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Send thy arrows forth,

Strike, strike these tyrants and avenge my tears.

(Cumberland.)

We will deliver you the cause,

Why, I that did love Caesar, when I struck him,

Proceeded thus.

(Shakesp. Caesar.)

1. BEAUTIFUL, 2. FINE, 3. HANDSOME, 4. PRETTY.

1. Schön; 2. fein, schön, hübsch; 3. schön; 4. hübsch.

Unter diesen Beiwörtern, welche das dem Auge Gefällige bezeichnen, besigt das erste die stärkste Bedeutung, und zeigt den Besit dessen im vollsten Sinne an, was die andern nur theilweise haben; ein hoher Grad von Anmuth in den Gesichtszügen und dem Körperbau wird mit beautiful bezeich net: ebenso die Reize der Natur, der Schöpfung, gelungene Werke des Geistes oder der Einbildung. Fine gebührt angenehmen, regelmäßigen Gesichtszügen, und einem verhältnißmåßigen Körperbau; auf die Schönheiten der Natur und die Schöpfungen des Geistes angewendet, bezeichnet es kühne und ausdrucksvolle Züge; auf Dinge überhaupt, das in die Augen fallende. Handsome, von Personen und Dingen, bedeutet, daß alle Annehmlichkeiten_ver= einigt find. Pretty, von Personen, ist Ebenmaß und Zartheit in den Zügen; von Dingen, Hübschheit.

A woman is beautiful who in feature and complexion possesses a grand assemblage of graces.

He turned, and a maiden of dazzling beauty was by his side.
(Bulwer's Arasm.)

The beautiful is displayed in the works of creation. Beautiful sentiments have much in them to interest the affections as well as the un

derstanding; they make a vivid impression. A beautiful poem. The celestial bodies are beautiful objects. A beautiful picture of Gerard.

How calm, how beautiful comes on

The stilly hour, when storms are gone.

(Moor's Lalla Rookh.)

A little woman can never be fine. The sky presents a fine (beautiful) aspect. A rural scene is fine when it presents the bolder and more impressive features of nature, consisting of rocks and mountains. Fine sentiments mark an elevated mind and a loftiness of conception. Byron's Sardanapalus is a fine tragedy. The display of an army drawn up in battle array, affords a fine spectacle. Whose is this fine drawing? The handsome is a general assemblage of what is agreeable. He has bought handsome furniture. Handsome is that handsome does. A woman is pretty, if with symetry of feature be united delicacy. A pretty comedy. I shall get a pretty cap.

Our journey hither was through the most beautiful part of the finest country in the world, and every spot of it, on some account or other, famous for these three thousand years past. (Gray's Works.)

I have been on horseback most of the day, all days since my arrival, and have taken it as I did Constantinople. But Rome is the older sister, and the finer. (Byron's Lett.)

The town (Dresden) is the neatest I have seen in Germany; most of the houses are new built; the elector's palace is very handsome. The

Saxon ladies resemble the Austrian no more than the Chinese do those of London they are very genteely dressed after the English and French modes, and have generally pretty faces. (Montague's Lett.)

No writer since the days of Shakspeare has created so many fine, healthy, life-like, and original characters; other novelists may boast of a couple, or four, or half-a-dozen; but eight or ten in one fiction is common to Scott. Bulwer has rigorous and varied powers; in all that he has touched on he has shown great mastery; his sense of the noble, the beautiful, or the ludicrous, is strong.

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(Cunningham, Hist. of Brit. Liter.)

And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace

Of finer form, or lovelier face.

A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace,

(Lady of the Lake.)

1. To BECOME, 2. GROW.

1. Werden; 2. werden (wachsen, zunehmen).

Diese Zeitwörter bedeuten, in einen Zustand gerathen, aber nur das legte mit dem Umstande eines stufenweisen Fortschreitens, während das erste, ohne nåhern Umstand, nur anzeigt, daß man das geworden, was man noch nicht gewesen.

A man may become a good man from a vicious one, in consequence of a sudden action on his mind; but he grows in wisdom and virtue by means of an increase in knowledge and experience. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old. (Pope.)

The constitution of Darvell, which must from his appearance have been in early life more than usually robust, had been for some time gradually giving way, without the intervention of any apparent disease: he had neither cough nor hectic, yet he became daily more enfeebled: his habits were temperate, and he neither declined nor complained of fatigue, yet he was evidently wasting away, he became more and more silent and sleepless, and at length so seriously altered, that my alarm grew proportionate to what I conceived to be his danger.

(Byron's Fragment.)

And would you have me become a peasant's confidant?
(Castle of Otranto.)

