Nye engelsk Chrestomathie tilligemed en kort Grammatik til Brug for de høere klasserG. Bonnier, 1817 - 336 Seiten |
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... say , you are providing pain for yourself , instead of plea- sure ; you give too much for your whistle . If I see one fond of fine clothes , fine furniture , fine equipages , all above his fortune , for which he contracts debts , and ...
... say , you are providing pain for yourself , instead of plea- sure ; you give too much for your whistle . If I see one fond of fine clothes , fine furniture , fine equipages , all above his fortune , for which he contracts debts , and ...
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... say that she has paid 30 much for a whistle ! In short , I conceived that great part of the miseries of mankind were brought upon them by the false estimate they had made of the value of things , and by their giving too much for their ...
... say that she has paid 30 much for a whistle ! In short , I conceived that great part of the miseries of mankind were brought upon them by the false estimate they had made of the value of things , and by their giving too much for their ...
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... says he ,,, the opinion of ,, learned philofophers of our race , who ,, lived and flourished long before my ,, time , that this vast world , the Mou ,, lin Joly , could not itself subsist ,, nore than eighteen hours ; and I think ...
... says he ,,, the opinion of ,, learned philofophers of our race , who ,, lived and flourished long before my ,, time , that this vast world , the Mou ,, lin Joly , could not itself subsist ,, nore than eighteen hours ; and I think ...
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... say , I ,, shall leave behind me ; and they tell ,, me I have lived long enough to nature ,, and to glory . But what will fame be ,, to an ephemera who no longer exists ? ,, and what will become of all lory in ,, the eighteenth hour ...
... say , I ,, shall leave behind me ; and they tell ,, me I have lived long enough to nature ,, and to glory . But what will fame be ,, to an ephemera who no longer exists ? ,, and what will become of all lory in ,, the eighteenth hour ...
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... say , that Providence has given sailors bad cooks to prevent them from eating too much ; or that , know- ing they would have bad cooks , he has given them a good appetite to prevent them from dying with hunger . How- ever , if you have ...
... say , that Providence has given sailors bad cooks to prevent them from eating too much ; or that , know- ing they would have bad cooks , he has given them a good appetite to prevent them from dying with hunger . How- ever , if you have ...
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acquaintance Adorno affured Arvinger attention begynde behaviour Berber bruges Columbus companion converfation countenance creatures Cringer Dativ door elftes elftet elsket endes paa faid fame fays feldom fell fellow felv fense ferve fhould fome foon Forandring fortune fpeak fubject fuch Genoa gentleman give good-breeding ground hand havde havt heard highwayman himſelf Hispaniola honour houſe Imperfectum Indur Infinitivus labour lived lodging looks loved lumbus manner master ment mest mind myſelf neceffary never night nogle obferve obliged ourſelves paffed Participium pedlar perfon Peru pleaſe Plural poffible portunities Præfens present racter reaſon reſpect Rhadamanthus ſay shew ship Singul Singularis skulde slaves ſmall ſom soon Spain ſpeak Strap tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion told trifling Uberto uſe whistle whole words young yourſelf
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Seite 3 - 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...
Seite 4 - ... gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. This however was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind ; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Seite 7 - We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation.
Seite 27 - It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labour would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.
Seite 139 - ... most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
Seite 3 - I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. 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...
Seite 104 - ... embrace our holy religion ; they will not adopt our manners ; our people will not pollute themselves by intermarrying with them. Must we maintain them as beggars in our streets...
Seite 126 - ... can behave with tranquillity and indifference, is truly great: whether peasant or courtier, he deserves admiration, and should be held up for our imitation and respect. While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities; while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of...
Seite 7 - I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. I .found, however, by some broken expressions that I heard now...
Seite 5 - I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.