He is a nian who tries to take advantage of everything

8. I never think of it without remembering your story {don't use

' sans ').

9. The old man spent every night in looking at the stars with

télescopes thirty feet long.

10. It froze so hard last winter that we nearly died of cold.

11. Although I know nobody hère, I do not feel at ail lonely.

12. One of his neighbours had abused him for dissecting his cat.

13. The butcher's wife, who happened to be there, joined in the

onset.

14. Is it not enough for me to hâve put up with ail those insults?

15. A learned man is at the very most esteemed only by those who

hâve applied themselves to the same kind of science as himself.

16. I should like the whole of mankind to be buried in oblivion.