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accent adjective adverbs agir agissent aimer allé aperçu attentif aurez avait Avez-vous avoir bien C'est cent compound tenses CONDITIONAL MOOD conjugated consonant d'être deux dress ourselves écrire elision enfant English été aimé êtes être eusses eussiez eût Exercise fait faut feminine France French French language frère friends FUTURE FUTURE IMPERFECT going grave accent habillé heures homme IDIOMATIC TENSES imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERFECT INDEFINITE INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD interrogatively J'ai J'aurais J'avais jour letter livre loved m'en maison Masc monsieur mute n'est n'eusse NOTE noun nous ouvert Paris parle participle pas eu PAST DEFINITE perceive perdus père person PLUPERFECT plural preposition PRESENT pron pronouns Qu'il or qu'elle que vous réjouis rendered s'en s'habille serais singular sœur sois sounded soyez speak SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantive syllable temps Thou hadst tout travail trois verb viens vingt Voici Voilà Voulez-vous vowel words
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Page 411 - ... than thine eye, or even thine imagination can extend itself. These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Page 76 - Ne faites pas à autrui ce que vous ne voudriez pas qu'on vous fît.
Page 400 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced — no matter what complexion, incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon...
Page 411 - The islands, said he, that lie so fresh and green before thee, and with which the whole face of the ocean appears spotted as far as thou canst see, are more in number than the sands on...
Page 410 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity, but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 409 - On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Page 409 - I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a genius ; and that several had been entertained with music who had passed by it, but never heard that the musician had before made himself visible. When he had raised my thoughts by those transporting airs...
Page 410 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. ' The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it : " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.
Page 411 - Is death to be feared that will convey thee to so happy an existence? -Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
Page 400 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.