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487. Jlral loin, yoili tout, * I shall go lar (le. «succeed *), that's ail the différence.'

487-8. n n'y en a . . . arrivés, ' Two only succeeded in life.' Scient subjunct. after ne • • . que followed by the relative pronoun.

489. Oliver Cromwell was bom in 1599. Though he became a member for Huntingdon in 1628, and in 1640 for Cambridge in the Short Parliament and the Long Parliament, theie is little record of his proceedings for two years, except that he was an active member. He girded on his armour at the mature âge of forty-three, when Charles I. left Whitehall (Jan. 12, 1642), and from this time forward he was a man of mark. Jean-Jacques, se Rousseau, one of the greatest writers

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and thinkers of the last century (bom 1712, died 1778). He was the son of a watchmaker at Geneva ; though he was in turn engraver*s apprentice, priest, valet, music-master, tutor, and private secretary, he educated himself, and in 1749 and 1753 won two prizes offered by the Academy of Dijon for an essay ; the latter, upon ' L'origine de Tin^alité parmi les hommes/ made his réputation, and started him as a man of letters. He was then forty-one.

490. cents. N,B, s, because ' cent ' is multiplied by douze, and not followed by another numeraL

492-3 II y a . . . tMitaUles, ' Some men*s work is buildings, colours, forms or phrases ; my work is battles.'