The second German book, by T.K. Arnold and J.W. Frädersdorff

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Page 74 - 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, put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation...
Page 118 - ... however free the gentlemen of White's may be from any imputation of this kind, it must be confessed, that suicide begins to prevail so generally, that it is the most gallant exploit by which our modern heroes choose to signalize themselves; and in this, indeed, they behave with uncommon prowess. From the days of Plato down to these, a suicide has always been compared to a soldier on guard deserting his post : but I should rather consider a set of these desperate men, who rush on certain death,...
Page 146 - With a demonstrative, eben ber/ eben biefer = berfelbe. 428 ®ïfl/ first, fd)on/ already, and nod)/ still, yet, if referred to the predicate, are employed in the same way as the corresponding adverbs in English: eg id) will...

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