Part 47

Upon this, S. 44, N. 4.

Supply here the conj. +daß+. Read carefully § 36 of the App., and construe accordingly. Use the Pluperfect Subj. in both clauses, and observe that the verb +gehen+ always requires the auxiliary +sein+. See S. 29, N. 3.

+noch einmal+.

away towards home = home.

Section 64.

TENDER, TRUSTY, AND TRUE.

IV.

“There,” I said, when I had seen that, “I know what David never did do: he (S. 5, N. 2) never struck a boy that was no match for him; he never was a coward like that big boy; for he is a coward to strike a small boy so; and those others are not the boys (S. 16, N. 10) they ought to be, to stand by and see it done.” I saw such a thing in a picture once, which was called the Wolf and the Lamb. A great, cruel boy meets a small, delicate lad who has lost his father, and stands over him with his fist doubled, just as I saw that boy stand under my study window. I think if any boy in this church were to see that picture, he would instantly say: “What a shame to use a boy so who is not your match!”

that — him, +der ihm nicht gewachsen war+.

the pron. ‘he’ is used demonstratively in this clause.

Say ‘because he can strike a small boy so’.

those = the.

To render ‘=ought=’, use the Imperf. of ‘+=sollen=+’.

Say ‘because they stand by (+dabei´stehen+) and look at it (+es mit an´sehen+)’.

such a thing, +etwas Aehnliches+. The adv. ‘once’ must stand immediately after the verb.

+Bube+, m.

lad, +Bursche+, m. The clause ‘who — father’ may be briefly rendered by the adj. ‘fatherless’, which place before ‘lad’.

+mit geballter Faust.+

When the verb ‘=to think=’ is used in the meaning of ‘=to be of opinion=’, it must be rendered by ‘+=glauben=+’, and when it is used in the meaning of ‘=to be engaged in thinking=’, by ‘+=denken=+’.

The conj. ‘=if=’ must always be rendered by ‘+=wenn=+’.

any boy = any (+irgend+) one of you.

Render the words ‘were to see’ by the Imperf. Subj. of +sehen+.

+aus´rufen.+

to use = to abuse, +miß´handeln+.

Section 65.

TENDER, TRUSTY, AND TRUE.

Once I read in the Life of Dr. Channing, who was one of the best men that ever (+je+) lived (a great deal better than David, because he lived in a better time), what he once did, when he was a boy and saw a thing like that. Little Channing was one of the kindest and most tender-hearted boys I ever heard of. I will tell you a story to show you how kind he was, and tender, and true. One day he found in a bush a nest full of young birds just out of the shell. Children, did you ever see a nest full of birds just out of the shell?—little tiny, downy things, with hardly more feathers than an oyster? The birds which William Channing found, were just of that kind; and when he touched them with his fingers, and felt how soft and warm they were, they all began to gape, very much as you do when I preach a very long sermon.

+Lebensbeschreibung+, f. The Genitive relation must be expressed by the Gen. of the def. art. See S. 10, N. 2. =Proper names are not inflected when they are preceded by an article and a common name.=—Dr. +~William Ellery Channing~, berühmter amerikanischer Geistlicher und Schriftsteller, wurde im Jahre 1780 zu Newport auf Rhode-Island geboren und starb im Jahre 1842 zu Bennington in Vermont. Seine zahlreichen ausgezeichneten Schriften haben seinen Namen auch in europäischen Kreisen berühmt gemacht. Coleridge, dessen Bekanntschaft er machte, als er im Jahre 1822 England besuchte, war so sehr von ihm eingenommen, daß er ausrief+: ‘He has the love of wisdom, and the wisdom of love!’