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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.

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

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

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

28. Indeed a 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 exterior pride, accessibled to anybodyf.

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say, went out of the country außer Landes gehen. damit -nicht. nöthigen. d aufheben. e remember, no Substantive follows in the same case. say, the other. & Gefeß, n. (pl. —e.)

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b take neuter of aller, e, es.

e say, the one. f bedürfen.

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of not, it is sondern. 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.

28. a war. b take the singular.

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Sittenlehre, f.

30. a Freundlichkeit. båußer. Stolz, m. dzugänglich. efür. fjedermann, of which only the Genitive has an 8, 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, blasphemyf, robberys, gamblingh, and duels.i

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

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34. Scenta is forb many a flower, what singing is to birds.

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

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.

31. ganz. b Deutschland, n.

cMannszucht, f. Schwedisch.

e unterscheiden. fin so creditable a manner so rühmlich. 32. aall. Ausschweifung (use the plural). severe streng, and mark, the superlative of an Adverb like streng is aufs strengste, when it means absolutely it was the most severe; dahnden. e but when it implies that it was comparatively the most severe, it is am strengsten. Gotteslåsterung. Räuberei, f. Spiel, n. i 1 Zweikampf, m.

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

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

VIII. ON PRONOUNS.

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

2. Give every man a his own.b

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3. Germany did not possess a second man likea Luther, and no other 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 fates threatened also those between the Elbej and Rhine.

6. The hair of queen Christina of Sweden was her greatest ornaments, but she bestowed no caree on it.f

1. a jeder, e, es. b bestimmt.

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Character, m. dirgend ein. ef characteristic feature Characterzug, m. 8 welcher or der. h ausschließlich. ivorzugsweise. Jbeilegen.

2. ajeder. bmy own is das Meine or das Meinige.

3. a wie. b no other fein andrer, keine andre, kein andres. csay, of the modern neuer. 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. d Schaden, m. e leiden.

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5. a say, which were inhabited bewohnen. b das linke Ufer. ©einschließen. drömisch. e Herrschaft. fderselbe, dieselbe, dasselbe. 8 Schicksal, n. h drohen with Dat. ider, die, das, Pron. Demonstr., which is used to avoid the repetition of a Substantive before mentioned. die Elbe. 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.

7. We are all creatures a of the same God.

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8. Humble is he who regards all his treasures d b voluntary and undeserved presents from the hand of Providence.i

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9. Only these animals are speaking by signs, to whichd the living soundf 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 a man, whose heroism b consisted in the bold confession of truth, whose swordf was the word, whose armours his confidence in Godi, whose pride his poverty?

12. There are a 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 frost m.

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

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a bescheiden. b cf. note 4 a. e betrachten. e frei= willig. funverdient. & Geschenk, n. (pl.-e). haus. iVorsehung. 9. a derjenige or der. durch. Zeichen, n. dwelder 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. fLaut, m. sversagen.

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10. a3unge, f. bschon. machen. hersagen. eSinn, m. f 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. kühn. Bekenntniß, n. eWahrheit. f Schwert, n. Rüstung. hiGottvertrauen, n. ¡Stolz, m. Armuth, f. 12. aes giebt with Acc. Witterung. hindurch. auch wohl. eheiß. Bewohner. bedürfen. Feuerung. Gebäude, n. Kleidung. kzu with the Def. article. Schuß, m. "Frost, m.

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

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

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15. Who often associates with bad men, him wed shall soon take for their companion.

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

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Who in former times a suffered fromb want of d 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 millions of human beings there is perhaps only one single person who knows so to exertd his mind

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19. The idea ofb that which the world requires was

early formed in the mind of Göthe.

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Thou art," said Solon to Croesus,

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

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

16. a aus. b Erfahrung. indirect question is always was. heit.

lebhaft. hunpaß.

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17. a ehemals. bleiden to suffer from, dan, Dat. e Lebensbedürfniß, n. (pl. —e).

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h Wohlstand, m. (Gen.—es). i derjenige. I von Jugend auf. « Ueber

fluß, m. (Gen.-es).

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18. aunter. 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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fich bilden. in the mind of express through bei.

20. a gewaltig.

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