[1] Who would have thought that these two champions of Infidelity,
who were refused Christian burial, would one day, have assigned to
their remains, the first church of France, and one of the first in
Christendom, as their mausoleum. I wonder if Jean Jaques, in his
prophetic visions, foresaw this?
[2] A nest of students has lately been detected in this employment.
[3] Racine told the Duc de Maine, who was anxious for a place at the
old Academy, that there was no place vacant; but there was no member,
he said, who would not be glad to die to accommodate him--“_qui ne tint
à grand honneur de mourir, pour lui en faire une_”--and Racine said
this seriously.
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
One called the ‘Montyon Prize,’=> One is called the ‘Montyon Prize,’ {pg
95}
Their number about fifty thousand=> Their number is about fifty thousand
{pg 103}
and so screamed on the theatre=> and so screamed in the theatre {pg 187}