An easy guide to the German language; or, A new course of instruction by which persons may learn German in a short timeDulau and Company, 1843 |
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adjective adverb Affirmatively augment become Charon cloth boards dative edition English and German Examples father first French friend Future Tense German German and English gescherzt geweſen given good govern great Haar habet Hadst thou håtte he not immediately Imperfect Tense INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood Interrogatively and Negatively jested king know konnte language läßt Leipzig length letter long made make Mentor Minos muß never nominative nominative case not jest obliged order Paris particles past participle personal pronouns place Pluto power precede prepositions Present Tense pronounced Pylos radical monosyllables regimen rule same sämmtliche Werke scherzen second ſein sentence Sesostris should shouldst thou ſie simple tenses sound student Stuttgart subject SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable take Telemach Telemachus tence thing thou hast thou shalt thou wouldst thut to-day Ulysses unsere usually placed verb vols vowel wåre wåren weiß werdet wilt wilt thou wind wirst wollen wollte would write
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Page 66 - ... sparkled in cups of gold that were wreathed with flowers ; and baskets were heaped with all the variety of fruit that is promised by spring and bestowed by autumn. In the mean time, four of the attendant nymphs began to sing. Their first theme was the battle of the gods and Titans ; then they celebrated the loves of Jupiter and Sem'ele ; the birth of Bac'chus, and his education under old Sile'nus ; the race of Atalanta, with Hippom'enes, whom she conquered with golden apples that were gathered...
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Page 68 - ... nothing to be hoped from longer stay. They returned to Cairo, repenting of their curiosity, censuring the negligence of the government, lamenting their own rashness, which had neglected to procure a guard, imagining many expedients by which the loss of Pekuah might have been prevented, and resolving to do something for her recovery, though none could ' find anything proper to be done. Nekayah retired to her chamber, where her women attempted to comfort her, by telling her that all had their troubles,...
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Page 68 - ... people which is governed by a wise king.' .... Mentor afterwards desired me to remark the happiness and abundance which was spread over all the country of Egypt, where twentytwo thousand cities might be counted. He admired the excellent police regulations of the cities ; , the justice administered in...
Page 90 - since thou art permitted to enter the realms of darkness, which to all the living, besides thyself, are interdicted ; make haste to push forward, whithersoever the Fates have called thee. Proceed, by this gloomy path, to the palace of Pluto, whom thou wilt find sitting upon his throne, and who will permit thee to enter those recesses of his dominion, the secrets of which I am not permitted to reveal...
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Page 80 - If the grief arising from our captivity had not rendered us insensible to all the pleasures, we should have been delighted with the view of this fertile country of Egypt, which resembled a delicious garden watered with an infinite number of canals. We could not cast our eyes on either bank, without perceiving opulent cities, country houses agreeably situated, lands...