Graduated exercises for translation into German, extr. from Engl. authors arranged, with an appendix, by F.O. FroemblingFriedrich Otto Froembling 1866 |
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... took my stand in the centre of it , and saw , with a great deal of pleasure , the whole human species march- ing one after another , and throwing down their se- veral loads , which immediately grew up into a prodi- gious mountain , that ...
... took my stand in the centre of it , and saw , with a great deal of pleasure , the whole human species march- ing one after another , and throwing down their se- veral loads , which immediately grew up into a prodi- gious mountain , that ...
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... took notice in particular of a very profligate fellow , who , I did not question , came loaden with his crimes ; but , upon searching into his bundle , I found that , instead of throwing his guilt from him , he had only laid down his ...
... took notice in particular of a very profligate fellow , who , I did not question , came loaden with his crimes ; but , upon searching into his bundle , I found that , instead of throwing his guilt from him , he had only laid down his ...
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... took up the gout instead , but made such wry faces that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain . It was pleasant enough to see the several exchanges that were made , for sickness against poverty , hunger against ...
... took up the gout instead , but made such wry faces that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain . It was pleasant enough to see the several exchanges that were made , for sickness against poverty , hunger against ...
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... took up from time to time , then laid them down , looked at them , and shook his head . He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it , held it some time in his hand , then laid it upon the bit of his ass's ...
... took up from time to time , then laid them down , looked at them , and shook his head . He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it , held it some time in his hand , then laid it upon the bit of his ass's ...
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... took the first step . Several companions of my own age accompanied me in the out- set , and we travelled pleasantly together a good part of the way . We had no sooner entered upon our path , than we were accosted by three diminutive ...
... took the first step . Several companions of my own age accompanied me in the out- set , and we travelled pleasantly together a good part of the way . We had no sooner entered upon our path , than we were accosted by three diminutive ...
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Page 14 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...
Page 91 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Page 14 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 198 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 71 - I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Page 79 - Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him.
Page 46 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or...
Page 199 - ... and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh: this is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent: but base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable: You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies;...
Page 199 - take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also ? " and so of friends in a proportion.
Page 47 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down. — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh, — I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears, — I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn.