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2. After this prayer of the priestess', the two youths fell asleep in the temple, and never arose again. 3. The imperiala dignity had formerly descended d only to the sons of princes.

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4. The Danube, which rises in Germany, breaks loosed in the south-easterne mountains, and runs aways from the Germans through distant boundaries1, and through foreign nations.

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5. She has, in spite of all resistance, prevailed with her opinion, because she was penetrated by its truth. 6. The events which have, from the remotest times, exercised a great influenced on the fate of the human f race, were ever the migrations of tribes.i

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7. The time of adventure, of romanticb enterprises, is gone by, and never will return.®

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2. a Gebet, n. b Priesterin, f. Jüngling.
3. a kaiserlich. b Würde, f.

einschlafen. ©aufstehen.

d ehemals. sich forterben, which is reparable, and the ge in the Part. Past must be placed between the two compounding parts. auf.

4. a Donau, f.

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entspringen. Deutschland. durchbrechen, 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. esüdöstlich. Gebirg, n.

b Widerstand, m. separable, and as

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5. atro with Gen. durchdringen, lit. urged through; it is therefore a Verb neuter implying a change of condition is conjugated with sein. 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. Ereigniß, n. (pl.—e). von jeher. causüben.

• Schicksal, n. menschlich. & Geschlecht, n. 4 Wanderung.

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7. a Abenteuer, n., take the plural with the Def. Art.

Unternehmung. dvorbei sein, and mark, the compounded particle vorbet follows the rule of the simple. zurückkehren.

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8. Everybody likes to deal with punctual people. 9. Even glorious a truth is abused by many.

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

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

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12. Oak treesa 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

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8. *say, deals gladly umgehen, lit. to walk about. pünktlich.

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9. herrlich. mißbrauchen, and mark, verbs active compounded with mig, 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. Völker). Begriff, m. (pl.—e). dge= wöhnlich. umschreiben, which must be inseparable.

11. aumwölfen, therefore inseparable, and bumziehen, likewise, cf. Note 54. Nebel, m.

12. a Eiche, f.

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werden. cumspa'nnen is to span, but u ́mspannen in to put other horses to; the first is inseparable, the latter separable. 13. Umschiffung. bunternehmen, inseparable. berühmt. dum= segeln 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 fe'geln.

14. a durchschiffen, separable as neuter, inseparable as active, meaning, to visit the ocean everywhere. b Ocean, m.

Richtung.

nach.

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surpassed all his predecessors in courage and perseverance: he perished during his last voyage.k

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15. The length of America obliges far round when they intend to pass coast of America to the East Indies.h

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seamen to sail d

from the eastern

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

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

18. It would, with an uninterrupted motion, take (say make) at the utmost fifty steps in twenty-four hours, or a mile in five months.

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

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

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übertreffen. Vorgänger. an. Ausdauer, f. umfommen, separable, because it means lit. to come round, i. e. to the end, from which the motion began. Jauf. *Reise, f.

15. a Länge, f. bzwingen. weit. dum'segeln. vorhaben. fü'ber= segeln. Küste, f. Ostindien, n., sing.

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16. Faulthier, n. (pl.—e). beigen. langsam. nach. eLaut, m. fvon sich geben.

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17. a fortschreitend. bermüden. Geduld, f. a Naturforscher. genau. 18. bei. bununterbrochen. höchstens. Schritt, m. Meile, f. 19. unterbrechen, which has a figurative meaning, and is therefore inseparable. fich ausruhen. sich fortbewegen.

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20. a Nahrung.

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bestehen. Blatt, n. (pl. Blätter). e hinaufklettern, with Acc. vielmehr. 8 hinaufkriechen. Ueberwindung. kosten.

dzwar.

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welch ein.

21. It takes two days to ascend the tree, which it does not abandon, until the last leaf is nipped off.

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22. It then fasts for several days before it resolves to tumble down; and only after some weeks is it forced by all-powerful hunger to form a new resolution to move on.

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23. What a contrast b between this motion which requires two minutes in order to advanced a finger's breadth, and the swiftness of the swallows which fliesh seventy-five feet in a second, consequently twelve miles an hour, and with all thisk but rarely1 takes any

rest. m

XI. ON VERBS OF MOOD.

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

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

21. a brauchen. b hinaufsteigen. everlassen. dabnagen.

22. a hungern.

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mehrere. cehe. asich entschließen. herabfallen. ifassen. Entschluß, m.

ferst. zwingen. hallmächtig.

23. a welcher.

f Schnelligkeit.

* dabei. 1selten.

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Abstand, m.
Schwalbe, f.

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erfordern. a fortrücken. e Breite, f. h durchfliegen. iSecunde, f. jalso. mto take rest ruhen.

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1. a Safran, m. sollen, means to do what another (a person or a law) wills, maintains, or reports; therefore, I am said ich foll, the Latin dicor. ©Kreuzzug, m., and mark, compounded Nouns take the gender of the second or last component part, and Zug 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).

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3. We ought to combine prudence with virtue, but not hide 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 by force of circumstances, cast upon us the suspicion of evil.

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

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

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

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9. We must not timidly keep silent where justice and order require that we should speak. 10. Every bird must build its particular nest.

3. a sollen, subj. imperf.

b verbinden.

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d Klugheit. a verbergen.

e völlig. Mangel, m.

4. a unterlassen. bsay, something indifferent gleichgültig. ©durch. a werfen. Verdacht, m. say, of the evil Schlimme, n.

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5. asay, something really good. dürfen. auch.

6. a man. bsay, without to have done. Böse. Gewissen, and mark, all Substantives which originally were infinitives are neuler. e beruhigen.

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8. a dürfen. to be the duty of one sollen. Unterdrückung. aUngerechtigkeit.

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9. amüssen, which implies a natural force and moral obligation. bfurchtsam. schweigen. Recht, n. Ordnung. fwollen, which means to have a will, to require,to pretend.

10. a cf. Note 9 a. bbauen. cigenthümlich.