en siget. cf. note p. X

37. — 2. oahien, lesolations (distribated in the fonn of eokiers, ' copj-books/ to each member of an aesembly).

8. Xontesqnien (1689-1766), the famoos author ef 'L'esprit des lois ' (1748), a philosophical treatise on laws geneially.

39.-17. La Bruyère (1644-96), French anthor of oelebritj, pablished in 1687 his great work ' Les oaractèies de Théophraste, tradnits du Grec, avec les caractères on les mœurs de ce siècle.'