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2HI") Lekt. 54. Utt, af æ. Verb o. adj. med prep, of o. from.
our native shores in quest of remote and unknown regions.
31. You might judge of the importance of the present war,
if you could but see all the preparations. 32. King Alfred
the Great was desirous of discovering an art, by which he
could measure out time. 33. The sun-dial was in use among
the earliest (äldsta) nations. 34. Herodotus (herod’otus) says
that the Greeks borrowed it from the Babylonians. 35. Joseph
was stripped of his clothes, and sold to the Ishmaelite
merchants who passed by. 36. The priest was divested of his
long robe. 37. The emperor demanded of Luther to revoke
his writs. 38. 1 had found leisure to look into my follies,
and to repent of them. 39. I was in doubt of your courage.
40. The arrow was shot out from that window. 41. He blew
the fly off his hand. 42. Excuse me, I can never approve of
such a piece* of injustice. 43. Gulliver clearly convinced the
crew of the merchantman of his veracity, by showing the
oxen and sheep, which he had taken with him. 44. They
accused Swift of having alluded to some political and social
institutions of his country in his »Voyage to Lilliput.» 45.
That man is sloiv of speech and quick of hearing. 46.
Discoverers often give names to places descriptive of the
anniversary on which they were discovered. 47. The poet will,
in the days that are to come, record and sing the praises of
our adventurous sailors as heroes who are as worthy of
renown as any Greek of Homer’s time. 48. There is a great
difference between the case of a man who is barely acquitted
of a crime in a court of justice, and of him who is acquitted
in his own heart, and in the opinion of the people. 49. The
surface of the land has been cleared of forests, marshes and
swamps have been drained, and towns have been built; but
the rivers flow to the sea, and the mountains rear their heads
to the sky, precisely as they did two or three thousand years
ago. 50. No man or woman ever once in all his life inquired
the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. 51. In judging
of others, let us always think the best, and employ the spirit
of charity and candour; but in judging ourselves, we ought
to be exact and severe. 52. Before daybreak we were off
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* A piece of injustice, advice, etc., betyder belt enkelt: en orättvisa,,
ett råd, o. s. v.
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