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22. On the first of November it rose at half-past sixa, and set at half-past four.

23. On the eleventh of October it rose at a quarterpast six, and set at a quarter-past five.

24. On the twenty-first of September it rose sixteen minutes to six, and set one minute past six.

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25. Solon left his country a lest he might be compelled to abolish one or anotherf of his laws.g

26. A country does not produce everything, but possesses d one thing, and lacks the others; thus also man alone does not suffice himself,-he possesses one thing, and lacks the other.

27. The fifteenth century, with Philip de Comines as his text booka, seems to have been the chief sphere of Arnold's studies in modernd history.

`` 28. Indeeda the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries b have produced only few great authors in German f; but these few are the more remarkable.

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29. The shorta abstract of all religion and rule of conduct is: fear God, and love thy neighbour as thyself. 30. This great man was by his affability, without any exteriorb pride, accessibled to anybodyf.

22. ai.e. half (towards) seven.

24. a auf. bnach).

25. a say, went out of the country außer Landes gehen. bdamit -nicht. nöthigen. d aufheben. e remember, no Substantive follows

in the same case. f say, the other. g Geseß, n. (pl. —e.)

26. a hervorbringen.

b take neuter of aller, e, es. cas a denial e say, the one. fbedürfen. g take

of not, it is sondern. d besigen.

the neuter. h genügen.

27. a Leitfaden, say, for the zu dem, contracted zum. b Hauptschauplak, m. Studium. n., and Latin Substantives in ium have in German ien in plural. d say, in the modern neuer.

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Sittenlehre, f.

30. Freundlichkeit. außer. Stolz, m. dzugänglich. efür. fjedermann, of which only the Genitive has an §, as sign of declension.

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31. The whole ofa Germany admired the discipline by which the Swedishd armies distinguished themselves in so creditable a manner.f

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32. Every extravagance was in the most severe way¢ punished; most severely, blasphemy, robbery, gamblingh, and duels.i

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33. Every fatigue of war the king bore liked the commonest soldier off the army.

34. Scenta is forb

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35. During the long course of our life, one must experience much, and sufferd much, that one would gladlyf not experience.

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36. The students, who were dissatisfied with the behavioura of the citizens, were accustomed, in order to annoy them, to leave the town in great numbers, and ate such occasions, they first promenaded f four and fours in a line through all the chief streets of the place.

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b Deutschland, n.

cMannszucht, f.

31. ganz. d Schwedisch. e unterscheiden. fin so creditable a manner so rühmlich. 32. aall. Ausschweifung (use the plural). mark, the superlative of an Adverb like streng when it means absolutely it was the most severe ; when it implies that it was comparatively the most

strengsten. kampf, m.

Gotteslåsterung.

Räuberei, f.

severe streng, and is aufs strengste, dahnden. e but severe, it is am iZwei

Spiel, n.

33. aall. bungemach, n. cerdulden. gleich with Dat. Gemeinste. faus.

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34. a Geruch, m. bexpressed by the Dat. mancher, e, es. dGe=

fang, m.

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35. Zeit, f. b man. c erleben.

ferring to something indefinite is was. f gern.

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36. a Benehmen, n. b Bürger. cårgern.

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fziehen. & distributive numbers are formed by putting je (which is as much as immer always) before the cardinal numbers. straße, f.

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VIII. ON PRONOUNS.

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1. Every animal has its distinct character, or somed characteristic feature which we exclusively and especially attribute to it.

2. Give every mana his own.b

3. Germany did not possess a second man like a Luther, and no other b nation of modern times has to show his like.e

4. He is mischievous who rejoices at the loss which another has sustained.e

5. All countries inhabited by Germans on the left of the Rhine had been incorporated into the Roman Empire®, and the same f fates threatened also those between the Elbej and Rhine.

6. The hair of queen Christina of Sweden was her greatest ornament, but she bestowed no care

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1. a jeder, e, es. b bestimmt. ef characteristic feature Characterzug, m. 8 welcher or der. schließlich. ivorzugsweise. Jbeilegen.

2. a jeder. bmy own is das Meine or das Meinige. 3. a wie.

bno other fein andrer, keine andre, kein andres. csay, of the modern neuer. d take the singul. e my like is in German a Genitive, meines Gleichen, which means of my like (understand station), from the Nominative mein Gleiches my like station.

