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IV. ON THE DECLENSION OF NOUNS PROPER.

1. I always read with pleasure Virgil's books on b agriculture, and the celebrateda ode of Horace on the beauty of country life.h

2. Homer compares a the lovelyb voice of Nestor to the sound of a cicada.g

3. We visited the grave of that excellent, by friend and foe respecteda, Günther.

4. She moved a the succession of her cousin, the Count Palatinate, Charles Gustavus.f

5. You then wished to appear in the character a of robber Moorb in Schiller's first tragedy.c

6. Raumer has written the history of the Emperor a Frederich the second.

7. That has occurred a in the reign of Duked Charles.

von. f

Nouns proper, without preceding article, have in Genitive an 8; the other cases are unchanged. b C c Landbau, and do not forget the article. berühmt. e Ode. Horaz, and mark, Nouns proper, ending in a hissing sound, are avoided in the Genitive, unless the Article is put before them, as, des Horaz; or the Genitive is expressed by vom, von dem. s über. Candleben, n.

2. a vergleichen. lieblich. c Stimme, f. d this can be expressed by des Nestor, or by Nestors, which, however, is to be placed after compares. emit. fon, m. 8 Cicade, f. 3. a besuchen. Grab, n. cbrav. dachten.

b. a Rolle, f. b although robber is in itself only a common name, still having as a character in a great play received an uncommon celebrity, it is treated like a Noun proper; in the same way are regarded Kaiser Friedlich, Herzog Karl, and some other. Traue= spiel, n.

6. Kaiser. Friedrich (cf. Note 5. b).

7. a sich ereignen. unter. c Regierung. say either Herzog Karls, or des Herzog Karl (cf. Note 5. b).

8. Hiero had the good sense to retain Simonides and Pindar at his court.

9. Name a to me that poet who dares to compare himself to Homer and Virgil.

10. The victory on the white mountain placed a Ferdinand in possession of all his states.c

11. Nothing looked less likea Elizabeth than to promise, when she was still uncertain, whether she could keepd it.

12. I found Julia quite so again, as I had seen her five years before at Mannheim.

13. The heirs of Margaret were her best friends, since b she had lost her only child, Clara.

14. A considerable a part of Brabant resisted the arms of Duke Alexander of Parma.

15. The death of Socrates has been describeda by his two pupils and admirers, Plato and Xenophon.

16.

The Irokese a blackenb the face of him who overcomes his neighbour by telling a falsehood.e

17. The Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent received from Burleigh the commission to assist at the execution of the death-warrant.f

14.

15.

a sehen. b Besik, m. e Staat, m. (pl. —en).
a ähnlich. bmo. cob. dhalten.

a Erbe, m. b nachdem.

a bedeutend. bwiderstehen, which is inseparable.
a beschreiben.

Schüler. Bewunderer.

16. Irokese, m. b schwärzen. © derjenige. d besiegen. telling a falsehood express by the adverbially used Participle Present of lügen.

17. a Graf (G.—en). b Auftrag, m. beiwohnen, and mark, the Particle zu stands between the two compounds. d at the express

by the Dative. e Vollziehung Todesurtheil, n.

18. They appeared on the seventh of February in Fotheringay, announced their intention, and pointed outc the next day as the last in Mary's life.

V. ON THE DECLENSION OF ADJECTIVES.

1. In those countries which are most blessed by nature, men are generally lazy, ignorant and rude.s

2. The ancients are by no means dead', as people d are accustomed to say; only their languages are dead; the spirits, which breathes in the latter, is eternally j alive.

3. The noble* mind raises the crippled above others who merely possess a beautiful person.s

4. Is it just or unjust to allow amongd brothers and sisters a distinction which destroys alls mutual confidence1?

18. averkündigen. Absicht, F. *bezeichnen. dfolgend.

cam

1. express by the Pronoun Dem, der, die, das. b Land, n. meisten. gesegnet, and mark, Adjectives are not declined, when they are the Predicates in sentences. *faul. funwissend. Kroy.

