Ahn's Fourth German Book: Being the Fourth Division of Ahn's Rudiments of the German Language

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E. Steiger, 1876 - 180 páginas

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Página 138 - IT wAS a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done. And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found. That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who...
Página 166 - ... the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Página 126 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Página 132 - The swallow is one of my favourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale, for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of the year, the harbinger of the best season ; he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature ; winter is unknown to him ; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa.
Página 124 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Página 148 - When the nominatives are of different persons, the verb agrees with the first person in preference to the second, and with the second in preference to the third...
Página 128 - Lawrence is one of the largest rivers in the world ; and yet the whole of its waters is discharged in this place by a fall of a hundred and fifty feet perpendicular. It is not easy to bring the imagination to correspond to the greatness of the scene. A river extremely deep and rapid...
Página 168 - His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man.
Página 166 - Liberty, gentlemen, is a solemn thing — a welcome, a joyous, a glorious thing, if you please; but it is a solemn thing. A free people must be a thoughtful people. The subjects of a despot may be reckless and gay if they can. A free people must be serious; for it has to do the greatest thing that ever was done in the world — to govern itself.
Página 161 - I became lost in wonder. I looked at myself, and saw two long arms, provided with hands and fingers, and with joints that might be opened and shut at pleasure. I could, when I pleased, take up...

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