon et du Beau. Evidently suggested by the title of a work of Victor Cousin (1792 — 1867), Du Vrai, du Beau et du Bien. Cousin's lectures were a conspicuous feature in the literature of the Restoration period.

1. 21. à cette recherche, ' to the search for it.' Notice the similar way in which we have sometimes to render the Latin is, etc. E.g. Liv. II. 3, " eorum verba postquam in senatu audita sunt, per aliquot dies ea consultatio (the discussion about them) tenuit. "

1. 23. de mon devoir. We say simply 'my duty,' E.B. 124, Obs. 2.