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37. The children are being dressed by their nurse, and when they are dressed, they will take a walk.

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38. The books are being printed by our old acquaintance, and as soon as they are printed, you shall have a copy of each of them.

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39. We shall meet again, when the battle is lost and won.d

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40. She came cheerfully running towards me. 41. All the boys came at once bounding uproariously into the room.

XVI. ON VERBS, CONSTUED WITH A GENITIVE OR DATIVE CASE.

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1. Remember, O king, the promise you have given us. 2. War spares not even the infant in the cradle.d 3. Must a weak woman give up her native right? 4. Is it worth while a to talk so much about a trifle." 5. He has applied himselfa, during the last three years, to the study of ancient history.

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38. drucken. b Bekannt. sobald. Exemplar, n. ©jeder.

39. a fich treffen. Schlacht, f. verlieren. a gewinnen.

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40. a heiter. entgegenlaufen, with Dat., and mark, the Partic. Present, like running, after Verbs of motion, like came, is expressed in German by a Past Participle.

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1. gedenken, with Gen. Versprechen.

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2. aschonen, Gen. bauch nicht. Kindlein. Wiege, f.

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3. sich entäußern, Gen. bangeboren.

4. say, does it reward the trouble; to reward sich lohnen, Gen.;

trouble Mühe, f. Kleinigkeit.

5. a fich befleißen, Gen. b Studium.

6. I do not remember it any more."
7. How long did you serve your country?

8. Bless those who curse thee.

9. Thy lamenting avails thee not.

10. The dress fitted my sister well.

11. Do not trust those who flatterb thee.

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12. Do not defy the stronger, but ratherd yield e to superior power.

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13. He beckoned me to follow him into the next

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14. It behoves a the children to obey their parents. 15. Your promise satisfies a me perfectly.

16. It does not please me to see you constantly b in such company.

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17. The sword escaped his hand.

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18. His name had almost escaped my memory.

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19. Do not trust him, who promises b you too much.

6. a sich entsinnen, Gen. not any more nicht mehr.

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17. entfallen, Verbs derived by ent meaning away, are construed

with the Dative of the object.

18. a fast. for escape my memory, say escape me.

19. mißtrauen, Dat. versprechen, Dat.

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20. I have assisted him with all the

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21. This evil a must be remedied."

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22. Imitatea the great examples of those excellent men. 23. You have too long connived at his faults.

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24. We must try to prevent this danger."

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25. Such a dish a would not agree with the patient. 26. What did you advise him in this emergency b? 27. How many troubles and anxieties does not humility spared us!

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28. In the north of Siberia they can as little do without dogs, as in other countries without horses. 29. Sheep are without any arms ord faculty of defending themselves.

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30. What does not belong to your office, with that do not meddle.

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21. a Elend, n. babhelfen, Dat., and mark, Verbs with a Dative are in Passive so construed, that the Dative in German takes the place of the English Nominative, and the Verb itself stands in the third singular; e. g., they were assisted ihnen wurde geholfen.

22. a nacheifern, which, like all compounds with nach, is construed with Dative. b Beispiel, n. (pl.-e). vortrefflich.

23. nachsehen to connive at. Fehler, m.

24. a vorbeugen, Dat. b Gefahr, f.

25. Speise, f.

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bekommen, Dat., to agree with. Krant.

26. rathen, Dat.
27. Unruhe, f. b Marter, f.

Accusative of the person, and Genitive of the thing.

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wichtiger Fall.

Demuth, f.

überheben, with

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30. fein, with Gen. Amt, n. *say, there leave your wit lassen,

Vorwig, m.

15. He who makes a mistake in the choosing of good and evila and chooses what is momentarily pleasant, but productive of badi consequences, commits an error.1

16. During the severest frost, the Greenlanders d sit working in a room without a fire.

17. The trembling sound of the poplar or aspend has something peculiare, which also the Latin populus, the English poplar, and the German pappel, indicate.h

18. The grinding of grain to flourd, at first required much time and trouble, until at last handmills, and afterwards watermills and windmills were invented. 19. Committing an error is a mistaking of good and evil.

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20. Pretending to read a book, I heard several dreadful stories.c

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21. The necessity of clothing drove men to the invention of tanning, spinning, and weaving."

15. awer. b d fich vergreifen to make a mistake. ©wählen, treat good and evil as Substantives neuter. e what is pleasant treat as a Substantive neuter with the Def. Art. faugenblicklich. angenehm. Pres. Part. of bringen, and make it dependent upon the preceding Def. Article. schlimm. Folge, f. k begehen.

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16. Während.

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Grönländer. e arbeiten,
German used adverbially.

d Kälte, f. and mark, the Participle Present is also in

funheated ungeheizt.

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Espe, f. eigen, was. h andeuten.

17. zittern. Säuseln, n. Pappel, f. g lateinisch, treated as a Substantive neuter. 18. Zermalmen. ↳ Getreide, n. ein. a Mehl, n. Handmühle, f h b späterhin. Wassermühle, f.

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19. Verirrung committing an error. b Verkennen.

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anfangs. kosten.

5 Windmühle, f.

say, whilst I pretended; vorgehen to pretend, bschrecklich. Geschichte, f.

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21. Unentbehrlichkeit. Kleidung, treiben. Erfindung. gerben. spinnen. weben.

22. Blucher's intrepidity a in dangerous situations ©, his perseveranced in misfortune, and his courage, increasing with every difficulty, were founded on the consciousness of his bodily strength.*

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23. My landlady's daughters telling them that it was nobody but the gentleman, they went on without minding me.

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24. The civil wars having been terminated", lius Cæsar stood on the pinnacle of his fortune, surrounded with splendour and power.h

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25. Curiosity is the wish to learn what has justa happened, and, ife possible, what is just happening; it is the desire of fillings a mental1 vacuum.i

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26. Desire of knowledge is the wish to employ an active mind.e

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27. Cæsar was only intent on making his victory b lastinge, and on maintaining by wisdom and mildness, what he had gained by the fortune of war.g

22. a Unerschrockenheit. Þgefährlich. ©Lage, f. a Ausdauern. “wachsen, and treat the Participle as an Adjective. bei with the plural; say, with all. Schwierigkeit. sich gründen auf, with Acc. Bewußtsein, n. J körperlich. Kraft, f.

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23. a Wirthin.

fümmern um.

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24. ab Bürgerkrieg, m. e beenden. Gipfel, m.
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25. Neugier, f. Verlangen.

dürfniß, n. s ausfüllen.

26. Wißbegier, f.

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hinner.

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27. * bedacht sein auf. Þ Sieg, m. dauernd. abehaupten. Milde, f.

Glück. say, of arms; Waffe, f.

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