Nye engelsk Chrestomathie tilligemed en kort Grammatik til Brug for de høere klasserG. Bonnier, 1817 - 336 pages |
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... leaped leave forlader left left lend laaner ( andre ) lent lent let laber let lie ligger lay , laid let lain , layn lift løfter lift , lifted lift , lifted put fætter lost made Præfens , reap hefter rend fønderriver. XLIX Participium, ...
... leaped leave forlader left left lend laaner ( andre ) lent lent let laber let lie ligger lay , laid let lain , layn lift løfter lift , lifted lift , lifted put fætter lost made Præfens , reap hefter rend fønderriver. XLIX Participium, ...
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... lost made might meant met mist , missed mistook Participium . fit , lighted -- meant met mist , missed mistaken mixt mowed , mown past , passed mixt mowed past , passed prest prest put reached , raught put read reached , raught read ...
... lost made might meant met mist , missed mistook Participium . fit , lighted -- meant met mist , missed mistaken mixt mowed , mown past , passed mixt mowed past , passed prest prest put reached , raught put read reached , raught read ...
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... lost . A vain silly fellow builds a fine house , furnishes it richly , lives in it expenci vely and in a few years ruins himself ; but the masons , carpenters , smiths , and other honest tradesmen , have been by his employ assisted in ...
... lost . A vain silly fellow builds a fine house , furnishes it richly , lives in it expenci vely and in a few years ruins himself ; but the masons , carpenters , smiths , and other honest tradesmen , have been by his employ assisted in ...
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... when our present kind mistress , Mrs Petlove , Having lost a favourite tabby advertised very handsome price for another that 1 never should as nearly as poffible resemble her dead. obliged to wait trembling in the place ...
... when our present kind mistress , Mrs Petlove , Having lost a favourite tabby advertised very handsome price for another that 1 never should as nearly as poffible resemble her dead. obliged to wait trembling in the place ...
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... lost , there lived in the country of the Brachmans a man named Indur , who was distinguished , not only for that gentleness of disposition and huma- nity towards all living creatures , which are so much cultivated among those people ...
... lost , there lived in the country of the Brachmans a man named Indur , who was distinguished , not only for that gentleness of disposition and huma- nity towards all living creatures , which are so much cultivated among those people ...
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Page 3 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 4 - ... gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. This however was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind ; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Page 7 - We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation.
Page 27 - It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labour would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.
Page 139 - ... most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
Page 3 - I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as...
Page 104 - ... embrace our holy religion ; they will not adopt our manners ; our people will not pollute themselves by intermarrying with them. Must we maintain them as beggars in our streets...
Page 126 - ... can behave with tranquillity and indifference, is truly great: whether peasant or courtier, he deserves admiration, and should be held up for our imitation and respect. While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities; while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of...
Page 7 - I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. I .found, however, by some broken expressions that I heard now...
Page 5 - I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.