A grammar of the French language: Exercises1863 |
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ACAD ACCIDENCE adjectives afraid apples asleep battuere believe better book brother Celtic children conj country declaim English EXERCISE facere father fear first French friend general give given good great Greek habere hand happy have heard Hispaniola homme hope horses house hundred king know ladies lady last learned leave little look love low Lat low Latin make master means mente money morning mother never night noun Observe old Germ old German oneself order pages people pleasure polstar poor post class prép present pressus PRETERITE pretty pron pronouns punished pupils quis READ AND TRANSLATE Rouss s. m. h s. m. pl SAME MANNER satisfied seen SHAKSPEARE soldiers sometimes soon sound speak subj SUBJUNCTIVE.-1 SYNTAX take tendere thing think thou thought time totus town twin sisters uncle used wait want wicked wish word work world year young
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Page 171 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married, and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Page 125 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bug-bears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Page 205 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Page 93 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 133 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
Page 185 - The labour of rising from the ground," said the artist, " will be great, as we see it in the heavier domestic fowls, but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished, till we shall arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall : no care will then be necessary but to move forwards, which the gentlest impulse will effect.
Page 195 - See how the man swims, who was so angry two days since; his passions are becalmed with the storm, his accounts cast up, his cares at an end, his voyage done, and his gains are the strange events of death, which whether they be good or evil, the men, that are alive, seldom trouble themselves concerning the interest of the dead.
Page 185 - If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Page 193 - He was a young man of so virtuous a habit of mind, that no temptation or provocation could corrupt him ; so great a lover of justice and integrity, that no example, necessity, or even the barbarity of this war, could make him swerve from the most precise rules of it ; and of that rare piety and devotion, that the court, or camp, could not shew a more faultless...
Page 125 - But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.