me llyrer. Cf. 1. 506, note

592. 11 pétrissait, ' he kneaded,* as with pestle and mortar ; a strong metaphor.

600. quel que soit, 'whatever . . . maybe.' Soit, sah], Sifter quel que,

605. soit subj. aûer an impersonal verb — il importe peu que,

606. lui, dat. to voir, because écrire has a direct objecU See Appendix II. Rem.

607. Maintenir Tlndépendance. < To stand a barrier between the ambition of France and the independence of England is the first wish of my life, and in my death I would rather that my body, if it were possible, sbould be added to the rampart than trailed in a useless pomp through an idle crowd ' (to Lady Collingwood, Océan, 9th March 1808).

609. soit, subj. after verb expressing an émotion {pleasum^ pain, surprise, etc.).

6x2. Ne parles pas. ' Fiay do not talk about the wound in

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my leg, or people may think that I am vapouring aboat my dangers * (to Lady Collingwood, aSth May 1806).

615-16. il me donna . . . eraerre, ' he gave me the gauge of what a military man should be.'

6x7. en ambitieux. Cf. 1. 268, en esclave. Transi, 'not for ambitien*s sake.'

618- 19. tout en ... de hant, 'whilst judging it from a lofty standpoînt.*

620. Montecuculli, the generalissîmo of the Impérial troops of the Austrian Emperor, Leopold i., was opposed to Turenne, one of Louis xiv.*s best gênerais, on the Rhine, when the French king by an unjust war against the Dutch (1672-79) drew upon himself a war against the whole of Europe, ending in tl\e Treaties of Nimwegen (1678-9). Turenne was killed at Salzburg, in Alsace, in 1675.

621. engager la partie . . . ordinaire, ' engage in a game with a second-rate player.' War is hère considered as a game ; the Germans hâve a game, now becoming European, called Kriegspiel (* game of war *), in which campaigns and battles are carried on on paper.

626. les Rois du Midi : viz. the King and Queen of Naples, the Dey of Algiers, the Emperor of Morocco, the Bey of Tunis, the Pacha of Egypt.