Too happy days! when, if he touch'd a flower
Or gem of thine, 'twas sacred from that hour;
When thou didst study him, till every tone
And gesture and dear look became thy own.

(Moor's Lalla Rookh.)

When Henry VIII. ascended the throne, there still existed a spirit of freedom, which on more than one occasion defeated the arbitrary measures of the court, though directed by an able minister, and supported by the authority of the sovereign: but in the lapse of a few years that spirit had fled, and before the death of Henry, the king of England had grown into a despot, the people had shrunk into a nation of slaves. (Lingard's Hist. of Engl.)

That man must daily wiser grow,
Whose search is bent himself to know.

The fouler grew his goblin hue,
The darker grew the cave.

(Gay's Fables.)

(Lady of the Lake.)

1. To BEG, 2. DESIRE.

1. Erbitten, bitten; 2. wünschen, verlangen, begehren, fordern, bitten. Das erste ist die Handlung eines untergebenen, oder eines in einem untergeordneten Stande, das zweite die eines Höhern.

We beg a thing as a favour; we desire it as a right. Children beg their parents to grant them an indulgence; parents desire their children to attend to their business.

She'll hang upon his lips, and beg him tell
The story of my passion o'er again,

(Southern.)

I desired you once before, said Manfred angrily, not to name that woman; from this hour she must be a stranger to you, as she must be to me. (Castle of Otranto.)

2. To BEGIN, 2. COMMENCE, 3. ENTER

UPON.

1. 2. 3. Anfangen.

Die ersten beiden Zeitwörter sind so sehr sinnverwandt, daß es schwer ist, den kleinen Unterschied zwischen ihnen zu entdecken. To begin betrift die Ordnung der Zeit, es steht im Gegensag von enden, to end, und ist mehr in der umgangssprache gebräuchlich). To commence bezieht sich auf die Anstrengungen bei dem Anfange einer Sache, es wird vollenden, to complete, entgegengesest, und bezeichnet ferner, einen Versuch machen, währen to enter upon etwas thun bedeutet, das noch nicht versucht worden.

Whoever begins a dispute is termed the agressor; a person begins a thing with a view of ending it; a speaker begins by apologizing; happiness frequently ends where prosperity begins; all things have their beginning; a word begins with a particular letter, or a line begins with a particular word; to begin the work; to begin one's play; to begin to write.

No one should commence a dispute unless he can calculate the consequences; a person commences a thing with a view of completing it; he commences his speech with an apology; whoever commences any undertaking, without estimating his own power, must not expect to succeed; a person commences his career; to commence the operation; to commence the pursuit; to commence the letter; we commence an undertaking; speculating people are very ready to commence schemes,

We enter upon an employment; considerate people are always averse to entering upon any office, until they feel themselves fully adequate to discharge its duties.

When beginning to act your part, what can be of greater moment than to regulate your plan of conduct with the most serious attention.

(Blair.)

I was yet young in life, which I had begun early; but my intimacy with him was of a recent date. (Byron's Fragm.)

By the destination of his Creator, and the necessities of his nature, man commences at once an active, not merely a contemplative being.

(Blair.)

It was a warm, clear, and sunny day, on which I commenced the Voyage of the lake. (Bulwer's Student.)

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In the seven stages of man's life, there are three epochs more distinctly marked than the rest, viz. the departure of boyhood departure of youth the commencement of old age. I consider the

several dates of these epochs, in ordinary constitutions, commence at fifteen, thirty, and fifty years of age. (Bulwer's Stud.)

If any man has a mind to enter upon such a voluntary abstinence, it might not be improper to give him the caution of Pythagoras in particular. (Addison.)

1. BEHAVIOUR, 2. CONDUCT, 3. CARRIAGE, 4. DEPORTMENT, 5. DEMEANOUR. 1. Betragen, Aufführung, Haltung, Anstand, Benehmen; 2. Betragen, Aufführung; 3. Betragen, Benehmen, Anstand, Haltung; 4. Aufführung, Wandel; 5. Betragen, Benehmen, Verhalten.

1. Behaviour betrift körperliche oder geistige Handlungen, alle solche, die der Kenntniß Underer ausgesezt sind. Es wird auf das geringere sittliche Verhalten in Gesellschaft angewendet.

By our behaviour we may render ourselves agreeable. The behaviour of young people in society is of particular importance. The circumstance of life is not that which gives us place, but our behaviour in that circumstance is what should be our solid distinction. (Steele.) He behaved likewise in every other respect so well at divine service, that it recommended him to the notice of Mr. Adams, the curate. (Fielding's J. Andrews.)