4. a he who is a) derjenige welcher when it refers to a certain individual, but b) when it refers to mankind in general, he is not translated, and who is expressed by wer. bschadenfroh. sich freuen über, Acc. Schaden, m. e leiden.

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5. say, which were inhabited bewohnen. b das linke Ufer. ©ein= schließen. drömisch. e Herrschaft. fderselbe, dieselbe, dasselbe. g Schicksal, n. h drohen with Dat. i der, die, das, Pron. Demonstr., which is used to avoid the repetition of a Substantive before mentioned. die Elbe.

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6. a Haar, n. b say, of the. c Schmuck, m. d verwenden. e Sorgfalt, f. fmark, when the pronouns der, die, das, or er, sie, es, are joined in their neuters to prepositions, they are changed into the Adv. da, and placed before the preposit., and when the latter begins with a vowel an r is inserted, as durch das, dadurch; auf das, darauf.

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We are all creatures a of the same God.

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Humblea is he who regards all his treasures as voluntary and undeserved f presents from the hand of Providence.i

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9. Only these animals are speaking by signs, to whichd the living sound has been denied %.

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10. The tongue a even of some birds is formed to be able to repeat human words, the sense of which they certainly do not comprehend".

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11. Do you know the name of that man, whose heroism consisted in the bold confession of truth, whose swordf was the word, whose armours his confidence in God', whose pride his poverty?

12. There are great countries on the earth, in which the weatherb is, the whole year through, so mild, or perhaps even hote, that their inhabitants need neither fuel, nor buildings i, nor dress ask protection' against the frostm.

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13. In the lives of most men there are far more healthy days, than days, in which they are ill.

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8. a bescheiden. bcf. note 4 a. e betrachten. C willig. funverdient. & Geschenk, n. (pl.—e). 1aus. Vorsehung. 9. a derjenige or der. durch. Zeichen, n. dwelcher or der; the latter, as a relative Pronoun, has dessen, deren, dessen in Gen. Sing.; deren in Gen. Pl., and denen in Dat. Pl. elebendig. Laut, m. versagen. 10. Zunge, f. schon. machen. dhersagen. Sinn, m. of which is to be put before the sense, and the article, of course, omitted. & doch. b begreifen.

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11. ajener. Heldenthum, n. ckühn. Bekenntniß, n. eWahrheit. fSchwert, n. Rüftung. hiGottvertrauen, n. ¡Stolz, m. Armuth, f.

12. es giebt with Acc. Witterung. chindurch. dauch wohl. eheiß. fBewohner. bedürfen. Feuerung. Gebäude, n. Kleidung. kzu with the Def. article. 'Schuh, m. mFrost, m.

13. Take the Singular. die allermeisten. To be expressed with fein. Take the Genitive.

14. There are a far more years, in which the harvests b thrive well, than such in which we have to complain about realf failure".

15. Whoa often associates b with bad men, him wed shall soon take for their companionf.

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16. He who knows froma experience what illness is, knows and feels the bliss of healthf far more lively than he who never was indisposed.h

17. Who in former times a suffered fromb want ofd the necessities of life, him the enjoyment of his presents prosperity renders far more happy than a man1 who from his youth was living in abundance.k

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18. Among a millions of human beings there is perhaps only one single person who knows so to exert his mind that it yields all that it can yield.

19. The ideaa ofb that which the world requires was early formed in the mind ofe Göthe.

20. "Thou art," said Solon to Croesus, "mightilya

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14. Cf. Note 12. a. Frucht. gerathen. dElagen. eüber, A. feigentlich. Mißwachs, m.

15. a Cf. Note 4. a. bumgehen. «der, and mark, this Pronoun demonstrative, when standing after wer, can be omitted; but only, when both occur in the Nominative case. d express by one man. e halten. f Gesell, m. (Gen.—en).

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f Genuß, m.

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17. a ehemals. bleiden to suffer from, dan, Dat. e Lebensbedürfniß, n. (pl. —e). Wohlstand, m. (Gen.—es). iderjenige. I von Jugend auf. fluß, m. (Gen.-es).

18. aunter.

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b Mensch, m. (Gen. en). einzig, in masculine. a anstrengen. ehergeben. faller, e, es. g the relative that, when referring to something general, is either das or was.

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19. Vorstellung. bvon. bedürfen. take the reflective form, fich bilden. in the mind of express through bei.

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20. gewaltig.

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