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

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13. So unjust you men are, when you do not like a amusements any longer, because you have enjoyed d them, you also do not wish that a being besides & yourselves should delight in them.

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14. Naturala courage too often made him forget d what he owed to the king; and thus, the death of a common soldier terminated this royal life.i

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15. He whispers a of letters which he pretends to have received.

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16. The house in Mayencea, in which the inventors b of the art of printing are said to have first practised that art, stands to this day under the name of Färberhof behind the conventi of barefooted friars of formerk times.

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

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14. a Natürlich. Muth, m. classen, and mark, when the Part. Past of a Verb of mood stands after the infinitive, it is changed into an infinitive too. avergessen. schuldig. Gemeiner (originally an Adj.). senden. hföniglich. Leben.

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17. You ought not to have trusted him so rashly. 18. If you were to see my provisions you would admire them.

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19. I should not let myself be governed by a boy. 20. There (es) was at that time great want everywhere," except in Lieged, where the cautious bishop had before ordered corn to be purchased, and to be stored up. 21. When a Tacitus mentions b the Danube and the Rhined as boundaries of the Roman Empire', the Germans themselves may not have been quite satisfied with it, and a secreti wish more than truth may have led Tacitus to this saying.1

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17. a mark, this ought to have trusted is in Latin debuisses confidere, and should have been in English had ought to trust, but ought is a defective Verb, and therefore it is circumscribed; in German sollen is not defective, and it can be used in the Subjunctive of the Pluperf. btrauen. Dat. a blindlings.

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18. I am to, is ich soll; and mark, you can say in English, were you to see, and the same construction can be used in German. b Bor= rath. bewundern.

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19. a lassen, and observe, the Subjunctive Imperfect is used instead of the Conditional in Verbs of Mood especially, and also in other Verbs. bregieren, and remember, after Verbs of commanding and forbidding follows always the Infinitive Active.

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20. a Mangel, m. Þüberall. ©außer. Lüttich. vorsichtig. Bischof. * vorher. "lassen (cf. Note 14c). Getreide, n. Jeinkaufen. aufschütten. 21. Wenn. berwähnen. Donau, f. aRhein, m. e Grenze, f. Reich, n. selbst. hmögen, Imperf. Subj. inner. Wunsch. be= wegen, which has bewogen in the Participle when it implies a moral inducement, but bewegt when meaning a motion or emotion. 1Ausspruch.

22. a Fuchs, m. bmögen, and mark, instead of the Conditional Perfect in Verbs of Mood particularly, and also in other Verbs, is used the Subjunctive Pluperfect (cf. also, Note 14°). egern. d hinein schleichen. Hühnerhof, m.

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25. The learned professors said to Columbus : "Your trick with the egg is not difficult; we could have done it ourselves."

26. The lamb had come so near the wolf, that he could easily have throttled it.

27. Indeed, one must never have felt the charm of a human voice, - one must never have perceived that language remains a deadh letter without the variety k of its sweet1 modulationsm, one must never have observed how infinitely deeper the uttered word penetrates into the soul, in order to think that the loss of hearing is a lesser" evil▾ than the loss of sight."

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23. a verschlingen. bda. keiner, teine, keins is used when standing like a Substantive. zurückkehren. Höhle, and mark, all Substantives of measure are feminine, when made from Adjectives by adding c. 24. a Lamm, n. bschelten. trübe. dehe. e ankommen. fdaher. 25. a a gelehrt. b Profeffor, which, like all Substantives of foreign origin terminating in an unaccented or, has en in plural. to after say is ju, when the words said are literally mentioned. d Kunststück, n. e bi, n. fwe could have done, is used here for we should have been able to do, translate the latter, and refer to Notes 22b, and 14c. 26. anahe. Dat. translate, he would have been able to throttle. d erwürgen.

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27. Fürwahr. bman. empfinden. aZauber, m. e Stimme, f. fbemerken. Rede, and mark, Substantives are feminine when derived from a Verb by the terminations e, d, or t. todt. Buchstabe, m. johne, Acc. Mannigfaltigkeit. 1fanft. Modulation, f. " beobachten. • unendlich. Ptief. 9 aussprechen. dringen. Verlust, m. Gehör, n. "gering. Uebel, and observe, the Adjective used as Substantive, without termination, is neuter.

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28. If plants which serve as food to cattle are to be propagated' everywhere in plenty, of their own accordi, without the assistance of man, they must also, in consequence of this their nature', frequently spread" in cornfields."

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23. The lion must have devoured the animals, since b none of them returned from his den.

24. The lamb said to the scolding wolf: “The water was troubled before I arrived, and therefore I cannot have done it."

25. The learned professors said to Columbus : "Your trick with the egge is not difficult; we could have done it ourselves.”

26. The lamb had come so near the wolf, that he could easily have throttled it.

27. Indeed, one must never have felt the charm of a human voicee, one must never have perceived that

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