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54. He wished so to live, that his first grey hairb might not come from repentance of a bad action. 55. A really good servant must have open eyes, closed a lips, clean hands and nimble feet.i

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56. You will see me again in a few hours.

57. Have you so little curiosity a, asb not to ask me for my secret d?

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VI. ON THE DECLENSION OF ADJECTIVES IN THE

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE.

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1. The lofty a vault of God's house resounds with (von) the chaunt of the assembled congregation; and this chaunt accompanied by the tones of the organ', rises to the loftier vault of heaven.

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2. The transplanting of the sugar-cane from the Levant to the West became of far greater importance to the commerce of the world and to the fatesh of countries and nations than silk-weaving.

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Auge, n. (pl.—n). ©schlie= grein. hschnell. iFuß, m. when referring to intensity or

54. grau. Haar, n. durch, Acc. 55. wirklich. der Bediente. ©offen. Ben. say, a closed mouth Mund, m. 56. awenig and viel are not declined, quantity; but when referring to number, they are declinable. 57. a Neugier, f. say that you do not, etc. cum, Acc. heimniß, n.

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3. Gustavus Adolphus was the first general of his century, and the bravest soldier of his army.

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4. Acquainted with the tactics of the Greeks and Romans, he had inventede a better strategy, which served as model to the greatest generals of the following times.

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5. Deeper meaning a lies in the fabulous story of my childhood than in that truth which life is teaching.

6. The human mind requires a frequent contemplation of that which is to raise the spirit above the earth. 7. The philosophera must digb for the most excellent thoughts, just as the miner for the noblest metals.h 8. The most solid gold lies the deepest b; but who would penetrate so far, if he were to disdain the-at first small h-yieldings of the undertaken working of the minek?

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6. a bedürfen, which is construed with the Genitive or Accusative, as I do not want him ich bedarf seiner nicht, or ich bedarf ihn nicht. boft, and take the comparative. Anschauung, pl. this is dieser, and that jener, when two things or persons are contrasted, but else it is expressed by the longer forms of the Article, der, die, das, Gen. dessen, deren, dessen, Gen. pl. deren, when no relative follows, and derer when one follows; Dat. pl. denen. e which is was or das when referring to something general, and welches when relative to something definite. fis to express by foll. erheben.

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8. agediegen. bam tiefsten (an dem tiefst-en; this is the way to form the superlative of the Adverb, and an dem are contracted into am). gelangen. bis dahin. to be to, express by wollen. verschmähen. zuerst or anfänglich. gering. Ausbeute, f., only used in the singular. Junternehmen. Bergbau. k

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9. The lion, in the divinations of the prophets, was the symbol of the highest strength and generosity.e 10. In agriculture we recognise the foundation of all civil order, and the safest and richest source of prosperity.h

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11. Nature has granted to the tiniest German bird, the wren, a very cleard set of sounds, which it recites f during rain and wind, yeah in the severesti frost and snow-storm, all the time m merrily" turning around P on the highest points of houses and trees.

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12. From the beginning of the religious war in Germany till the peace of Munster, hardly any thing grand and remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe, in which the reformation3 had not the most prominent share.m

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VII. ON NUMBERS.

1. Clement the twelfth died in the eighty-eighth year of his age, and the tenth of his pontificate, on the sixth of February seventeen hundred and forty.

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2. The cardinals being uncertain whom to choose, Prosper Lambertini, the learneda and tolerante archbishop of Ancona, said with his accustomed good-humour: 3. "If you want a a saint, choose Gotti; if a politician, Aldrosandi; but if a good man, take me."

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5. Napoleon's chief army of about three hundred and fifty thousand mend was, in the autumn of 1813, concentrated in the neighbourhoods of Dresden..

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9. In the month of August the tempest of war broke forth on all points, and the two halves of Europe once more measured themselves in a fearful' decisive struggle.

10. The first glorious fighta Wallmoden encountered on the twenty-first of August against Davoust near Vellahn. 11. The emperora Conrad the second of Germany was solemnly received, on the twenty-second of March, one thousand and twenty-seven, by a pope John the nineteenth, and made a victorious entry into Rome.

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