Graduated exercises for translation into German, extr. from Engl. authors arranged, with an appendix, by F.O. Froembling

Friedrich Otto Froembling

1866

Contents

• The monkey and the two cats DODSLEY: 1
• An account of the destruction of the Alexandrian library HARRIS: 2
• Severus GIBBON: 3
• The story of Inkle and Yariko STEELE: 4
• The whistle FRANKLIN: 6
• The character of Julius Cæsar MiddLETON: 7
• The mountain of miseries ADDISON: 9
• Phæton: 10
• The dead ass STERNE: 12
• The schoolboys pilgrimage JANE Taylor: 14
• The saddlers pet rat BUCKLAND: 16
• London DEFOE: 18
• Execution of Mary Queen of Scots HOME: 21
• Roderick Randoms progress at school Smollett: 24
• Character of Charles I MACAULAY: 26
• The vulture and his children JOHNSON: 28
• Catharine I Empress of Russia GOLDSMITH: 30
• Eulogium on Marie Antoinette Queen of France BURKE: 32
• Louis XI W Scott: 33
• Salathiels account of the fall of Jerusalem CROLY: 36
• Character of Richard I LINGARD: 38
• The white ship Dickens: 39
• Prussia ROBERTSON: 42
• the poetry of Wordsworth Homer Wilson: 44
• The battle of Cressy WHITE: 46
• SKS: 50
• The Gorilla All the year round: 51
• James Harrod of Harrods: 54
• burg Forest and prairie life: 57
• Pelham at Eton and Cambridge BULWER: 59
• The Browns fTom Browns School: 61
• The ant DARWIN: 62
• Liberty and slavery STERNE: 64
• Jamaica TROLLOPE: 66
• Envy JOHNSON: 68
• Lassoing the buffalo MCANN: 70
• Character of William of Orange BURNET: 72
• Turning the grindstone FRANKLIN: 75
• Dante and Milton MACAULAY: 76
• Advantages of discussion MILL: 77
• On Wages WHATELY: 78
• The character of Cato MIDDLETON: 82
• Origin of the white the red and the black men W IRVING: 83
• With brains Sir BROWN: 85
• Adventure of Jones with a Highwayman FIELDING: 86
• Lord Chatham on a proposal to employ Indians in the war CHATHAM: 89
• The battle of the Nile WARBURTON: 91
• LICET: 94
• The death of Queen Elizabeth HUME: 95
• Shakspeare and Ben Jonson DRYDEN: 97
• Industry and application BLAIR: 99
• SISENE: 100
• The Character of Alexander Pope CHESTERFIELD: 102
• The Hebrew Race B DISRAELI: 103
• 1 ani i COSRETT: 106
• View of Mexico from the summit of Ahualco PRESCOTT: 108
• Go thou and do likewise JEREMY TAYLOR: 109
• The committal of the seven bishops to the Tower MACAULAY: 110
• Fortune not to be trusted BOLINGBROKE: 112
• The works of creation ADDISON: 113
• The relative value of gold and silver MURCHISON: 115
• The great earthquake of Lisbon: 116
• ܡܶܬ݂ ܛܶܐ ܕ݁ܙܶܝܕܬܕ ܢܬܐܬܥ ܝ La: 117
• days: 118
• Wat Tyler DICKENS: 119
• Death of two lovers by lightning Pops: 123
• Life of Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden FULLER: 125
• Character of Rousseau Burke: 127
• Discovery of the holy lance at Antioch GIBBON: 129
• Discovery of a colossal sculpture at Nimroud LAYARD: 131
• Effects of the death of Nelson SOUTHEY: 133
• Houses and furniture of the nobles in the middle ages HALLAM: 134
• Miltons personal appearance MILTON: 137
• The Czar Peter in England in 1698 BURNET: 138
• From a Moorish legend W IRVING: 140
• From a Moorish legend: 141
• Counsel to young ladies MRS JAMESON: 142
• Impressions of the city of Madrid BORROW: 144
• The Lord helpeth man and beast COLERIDGE: 146
• The story of a disabled soldier GOLDSMITH: 148
• An American Cymon and Iphi genia COMBE: 153
• A Lady cured of political am bition MARIA EDGEWORTH: 154
• Great ideas CHANNING: 157
• The patriot King BOLINGBROKE: 158
• Poor Diggs 1 Tom Browns School days: 161
• PART SECOND: 162
• Heroism of a miner CARLYLE: 163
• Ephemeræ FRANKLIN: 165
• Love for the dead W IRVING: 167
• Description of the diversions of the court at Lilliput Swift: 169
• Accordance between the songs of birds and the different aspects of the day JENNER: 171
• Adventure with a lion LIVINGSTONE: 173
• The resignation of the Emperor Charles V ROBERTSON: 174
• Phæton: 178
• Lord Chesterfield to his son CHESTERFIELD: 182
• A scientific: 184
• Nelson and Hardy: 197
• On human grandeur: 207
• Personal traits of George II: 214
• Generał Wolfe to his army: 220
• On the value of works of fiction THACKERAY: 226
• The comparison of watches MARIA EDGEWORTH: 233
• The fire of London: 234
• Vance and Lionel at the country: 241
• Character of Falstaff HAZLITT: 247
• The young philosopher AIKIN: 250
• Machiavelli and Montesquieu MACAULAY: 252
• On tedious storytellers STEELE: 254
• Results of civilization ADAM SMITH: 257
• Refinement favourable to hap piness and virtue HUME: 259
• Necessity of precision in using language HOBBES: 262
• Arminius CREASY: 264
• Adaptation of the covering of birds to their condition PALEY: 265
• Woman in the Homeric age GLADSTONE: 269
• Battle of Dunbar CLARENDON: 271
• Labour and recreation Friends in Council: 273
• Education of Martin Scriblerus PoPE: 274
• Of suspicion Bacon: 276
• Addison THACKERAY: 277
• The French revolutionary as sassins ALISON: 280
• The quack philosopher dis comfited DE QUINCEY: 281
• Behind time FREEMAN HUNT: 284
• Pioneers of science and literature LOCKE: 286
• Country hospitality Swift: 287
• The Rivals SHERIDAN: 289
• Poor relations LAMB: 292
• General view of the advantages and evils of the feudal system HALLAM: 294
• Praise and blame RUSKIN: 297
• Sir Roger de Coverley at church Addison: 299
• Visit to a model prison CARLYLE: 300
• 17 An Irish postilion MARIA EDGEWORTH: 304
• Prejudices LOCKE: 306
• Right of resistance to govern ment MACKINTOSH: 308
• The state of man before the fall South: 312
• Fathers and elder sons among the great THACKERAY: 314
• Superior morality of Christian BERKELEY: 315
• The slave ship RUSKIN: 321
• JENNER: 28
• A fable: 41
• Uncle Toby and his miniature: 43

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Page 14 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...

Page 91 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.

Page 14 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

Page 198 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.

Page 71 - I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.

Page 79 - Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him.

Page 46 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or...

Page 199 - ... and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh: this is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent: but base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable: You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies;...

Page 199 - take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also ? " and so of friends in a proportion.

Page 47 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down. — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh, — I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears, — I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Graduated exercises for translation into German, extr. from Engl. authors arranged, with an appendix, by F.O. Froembling
• Editor: Friedrich Otto Froembling
• Published: 1866
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Aug 10, 2006