Note 311 — APPENDIX.

Here Suvórof is a little in his favourite character of the buffoon. He generally closed his harangues by endeavouring to excite laughter among his troops; and this mode of forming a climax is a peculiar characteristic of the conversation of the Russian boors. In this manner:—“And not only of the boors, but of the gentry; and not only of the gentry, but the nobles; and not only of the nobles, but the emperors.”