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2. After this prayera of the priestess, the two youths fell asleep in the temple, and never arose again.

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3. The imperiala dignity had formerly only descended d upon the sons of princes.

4. The Danube, which arises in Germany, breaks through in the south-eastern mountains, and runs away from the Germans through distant boundaries1, and through foreign nations.

5. She has, in spite of all resistance", prevailed with her opinion, because she was penetrated by its truth.

6. The events a which have, from the remotest times", exercised a great influenced on the fate of the humanf race, were ever the migrations of tribes.1

7. The time of adventure, of romantic enterprises, is gone by, and never returns.e

8. Everbody likes to deal with punctual people.

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2. a Gebet, n. Priesterin, f.

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Jüngling. deinschlafen. eaufstehen. kaiserlich. b Würde, f. c ehemals. d sich forterben, which is separable, and the ge in the Part. Past must be placed between the two compounding parts.

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4. a Donau, f. bentspringen. © Deutschland. adurchbrechen, and mark, verbs compounded with durch, über, unter, um, hinter, voll, are separable when the chief stress lies on these particles, and when they give the Verbs their peculiar character. e südöstlich. Gebirg,n. (pl.-e). & fortlaufen, hfern. Grenze, f. 5. a trok with Gen. Widerstand, m. durchdringen, lit. urged through; it is therefore separable, and as a Verb neuter implying a change of condition is conjugated with sein. d durchdringen, this is inseparable, because the meaning is changed from the literal sense, to urge through, and is now synonymous with to be perfectly convinced; therefore durch appears like a prefix, and the ge in the Past. Part. is omitted.

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6. a Ereigniß, n. (pl.—e). bvon jeher. c ausüben. d Einfluß, m e Schicksal, n. fmenschlich. & Geschlecht, n. Wanderung. i Völ=

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7. a Abenteuer, n., take the plural with the Def. Art. bromantisch. Unternehmung. dvorbei sein, and mark, the compounded particle vorbei follows the rule of the simple. zurückkehren.

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a say, deals gladly umgehen, lit. to walk about. b pünktlich.

9. Even glorious a truth is abused by many.

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10. The language of many savage tribes is so poor, that notions which are familiard to us, must be circumscribede for them.

11. The sky in spring is often overclouded, and the earth covered with fogs.c

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12. Oak trees often grow so large, that they can only be spanned by three persons.

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13. The first circumnavigation was undertaken by Magellan; but the most famous of all who have sailed round the earth remains Cook.

14. He crossed a the oceanb in all directions, and surpassed all his predecessors in courage and perseverance: he perished during his last voyage.k

15. The length of America obliges the seamen to saild fare round when they intend to pass from the eastern coasts of America to the East Indies.h

9. a herrlich. b mißbrauchen, and mark, verbs active compounded with miẞ, are like the neuter inseparable, but they differ from the latter in one point, the ge is in these always omitted; in the first it can be omitted, or placed before the two component parts, as gemißbraucht or mißbraucht, but mißglückt and not gemißglückt.

10. a wild. Volk, n. (pl. Vôlker). © Begriff, m. (pl.—e) dge= wöhnlich. eumschreiben, which must be inseparable.

11. a umwölken, therefore inseparable, and bumziehen, likewise, cf. Note 5 b. c Nebel, m.

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12. a Eiche, f. werden. cumspa'nnen is to span, but u'mspannen is to put other horses to; the first is inseparable, the latter, separable. 13. a Umschiffung. bunternehmen, inseparable. c berühmt. dumsegeln is separable as a Verb neuter, and inseparable as a Verb active, because the first refers more to the direction u'm, and the latter to the action se'geln.

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durchschiffen, separable as neuter, inseparable as active, meaning, to visit the ocean everywhere. Ocean,m. cnach. aRichtung.

übertre'ffen. Vorgänger. g an. h Ausdauer, f. i umkommen,

separable, because it means lit. to come round, i. e. to the end, from which the motion began. auf. Reise, f.

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Länge, f. bzwingen. weit. du'msegeln. e vorhaben. 'ü'bersegeln. Küste, ƒ. Ostindien, n., sing.

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16. Among the sloths, which are peculiar to South America, is the slowest, that which is called Ai from the soundd that it utters.e

17. Its progressive motion is so slow, that it has tired outb the patience of all natural historians who wished to know it exactly.

