Part 87

+Lehrerin+, to agree with ‘experience’, which is feminine in German.

Here place the words ‘in London — fever’; a man in a fever, +ein Fieberkranker+.

Construe the sentence ‘though — him’ after the following model: +Die mir gereichten geschmacklosen Getränke widern mich an.+

Here place the adv. ‘at last’; more and more importunate, +immer zudringlicher+.

+Um Gotteswillen.+

+wollen.+

to indulge a request, +einer Bitte willfahren+.

to undergo a copious perspiration, +in tüchtigen Schweiß geraten+ (str. v.).

+genesen+, str. v.

+Lehrsatz+.

Form a comp. n. of ‘day’ and ‘book’ according to S. 76, N. 22, C.

+kurieren+; in a, +vom+.

Say ‘When he had returned to France’.

on which = whereupon.

+schreiben+, after which place ‘following note’.

+so stirbt ein Franzose daran.+

Section 109.

ON SELF CULTURE.

(From an address delivered to an assemblage of young men at Edinburgh.)

I stand before you a self-educated man. My education was that which was supplied at the humble parish schools of Scotland; and it was only when I went to Edinburgh, a poor boy, that I devoted my evenings, after the labours of the day, to the cultivation of that intellect which the Almighty has given me. From seven or eight in the morning till nine or ten at night, was I at my business as a bookseller’s apprentice, and it was only during hours after these, stolen from sleep, that I could devote myself to study. I assure you that I did not read novels; my attention was devoted to physical science and other useful matters. During that period I taught myself French. I look back to that time with great pleasure, and am almost sorry I have not to go through the same troubles again. I reaped more pleasure when I had not a sixpence in my pocket, studying in a garret in Edinburgh, than I now find when sitting amidst all the elegancies and comforts of a parlour.—WILLIAM CHAMBERS.

+Über Selbstbildung.+

+Aus+; to deliver an address to an assemblage, +vor einer Versammlung eine Rede halten+; young men, +junge Leute+.

I — man. This sentence does not allow of a literal rendering; say ‘You see before you a man who has educated himself’ (+sich selbst bilden or aus´bilden+).

was — Scotland = was such as (it) (+eine solche, wie sie+) is given (+erteilen+) at (in) a simple Scottish village-school.

=The adverb ‘only’, when used in reference to time, is turned by ‘+erst+’, but in references to number by ‘+nur+’=; as—

This man has only (but) one coat.

+Dieser Mann hat ~nur~ einen Rock.+

It is only one o’clock.