se disloquait, ' was beiiig dismantled

95. Chaque mouvement . . . , ' Ëach movement of the careering carronade was rendering more imminent the foundering of the vessel.' — Am. Ed.

96. Prendre un parti, ' corne to some décision.' Cf. Ma résolution ett jmte; j'irai attaquer le premier qui se déclarera . . . (Voltaire, Charte» XII, bk. ii.) ; also J'en ai prie mon parti, ' I ara resigned to the inévitable ' {i.e. as to what course I «hnll t^ike uiider the ciroumatances). Puni, masc., means ' a faction,' or ' politii-al party.' Part, fem. (Lat. partem), ' a sbare ; ' partt'e, fem. (Lat rem partitum), 'apart^of unythiug. The distinction outwoen paH and partie bas bem clearly dcfîned by Girard. Lu partie, be snys, is what is detached from tlie whole; la part is that wliioh is to fall to the »hare of each. The flrot of the two relater to ansemlilage, the second to right of property. We say ntie partie <l'un livre et une partie du corps humain ; but une part de gâteau, une part d'enlaut ilans la succession {i.e. a chilii's sliaie in fatl.er or mother's pruperty). Tlicre is no idea of distribution in /lart as there is in partie; it is coiisiilereil in itsi'lf as forming a whole (Indupeiide'itly of anytliing). Cf. être le partage de, ' to be the lot of ; ' tomber en partage, ' to fall to tlie lot of.'