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Un vrai démocrate - - - - Pa,ris- The Athenian

democracy set before itself ideals of art and government. The Farisian democracy, according to our author, were proceeding to put into efifect principles subversive of human existence.

5.— Triples portes — à deux battants- Une porte à deux battants=â folding door. Hence, render, ‘ the triple gates flew wide open,’ or ‘ the folds of . .flew open.’ “ And thr^ce threefold the gates ; three fold^ were brass,

Three ir«h, three of adamantine v< ck,

Impénétrable.”

— Paradise Lost, Book II.

9.— Qui aurait pu couvrir un© armée. In Milton this description is applied to the Gates of Hell.

“ ïhe gates wide open stood,

That with extehded wings a banner’d host.

Under ensigns marching might pass through,”

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