A new method of learning to read, write, and speak the Spanish language ...Trübner & Company and D. Nutt, 1863 |
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Acordar Acrecentar adjective amigo Andar años bien bread brother buen bueno caballo Cardenio carta casa comprar conjugated cual decir Despues dicho dinero Dios Ditto DON QUIJOTE drink ellos English escribir ese hombre estaba estado Estoy EXERCISES father feminine gender Gerund gusta haber habia hablar hacer haya hecho hermano hombre horse hubiera imperative mood imperfect tense indicative mood infinitive mood lend Lesson LESSON.-Leccion letters libros mañana mano mejor menester ménos menudo mood mujer noun o'clock offend one's padre Past participle Pedir person singular pesos plural poco preposition present preterit pronoun puedo quiere razon salir sell señor servant sister sombrero Spanish Spanish language speak subjunctive subjunctive mood tell tenga tengo tenido tense termination thing thou tiempo translated verb vestido vino wine wish to buy wish to go words write
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Page 548 - No hagas muchas pragmáticas; y si las hicieres, procura que sean buenas, y, sobre todo, que se guarden y cumplan; que las pragmáticas que no se guardan lo mismo es que si no lo fuesen; antes dan...
Page 390 - Cornelia dexterously (adroitement) turned the conversation to another subject to wait the return of her sons, who were gone to the public schools. "When they returned, and entered their mother's apartment, she said to the Campanian lady, pointing to them (montrer): "These are my jewels, and the only ornaments (la parure) I prize (jpriser).
Page 548 - Para ganar la voluntad del pueblo que gobiernas, entre otras has de hacer dos cosas: la una, ser bien criado con todos, aunque esto ya otra vez te lo he dicho; y la otra, procurar la abundancia de los mantenimientos; que no hay cosa que más fatigue el corazón de los pobres que la hambre y la carestía.
Page 387 - It was customary with Frederick the Great, whenever a new soldier appeared in his guards, to ask him three questions ; viz. : " How old are you ? How long have you been in my service ? Are you satisfied with your pay and treatment...
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Page 255 - You will have loved. They will have loved. I shall have come. Thou wilt have come. He will have come. She will have come. We shall have come.
Page 387 - His figure caused him to be immediately accepted ; but he was totally ignorant of the German dialect; and his captain giving him notice that the king would question him in that tongue the first time he should see him...
Page 361 - He who wishes to teach an art, must know it thoroughly, (á fondo ;) he must give none but clear and well-digested notions (reglas) of it ; he must instil (infundir) them one by one into the minds of his pupils, and above all, he must not overburden (sobrecargar) their memory with useless or unimportant rules. My dear friend, lend me a dollar. — Here are two instead of one. — How much obliged I am to you ! — I am always glad when I see you, and I find my happiness in yours.
Page 495 - ... men. to be consummate in a faculty, to pervert one's self with the vicious, to contaminate one's self with heresies. to temporize with any one. to contend with any one. to dispute upon any thing, to hold to one's contract, duty, to answer one's question, to apply (something) to a subject, to counterpoise (one thing...
Page 441 - The grave accent ( v ) upon a vowel in the following terminations, points out the syllable on which the stress of the voice is laid, but over which the mark of it must not be set. The acute accent ( ' ) marks the syllable on which the stress of the voice lays, and over which the accent is to be written. When there is no mark of an accent in the termination, the syllable that precedes it is long. SIMPLE TENSES. First Conjugation.