-- "1 Henry IV", Act v., Scene 4.

(6) This had taken place in B.C.54, about five years before the

(7) This famous line was quoted by Lamartine when addressing the

French Assembly in 1848. He was advocating, against the

interests of his own party (which in the Assembly was all-

powerful), that the President of the Republic should be

chosen by the nation, and not by the Assembly; and he ended

by saying that if the course he advocated was disastrous to