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Line 6.—Peu importe— Are of little importance—Translate after l'opinion. .....continuelles,

Line 8.—Compromis &c—Injured by constant disturbances.

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Line 16.—Par cela &e—['rom the very fact that he was : monarch.

Line 21.—Le tiers &int—The third Estate—1.e., the Commons as distinguished from the Nobility and thg Clergy.

Line 30.—Reéligible— Elisible for re-election, Re-eligible is given in the dictionaries as an English word, but it is suarcely ever used.

Line 41.—Pour moitié &e-—Only 80 far as half the memhers are concerned.

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Line 1.--Combien indéeises &e—How undecided, unpractical, and sometimes even contradictory, were his ideas as to political organization in general.

Line 7.—fonetion—Duty.

Tir 17.—véglementé &e—Controlled, and not taken advantage of,

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Line 18.—Desquels-—s#rom whom.

Line 29.--Menées—Schemes.

32,—que de-—JIn such sentences que has a conductive or appositive force. Itis frequently u: 2d in this way between two nouns as—c'est une passion dangereuse que le jeu— Gaming is a dangerous passion,

Line 33.—Chez qui—In the case of the man who.

Line 35.—Immixtion dans—Concern with.

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Line 19.—frein—Restraint—literally, bridle. Compare the figurative use of the English word ‘“ unbridled.”