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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... man . His orations were admired for two qualities , which are seldom found together , strength and elegance : Cicero ranks him among the • greatest orators that Rome ever bred ; and Quinctilian THE CHARACTER OF JULIUS CESAR . 7.
... man . His orations were admired for two qualities , which are seldom found together , strength and elegance : Cicero ranks him among the • greatest orators that Rome ever bred ; and Quinctilian THE CHARACTER OF JULIUS CESAR . 7.
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... admiration of the expiring princess . Thus died , in the forty - fifth year of her age , and the nineteenth of her captivity in England , Mary Queen of Scots , a princess of great accomplishments both of body and mind , natural as well ...
... admiration of the expiring princess . Thus died , in the forty - fifth year of her age , and the nineteenth of her captivity in England , Mary Queen of Scots , a princess of great accomplishments both of body and mind , natural as well ...
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... admired than his con- duct . Great errors were often committed by him ; but his heroical courage set things right , as it inflamed those who were about him . He was too lavish of money on some occasions , both in his buildings and to ...
... admired than his con- duct . Great errors were often committed by him ; but his heroical courage set things right , as it inflamed those who were about him . He was too lavish of money on some occasions , both in his buildings and to ...
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... that he was glad to have found an occasion of dying in his proper character . On the whole , his life was rather admirable than amiable ; fit to be 82 . THE CHARACTER OF CATO . 1 PROGATA The character of Cato MIDDLETON.
... that he was glad to have found an occasion of dying in his proper character . On the whole , his life was rather admirable than amiable ; fit to be 82 . THE CHARACTER OF CATO . 1 PROGATA The character of Cato MIDDLETON.
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Friedrich Otto Froembling. life was rather admirable than amiable ; fit to be praised rather than imitated . Middleton . ORIGIN OF THE WHITE , THE RED , AND THE BLACK MEN . A Seminole Tradition . When the Floridas were erected into a ...
Friedrich Otto Froembling. life was rather admirable than amiable ; fit to be praised rather than imitated . Middleton . ORIGIN OF THE WHITE , THE RED , AND THE BLACK MEN . A Seminole Tradition . When the Floridas were erected into a ...
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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.