a distance of fourteen leagues. Having ascended the steep

understand the style in which they were written, though he

understood all our good authors perfectly. "All," says he, "I see

in these elegant discourses is, that the member elect having assured

the audience that his predecessor was a great man, that Cardinal

Richelieu was a very great man, that the Chancellor Seguier was a

pretty great man, that Louis XIV. was a more than great man, the

director answers in the very same strain, and adds, that the member

elect may also be a sort of great man, and that himself, in quality