2. aalt, and observe, 1) Substantives, which originally are Adjectives, are declined like the latter; 2) Adjectives, preceded by the Def. Article, or Pronouns Dem. and Relat., have in Nom. Sing, an e, and en in the other cases, except the Acc. Sing., Neut., and Fem., which must be like their Nom., and therefore have e. keinesweges. clodt. dwie man. e to be accustomed pflegen. f Sprache, f. Geist, m. wehen. i say, in these in diesen; observe, the first and the latter are often expressed by the Pronouns Demonstr. jener and dieser. jewig. * Lebendig.

3. a edel. b Seele, f. cerheben. d Krüppel, m. e über, Acc. fbloß. & Körper, m.

4. a recht. bunrecht. edulden. dunter, Dat. faufheben. galler, alle, alles, Adjective as the Def. Article.

Rangordnung, f. which has the same power before the bwechselseitig. Vertrauen, n.

5. A simple and inarticulateb sound excites already a darke idea of the being from which it issues.j

6. Sight and hearing are the noblest senses.c

7, Even among Negroes one finds beautifuld faces. 8. The gratefula citizens erected monuments to the fallen warriors.

9. For propera dogs of draught they choose in Siberiad especially those which have high legs, long ears", a pointed muzzle3, a broad back, and a big1 head.m

10. Between wisdom and virtue there is a great difference.a

11. The wise man is always prudenta, but the prudent man is not always wise.

12. We often say, he is a sensiblea man, of a person',

5. a einfach, and observe, if an Indef. Article precedes the Adjective, the latter has in the Nom. Sing. the terminations of the Def. Article er, e, es, as, ein guter Knabe, eine gute Mutter, ein gutes Buch. The other cases have en, except Acc. Fem. and Neut. Sing., which must be like their Nom.; therefore eine gute Mutter, ein gutes Buch are both the Nom. and the Acc. bunartikulirt. Laut, m. derregen. e dunkel. Vorstellung. of, when it means i aus, Dat. J kommer.

as much as about, is von, Dat.

Wesen, n. h

c Sinn, m.

dsdön, and mark, if an Ad

6. a das Gesicht. das Gehör. 7. aselbst. b Neger, m. c man. jective is preceded neither by an Article nor Pronoun, it is declined like the Def. Article, as, gut er Mann, gute Frau, gutes Kind, gut es Mannes, etc. Gesicht, n. (this word has in Plural esidter, when meaning face, but Gesichte, when meaning vision). 8. a dankbar. Bürger. cerrichten. Denkmal, n.

lich.

9. eigentlich. Zughund, m. wählen. Sibirien. evorzugfhoch, and mark, all words terminating in d), lose the c, when prolonged by a syllable beginning with e. Bein, n (pl. —e, against Ohr, n. (pl. —en). i spiß. ¡ Schnauze, f.

the rule).

12.

Kreuz, n.

b klug. Mensch, m. (declined in the cases like an Adjective, which it originally was).

who only transacts his affairs with much acuteness, and who sometimes does not feelf any great scruples about a bad trick.

13. This is a malicious policy.

14. Appearance goes far in the world; we, therefore, ought also to value the good appearance.

16. The prison* was seized by the fire; the flames d raged in a terrible way, and with them a swarm of criminals), who else) were hidden*, but now set at liberty1 in consequence of this occurrence."

17. He gave them bad food to eat, and bad garmentsb to cover themselves with.d

18. Agriculture often is a faithful guardian of patriotic virtues, and an excellente school of a simple, pious disposition.

19. The feeling of one's own sufferings as well as the sight of foreign ones makes most men dissatisfied.ħ 20. All sufferings of living beings are, according to

4 Geidäft, n. (pl. —e).

Feinheit. say, makes to * Sewissen, n. hüber, Acc. iStreich, m. Klugheit.

e betreiben.
himself no great.
13. * boshaft.
14. *der Schein.
ten auf, Acc.

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15. a sonderbar.