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Indefinite Pronouns: tout, même (§ 2389, 10).

EXERCISE 54.

1. We are all subject to death. 2. One must thank God for everything. 3. She was [and: they were] quite sad and [quite] astonished. 4. All Europe knows and admires the dramas of that poet. 5. The whole village was reduced to ashes; everything has been consumed by the fire; all the towns of our province have sent some money to those unhappy (people). 6. Every cause has its effects. 7. He answered all the questions. 8. We are a small part of a great whole. 9. The general put to the sword all the inhabitants of that town, even the women and children. 10. Men, animals, and even flowers are sensible to [the] kindnesses. II. Old-men and even children are not sure of the morrow. 12. They [f] were quite rapt and [quite] intimidated.. 13. We admire all the wonders of creation, that is to say, all that has been created by God. 14. Do not confound the two French expressions: the whole world and every one. 15. Are all your wines pure? 16. Yes, they are quite pure. 17. You have the same advantages as he. 18. Those oranges are good; give us some of the same. 19. We aspire to the same honours as you. 20. Those women are no longer themselves; they are the very Furies. Even-the-most-sincere2 men1 disguise sometimes the truth. 22. If you do not go there yourself, it is no longer the same thing. 22. They have all three left, and not one has come back. 23. Those people ruin

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1. Some one [has] wanted to pretend that Cicero was only an ordinary man, and that nothing in his life authorized (us) to [è] count him among those Romans who were the honour and glory of their country. But I ask [it] of any [tout] impartial man [pl.]! Will any one* contradict me when I say that he [has] saved Rome, and that in a time when [ou] one scarcely found a true Roman, he was (a) virtuous (man), and a friend to [of] his country? Whoever sacrificed hist country to his own advantage found an-adversary2 inhim. Whatever were the dangers he had to [a] encounter, he feared none [of them]. 3. Some, it is true, accuse him of indecision, others pretend that he was by turns courageous and timid. However that may be, he always defended with courage, and (this) before Cæsar himself, the country and its [the] ancient government. 4. Can any one reproach (him) with cowardice, [him] who wrote a panegyric upon [de] Cato without regarding the danger in which every-friend-of-that-Republican3 was1 then placed [se trouver]?

*See Gr. p. 147. N. b.

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4 X 12

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(d) Deux fois 37 font 74. font cent.

20 font cent.

Trois fois 30 font 90. Dix fois dix Dix fois 100 font mille. 24 fois 4 font 96. Cinq fois Neuf fois 20 font 180. Sept fois 10 font 70. Six

fois 30 font 180. Quinze fois 10 font 150, etc.

EXERCISE 57.

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I. I shall be in Paris in a fortnight. 2. The French Academy is composed of 40 members. 3. I [have] won 100 francs, and my friend 200 sovereigns. hive there are generally 50,000 cells. voyage round the world was made in 1580. leap year has 366 days, a [= the] common year has 365. 7. The royal library in [= of] Dresden contains about 530,000 volumes. 8. We have made a collection which has produced a sum of 890 francs; and, without doubt, a second collection will produce a sum at least as great. 9. I have walked 20 miles to-day. 10. The Russian empire has at least 70,931,000 inhabitants. II. That great country has more than 99,260 square miles. 12. At the beginning of the fourteenth century the number of [the] streets in [= of] Paris was only 300, as one sees from the treatise in verse of a poet called Guillot, who lived about 1300, and who died at 85 years (of age). 13. I know two manuscripts of that treatise bearing the numbers 198 and 200; they each contain 80 sheets. 14. The author enumerates 36 streets in the city, 80 in the districts of the University, and 184 in the town properly so called.

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EXERCISE 58.

1. What date is it [ have we] to-day? 2. It is [= we have] the 30th of May, the 3rd of July, the 8th of November, the 9th of March, the 7th of June. 3. Peter the First has been surnamed the Great. 4. The 1st book of the Odyssey contains 440 lines, the 22nd 501, and the 24th 548. 5. What place have [= are] you in your class? 6. I am the eighth in [= of] the 2nd class, and my brother is the eleventh in [= of] the 1st class. 7. He left for Paris on the 10th of August, and I think that he [will have] arrived there on the 15th of this month. 8. Charles V., king of Spain, was also master of the provinces of Austria, as grandson of the Emperor Maximilian I. 9. The 4th part of 12 is 3, and the 20th part of 100 is 5. 10. In 1800 Napoleon was victor in the battle of Marengo; on the 2nd of December, 1805, he beat the Austrians and the Russians in the battle of Austerlitz; he then beat the Prussians in 1806. 10. Sixtus V. was elected pope in 1585 A.D. II. The late kingdom of the two Sicilies was situated between the 37th and 43rd degree of north latitude and between the 12th and 18th degree of east longitude. 12. Eleven years after the death of Charles I., king of England, Charles II., his son, succeeded in returning to England and in reascending [on] the throne of his ancestors. 13. They are now bringing out a complete edition of Byron in two volumes; the first has already appeared and the second is in the press.

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