2. Conduct, geistige Handlungen, sittliches Betragen, Sittlichkeit von der größten Wichtigkeit, die uns Achtung oder Verachtung verschafft.

I speak of his conduct in the management of his private concerns, in the direction of his family, or in his different relations with his fellowcreatures. The youth who does not learn betimes a seemly behaviour in company, will scarcely know how to conduct himself judiciously, on any future occasion. Wisdom is no less necessary in religious and moral (Blair.)

than in civil conduct.

I do not approve of our conduct to Bonaparte when he was at our mercy, nor of our conduct to France in 1815. (Bulwer's France.) Potius, thou may'st rely upon my conduct: Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. (Addison's Cato.)

3. Carriage, betrift bloß die Art der körperlichen Haltung, fie bezeichnet die Geburt und Erziehung.

Carriage should neither be haughty nor servile; to be graceful, it ought to have a due mixture of dignity and condescension. An awkward carriage stamps a man as vulgar; a graceful carriage evinces refinement and culture.

However, the solemnity of my carriage won so much on my master, who was a most sagacious person, that I was his chief favourite, and my example on all occasions was recommended to the other boy's which filled them with envy and me with pleasure; but though they envied me, they all paid me the involuntary respect, which is the curse attending this passion to bear towards its object. (Fielding's Journey.)

4. Deportment, umfaßt sowohl die Handlung, als die Haltung des Körpers bei der Ausführung der Handlung.

The deportment of a man should be suited to his station. A humble deportment is becoming in inferiors; a stately and forbidding deportment is very unbecoming in superiors. Whoever is really impressed with the solemnity and importance of public worship, will evince his impressions by a gravity of deportment. Females should guard against a light de

portment, as highly perjudicial to their reputation. A modest deportment is greatly valued.

I knew a man in London of the gentlest manners, and of the most winning deportment, whose eye was ever brightened with the smile of good humour, and whose voice was mellowed with the tones of complacency and this man was a blacksmith.

(Mackenzie's Man of the world.)

5. Demeanour, bezieht sich nur auf den sittlichen Karakter oder die Richtung der Handlung, und ist das Bild des Gemüths oder des wirklichen Karakters; das allgemeine Betragen in seinen Beziehungen zu den Verhältnissen und der Lage des Individuums.

The suitable demeanour of a judge on the bench, or of a clergyman in the pulpit, or when performing his clerical functions, adds much to the dignity and solemnity of the office itself. We are often led to judge favourably of an individual from the first glance, whose demeanour on close examination does not leave such favourable impressions.

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The prior, who is not easily pleased, seemed to have suspicions that the seriousness of my demeanour was not entirely orthodox: I overheard him saying to Roxas, shall I show him the Angel's feather?« (Beckford's Sketches of Spain.) Zayda was tall and finely-formed, with a lofty demeanour and a penetrating eye. (Irving's Alhambra.) I particularly noticed one young woman of humble dress, but interesting demeanour. (W. Irving's Sk. Book.)

O when meet now

Such pairs, in love and mutual honour join'd?
With goddess-like demeanour forth she went,
Not unattended, for on her, as queen,
A pomp of winning graces waited still,
And from about her shot darts of desire
Into all eyes, to wish her still in sight.

(Milton's Par. Lost.)

1. BELIEF, 2. FAITH, 3. CREED.

1. 2. 3. Glaube.

Belief ist blos eine Handlung des Verstandes, es überschreitet nicht die Billigung des Gemüths in Hinsicht auf irgend einen Sah, und ist allen Religionen gemein: der Glaube, daß die göttlichen Lehren und Aussprüche wahr und zuverlässig sind; Faith, ein thätiges Prinzip des Gemůihs, an welchem das Herz Cheil hat, ein lebhaftes Gefühl, das zu Werkthätigkeit antreibt, es wird vorzugsweise von der christlichen Religion gebraucht. Belief verhält sich zu faith wie Ursache zur Wirkung. Faith bezeichnet entweder das Prinzip des Glaubens, oder dasjenige, was geglaubt wird, es bezieht sich immer auf das Prinzip des Gemüths, und wird auch in allgemeinem und unbestimmtem Sinne genommen. Creed, betrifft blos den Gegenstand des Glaubens, faith, und wird besonders und bestimmt genommen: eine vorgeschriebene Form in jeder Religion.

We believe that there is a God, who is the creator and preserver of all his creatures; we believe that Jesus Christ died for the sins of men; theorists substitute belief for faith; enthusiasts mistake passion for faith: true faith must be grounded on a right belief, and accompanied by right practice; to be of the same faith; or to adopt the same creed; the holy martyrs died for the faith as it is in Christ Jesus; every established form of religion will have its peculiar creed: the Church of England has

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