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Lektion 60.
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1. Agesilaus, king of Sparta being asked what things he
thought most proper for bovs to learn, answered: »Those
which they ought to practise when they come to be men».
2. Near Naples are the buried cities of Pompeii and
Her-culaneum, which were destroyed by an eruption of Mount
Vesuvius. 3. Our aunt insisted upon the girl’s being called
Anna. 4. On entering the village J saw the flames bursting
out of my house. 5. »How do you wish, Porus, to be
treated?» asked Alexander. — »Like a king», replied the
former. — »But», continued Alexander, »do vou ask nothing
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more?» — »No, answered Porus, »all other things are
included in that single sentence.» 6. Mere negation, Lord
Bacon observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world.
7. »Have I judged badly?» said the king, »that you are so
astonished?» 8. She stood on tiptoe, to embrace him. 9. We
were alarmed at the crv of fire. 10. I have described them
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at some length: firstly, because their worth demanded it, and
secondly, because I mean to take them for a model. 11. Be
most upon your guard against those who pav the most court
to vou. 12. It is easier to plan schemes than to perform
them. 13. She had not her equal for (i) beauty in all
Germany. 14. It is quite contrary to that which I have heard.
15. It is a pleasing sight on a Sunday morning, when the
bell is sending its sober melody across the quiet fields, to
behold the peasantry in their best finery, with ruddy faces
and modest cheerfulness, thronging tranquilly along the green
lanes to church. 16. We are obliged to apply the terms,
which finite creatures have invented for the purpose of
expressing finite objects, to the attributes and operations of an
Infinite Being. 17. Are these the shadows of the things that
will be, or are they shadows of the things that may be, only?
18. It is a Temperance Hotel, and spirits are not to be had
for love or for money. 19. The turkeys, which have been
brought originally from America, are now seen in everv
poultry-yard, and are bred in great numbers all over Europe.
20. Methinks you should have more respect for a person
whom all the world allows to be so much your superior.
21. In his old age Diogenes was taken captive by pirates.
22. If we love one another, nothing, nothing, in truth, can
harm us. 23. The greatest stranger in this world was he
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