a 41. The town is irregularly built, but very picturesque; the houses are in the style of the old houses of Spain with windows down to the ground. f IV. ON THE DECLENSION OF NOUNS PROPER. 1. I always read with pleasure Virgil's a books on b agriculture, and the celebrated d ode of Horace on the beauty of country life.h e 2. Homer compares a the lovelyb voice of Nestor to the sound of a cicada. a с 3. We visited the grave of that excellent Günther, who was respected by friend and foe. b 4. She moved a the succession of her cousin, the Count Palatine, Charles Gustavus. 5. You were then going to appear in the character of Robber Moorb in Schiller's first tragedy. 41. unregelmäßig. f Fenster, n. shinunter. a C e bauen. malerisch. Haus, n. Bauart, f bis zu, Dat. Erdboden, m. 1. Nouns proper, without preceding article, have in Genitive an 8; the other cases are unchanged. bvon. 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. süber. Landleben, n. e Karl. Gustav. 5. a Rolle, f. 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 Friedrich, Herzog Karl, and some other. Trauerspiel, n. 6. Raumer has written the history of the Emperor a Frederic the second. b с b 7. That occurred in the reign of Duke Charles. 8. Hiero had the good sense to attach Simonides and Pindar to his court. a с 9. Name to me that poet who dares to compare himself to Homer and Virgil. 10. The victory on the white mountain placeda Ferdinand in possession of all his states. C 11. Nothing looked less like Elizabeth than to make a promise, when she was still uncertain, whether she could keep it. d 12. I found Julia quite the same, as I had seen her five years before at Mannheim. 13. The heirs of Margaret were her best friends, after she had lost her only child, Clara. a b 14. A considerable 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 Iroquois a blacken the face of him who gets the better of his neighbour by telling a falsehood. с d 7. asich ereignen. bunter. Regierung. say either Herzog Karls, or des Herzogs Karl (cf. Note 51). a Þwo. cob. d halten. b nachdem. widerstehen, which is inseparable, with Dat. b C 16. Jrolese, m. schwärzen. derjenige. besiegen. by telling a falsehood express by the Participle Present of fügen adverbially used. a b с 17. The Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent received from Burleigh the commission to assist at the execution of the death-warrant.f e a с 18. They appeared at Fotheringay on the seventh of February, announced their intention, and named the next day as the last in Mary's life. V. ON THE DECLENSION OF ADJECTIVES. a b 1. In those a countries which are most blessed by nature, men are generally lazy, ignorant and rude. 2. The ancients are by no means dead, as peopled are accustomed to say; only their languages are dead; the spirit, which breathesh in the latter, is eternallyj alive.k 3. The noble mind raises the crippled above € others who merely possess a beautiful person. b 17. a Graf (G.—en). Auftrag, m. beiwohnen, and mark, the Particle zu stands between the two compounds. at the express by the Dative. Vollziehung. Todesurtheil, n. e а 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. efaul. funwissend. sroh. 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. feinesweges. todt. awie man. e to be accustomed pflegen. Sprache, f. & Geist, m. g h wehen. isay, in these in diesen; observe, the first and the latter are often expressed by the Pronouns Demonstr. jener and dieser. 3 ewig. *lebendig. 3. a edel. b Seele, f. erheben. Krüppel, m. eüber, Acc. bloß. Körper, m. d b с f d h 4. Is it just or unjust to allow among brothers and sisters a distinction which destroys all mutual confidence 1? a с g 5. A simple and inarticulate sound excites already a dime idea of the being from which it issues. 6. Sight and hearing are the noblest senses. a a 7. Even among Negroes one finds beautiful faces. 8. The grateful" citizens erected monuments to the fallen warriors. e b с 9. For proper dogs of draught they choose in Siberiad those especially which have long legs, long earsh, a pointed muzzle3, a broad back, and a big head.m с e 4. a recht. bunrecht. dulden. dunter, Dat. Rangordnung, f. faufheben. galler, alle, alles, which has the same power before the Adjective as the Def. Article. wechselseitig. Vertrauen, n. 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. dunkel. Vorstellung. sof, when it means as much as about, is von, Dat. Wesen, n. aus, Dat. i kommen. h i с 6. adas Gesicht. das Gehör. Sinn, m. a eman. schön, and mark, if an Adjective is preceded neither by an Article nor Pronoun, it is declined like the Def. Article, as, guter Mann, gute Frau, gutes Kind, gutes Mannes, etc. Gesicht, n. (this word, has in Plural Gesichter, when meaning face, but Gesichte, when meaning vision). vorzüglich). fhoch, and mark, hoch and nach lose the c, when prolonged by a syllable beginning with e. Bein, n. (pl. -e, against the rule). Chr, n. (pl.—en). ¡spiß. ¡ Schnauze, f. ni Kreuz, n. dick. Kopf, m. 10. Between wisdom and virtue there is a great difference, a 11. The wise man is always prudent, but the prudent man is not always wise. 12. We often say, he is a sensible a man, of a person', who only transacts his affairs with much acuteness, and who sometimes does not feel any great scruple" about a bad trick.i h 13. This is a malicious & policy.b 14. Appearance goes far in the world; we, therefore, ought also to value good appearance. 15. He had the strange fashion of making a number of deep bows, when leaving the room. d f 16. The prison was seized by the fire; the flamesd raged in a terrible e criminals, who else way, and with them a swarm of were hidden, but now set at liberty in consequence of this occurrence." а 17. He gave them bad food to eat, and bad garments to cover themselves with.d с 12. a flug. Mensch, m. declined in cases like an Adjective, which it originally was, viz. männisch, from Mann. betreiben. aGeschäft, n. (pl.-e). Feinheit. say, makes to himself no great. e Klugheit. с Gewissen, n. say, does much. Welt, f. dsollten, e halten auf, Acc. с d e b Mode, f. Menge, f. tief. Verbeugung. say, when (wenn) he left. suy, of else hidden, but now at liberty set criminals. 'in Freiheit segen. 17. a Nahrung. Kleid, n. sich bedecken. damit. |