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boundless it is not the same with princes

the remaindcr he had many troops in his pay unworthy it is enough that you should be

happy to hoard up the best book that we hâve read

the reins to know some one only by name

a change without any one having thought

of it a malcontent in so high a degree of power the murmur to ascend the throne

a usurper did he not go straight to him ?

to oppress to look upon some one as a

an asylum, barbarian

refuge he trenibled lest I should know

to destroy it

to pay great attention to sg.

a disease it seemed as if it were true

the merchandise to sell by retail inconvénient to remind some one of sg.

the founder

ferocious

the thunder

perfidious

to soften , unman

the fall

to get rich to shorten effeminate a goldsmith the wool the silk

a prayer

powerless

the passion, fit

of anger the bottom,

depth a Mahommedan a geometrician the justness a grove the dial

he does it better than you think within their reach I do not deny that he did it sooner than you imagine even though they should corne do you believe that he will

succeed ?

to take sg. into one's head has he not enough to live upon ?

let us suppose that it is so to do without sg.

their nuniber diminished in proportion the same may be said of him nothing will make me give it up to know how to play on the flûte did you ever see anything like it ?

to yell like a madman if you take my advice . .

there was nothing that was not

quite natural not to hâve the slightest smatter-

ing of sg.

fîfty feet long by thirty wide I should hâve liked you to see it

Words and Phrases

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70 the property an inch

to spout, rcbound

71 to travesty a coin rather

72 the basis frivolous to exhaust

73 the basin a fleet

to land

74 to prétend, feign zealous

to grant

75 a farnier insolvent to distrain

76 a traitor

the share (com. ) a lackey

77 opposite (prep) a stain

the numbness

78 to deprive the ministry the duration

79 a comrade to extol

a livery

80 an urn the rarity to crack

81 a post, stake a column

an heir

82 credulous

to disapprove the reasoning

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