18. It would, witha an uninterrupted motion, make at the utmost fifty stepsd in twenty-four hours, or one milee in five months.

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19. But it interrupts a this motion so often, and rests b so long, that it perhaps moves on only one mile in six or seven years.

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20. Its food consists in leaves, and it is certainly d obliged to climb up the trees, or rather to crawl up, but what a struggle does this require!

21. It wants a two days in order to ascend the tree, which it does not abandon, until the last leaf is nipped off d.

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22. It then hungers for several days before it resolves to tumble down; and but after some weeks it is forced by all-powerful hunger to form a new resolutionj ofk moving on.

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a Faulthier, n. (pl. — e.) beigen. clangsam.

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fore inseparable. b sich ausruhen.

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sich fortbewegen.

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20. a Nahrung. b bestehen. c Blatt, n. (pl. Blåtter). e hinaufklettern, with Acc. fvielmehr. & hinaufkriechen. iUeberwindung. kosten.

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brauchen. b hinaufsteigen. verlassen. dabnagen. 22. a hungern. b mehrere. cehe. d sich entschließen. e herabfallen. fnur. zwingen. hallmächtig. i fassen. Entschluß, m.

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23. What aa contrast between this motion which requires two minutes in order to advanced the width of one finger, and the swiftness of the swallows which fliesh seventy-five feet in one second1, consequently twelve miles in one hour, and with all this but rarely1 takes any rest.m

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XI. ON VERBS OF MOOD.

1. Saffron is said to have come to Europe by the Crusades.c

2. We need only be good in reality b, then the appearance will not become difficult for us.

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3. We ought to combine prudence with virtue, but not hided the complete absence of virtue under the appearance of prudence.

4. We ought not only to do no evil, but also to omita indifferent things, if they can, under circumstances, cast d upon us the suspicion of being mischievous.f

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1. a Safran, m. bfollen, means to do what another (a person or a law) wills, maintains, or reports; therefore, I am said ich soll, the Latin dicor. Kreuzzug, m., and mark, compounded Nouns take the gender of the second or last component part, and 3ug is of the masc. gender, because all Substantives derived from Verbs without termination are masculine.

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2. a dürfen means to be allowed, not to be prevented by a moral law, then to need, to dare. wirklich. Schein (in reference to gender, cf. Note 1 c).

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3. a follen, subj. imperf. verbinden. Klugheit. dverbergen. e völlig. f Mangel, m.

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unterlassen. say, something indifferent gleichgültig. durch.

a werfen. e Verdacht, m. say, of the evil Schlimme, n.

5. A thing, which is really good, we must not omit even c on account of suspicion.

6. One can often lose one's good name without having done anything wrong: then conscienced must quiete us. 7. The world cannot examine the hearts, and is often obliged to judge after outward appearance.

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8. We are not only permitted, but it is our duty to speak against oppression and injustice.d

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9. We must not timidly keep silent where justice d and order require that we speak.

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10. Every bird musta build its particular nest.

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may a a dieb, and then no one remains to provide for our abandoned family.

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12. Among the lastinga infirmities of the human body, deafness might possibly be the worst. d

13. So unjust you men are, when you do not like a amusements any longer, because you have enjoyed them,

5. asay, something really good. bdürfen. cauch).

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man. b say, without to have done. Bose. Gewissen, and mark, all Substantives which originally were infinitives are neuter. e beruhigen.

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7. a prüfen. b müssen. urtheilen. dåußer.

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dürfen. b to be the duty of one sollen. © Unterdrückung. Ungerechtigkeit.

9. amüssen, which implies a natural force and moral obligation. bfurchtsam. schweigen. a Recht, n. d

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means to have a will, to require, to pretend.

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11. a tönnen, which means to be able, and implies also a logical possibility. bsterben. übrig bleiben. no one to provide for, translate by no provideress Versorgerin. everlassen.

12. a dauernd. Gebrechen. Körper, m. Taubheit. e mögen or dürfen. fleicht. & schlimm.

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13. a to like is mögen. Vergnügen, which has no plural, since all Substantives originally infinitives have no plural form; this is made here from a derivative, Vergnügung. not any longer nicht mehr. genießen.

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