Practice in German, adapted for self-instruction, containing the first three chapters of 'Undine' with a tr. and copious notes, by Falck Lebahn

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Seite 144 - I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest : for it is thou, Lord, only, that makest me dwell in safety.
Seite 106 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it, when one can not repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay; Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well.
Seite 198 - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Seite 135 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Seite 5 - To those who would attain a practical use of the language, with a moderate expenditure of time and labour, this work will be a welcome help.
Seite 10 - Language is generally thought to be a very difficult one to learn My intention in the present work is to render the attainment of the German Language easy to the English student, by simplifying the Rules of Grammar, by presenting to him the similarities of the two languages, and by showing him that he can learn a great deal of German with very little trouble,- -not, however, to lay a learn-without-labour system before him.
Seite 80 - Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name.
Seite 69 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Seite 175 - Toward evening Undine was hanging upon the knight's arm with lowly tenderness, while she drew him gently out before the door, where the setting sun shone richly over the fresh grass, and upon the high, slender boles of the trees. Her emotion was visible: the dew of sadness and love swam in her eyes, while a tender and fearful secret seemed to hover upon her lips, but was only made known by hardly breathed sighs.
Seite 199 - ... continued looking at us with a smile. " Next morning, we had no reason to fear, that she had received any other harm, than her wetting, and I now asked her about her parents, and how she could have come to us. But the account she gave, was both confused and incredible. She must surely have been born far from here, not only because I have been unable, for these fifteen years, to learn...

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