Materials for German Prose Composition: Or, Selections from Modern English WritersPutnam, 1885 - 252 páginas |
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¹¹ 11 Turn 9 Turn accusative adverb ALICE attributive adjective auxiliary verb Bedouin briefly called clause compound expression compound term conditional mood corresponding foreign Cranford dative definite article denoting dered employed enemy England English Enniskilleners equivalent expletive expres expressed in German Extr extract father fich finite verb form in German French genitive German language Goethe grammatical Greek horse idiomatic indem Insert King können ladies land language laſſen Latin letter Lord machen means Meilen mental band nehmen never night note to Ext noun omitted passive voice person phrase placed plural preceding preposition present participle pression pronoun proper name refers rendered in German requires in German Retain Roman round rule SAMSON Schiller sense sentence ſich signifies simply singular sion stands supine Supply synonymous thing tion tive town transl Translate troops Urceola Elastica waren whilst whole wohl word
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Página 233 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Página 233 - Yet It is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than Chess.
Página 233 - My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which Eetzsch has depicted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul. Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong angel who is playing for love, as we say, and would rather lose than win — and I should accept it as an image of human life.
Página 233 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Página 232 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check?
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