CHAP. VII.] NOTES

Nage^ fem. subst., is now rather obsolète, except in the expression à la nage = par la nage. Natation is the substantive commonly uscd.

1. 3. et M. Pitt à leur tête. Mr Macknight, in his Life of Burke, taunts Pitt with being incapable of grasping a sound, magnanimous and gênerons policy. William Pitt (1759 — 1806) was as distinctly opposed by Burke as by Fox in his dealings with the French Revolutionists.