Part 68

+folgendermaßen.+

proceeded = continued.

displays = shows.

most perfect = highest.

Use the gen. of the def. art.

Say ‘and is most exactly (+unübertrefflich genau+) and beautifully worked’.

From = On account of, +Wegen+.

extreme = extraordinary.

+Empfindlichkeit+, f.

it — injury = it is so easily exposed (+aus´setzen+) to (S. 3, N. 2) injury.

a sort of = a certain.

Use the attributive constr., S. 7, N. 3.

Say ‘which is placed (+angebracht+) so that it falls down at (+bei+) the approach of the slightest danger in a moment’.

The — appearance, +Das Äußere+.

Render ‘there is’ in this instance by ‘+besteht+ (there exists)’, which must be placed at the end of the passage, on account of the preceding subordinative conj. +obgleich+.

The internal contrivance, +Der Mechanismus+.

power = efficacy, +Wirksamkeit+, f.

it = the same (to agree with +Mechanismus+).

Section 90.

A CURIOUS INSTRUMENT.

III.

“By a slight and momentary movement, which the owner can easily effect, he can ascertain with considerable accuracy the size, colour, shape, weight (S. 10, N. 9), and value of any article whatever. A person possessed of one is thus saved from the necessity of asking a thousand questions and trying a variety of troublesome experiments, which would otherwise be necessary; and such a slow and laborious process would, after all, not succeed half so well as a single application of this admirable instrument.”

GEORGE. “If it is such a very useful thing (S. 27, N. 8), =I wonder= that everybody, that can at all afford it, does not have one.”

To avoid repetition render the verb ‘can’ here by +imstande sein+.

+bestimmen+, which use in the form of a Supine and place at the end of the whole clause.

of — whatever, +irgend eines Gegenstandes+.

A — one = The possessor.

is — questions = needs therefore (+also+) not (to) ask a thousand questions. To ask a question, +eine Frage stellen+.