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Esperanto in Twenty Lessons: With Vocabulary (Classic Reprint) Caroline Stearns Griffin No preview available - 2017 |
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ADJECTIVE Ajlo Algerio amas amata ambitious America Ameriko aminta amis amos amota arbo article artiko become Biciklo bird blanka bona bread Bruto Brutus Butero butter Caesar cause Cigaro coffee Continued demono denotes dento diri Drogo Edinburgh emajlo ending ends expressed father Finlanda floro flowers following fork form FORMATION OF WORDS frato friend garden give given good granda ĝin havas hope hundo Hungary indicates Kapro kind knabo know language large LESSON letter little love loved Madrido make manner meaning means mian name nominative noun Nov-Jorko number objective objective case one's Pano pansy participle passive passive voice patro person Persujo place play Pluneniam practice present pronoun pronounced pronouns read reason respondo sanktigata Scrooge singular Sinjoro sleep speak tablo thou time translate into English TRANSLATION tree Tuesday used verb vian Vinagro VOCABULARY warm week white wind wish word WORDS DENOTING Write yellow
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Page 56 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Page 57 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me.
Page 68 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 57 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 56 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 56 - The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, — For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men, — Come I to speak In Caesar's funeral.
Page 22 - Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind ? Neither you nor I : But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Page 57 - Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
Page 56 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men ;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me ; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Page 69 - LITTLE Polly Flinders, Sat among the cinders, Warming her pretty little toes; Her mother came and caught her, And whipped her little daughter For spoiling her nice new clothes. BARBER, barber, shave a pig, How many hairs will make a wig? " Four-and-twenty, that's enough.