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il y a de cela, it is since then

35. vint à nommer, happened to name. Note also venir de, 1 to hâve just ;' venir pour, also venir without a préposition, * to corne to,' ' to come in order to.'

35. M. Petit-Radel. Louis Charles François Petit-Radel, a distinguished archœologist, born in Paris in 1756, died in 1836. He established in the Mazarine Library a muséum of Pelasgic remains, and has left several important works upon archaeological subjects.

74, — 17. pour peu qu'il s'y trouve, if onîy there is found there. More literally, ' however little there be found there.'

22. Rentre en toi-même, etc. Thèse lines occur in Corneille's tragedy of Cinna, Act IV., se. II., 11. 10, 11.

34. Sprengel, a German physician and botanist, born in 1766, died in 1821. Itis especially as an historian that Rprengel has distinguished himself in modem médical literature. He was the first to trace the connection between the history of medicine and that of civilization, and of the sciences in gênerai.

76.— 7. on n'a point de prise sur eux, onehasno hold upon them.

8. voyez plutôt Thérèse, see Theresa for example. Note this peculiar use of plutôt, l radier.' It means, often, 1 rather than hear me describe it,' and then voyez plutôt = l see for yourself.'

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