man, which I did not altogether purchase without pains; for the restraint I laid on myself in abstaining from the several diversions adapted to my years cost me many a yearning. (Fielding's Journey.)

But these indecencies of which Luther was guilty, must not be imputed wholly to the violence of his temper. They ought to be charged in part on the manner of the age. Among a rude people; unacquainted with those maxims, which, by putting continual restraint on the passions of individuals, have polished society, and rendered it agreeable, disputes of every kind, were managed with heat, and strong emotions were uttered in their natural language, without reserve or delicacy.

(Robertson's hist. of Charles V.)

I speak not as desiring more;

But rather wishing a more strict restraint

Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of saint Clare.

(Shaksp. Meas. for Meas.)

1. CONTEMPTIBLE, 2. CONTEMPTUOUS. 1. Verächtlich, verachtenswerth; 2. verächtlich, verachtend.

Das erste Adjectiv wird auf Verachtung verdienende Dinge, das zweite auf Verachtung ausdrückende angewendet. Auf Personen oder ihre Handlun= gen können also beide Eigenschaftswörter bezogen werden, auf Dinge nur das erste.

A production is contemptible; a sneer or look is contemptuous. Silence, or negligent indifference, proceeds from anger mixed with scorn, that shows another to be thought by you too contemptible to be regarded. (Addison.)

I know nothing more contemptible in a writer than the character of a plagiary. (Swift's Tale.) My sister's principles in many particulars differ; but there has been always such a harmony between us that she seldom smiles upon those who have suffered me to pass with a contemptuous negligence.

(Hawkesworth.)

1. CONTENTMENT, 2. SATISFACTION.

1. Zufriedenheit; 2. Zufriedenheit, Befriedigung.

Die Zufriedenheit, welche der erste Ausdruck in sich schließt, liegt in uns selbst: wir wünschen nichts mehr, wir haben genug, die, welche das zweite Hauptwort bezeichnet, rührt von außern Dingen her: man ist zufrieden, wenn man seinen Wunsch erreicht hat.

The contented man will not be dissatisfied; but he who looks for satisfaction will never be contented. A contented man can never be miserable; a satisfied man can scarcely be long happy. Our duty bids us be contented; our desires ask to be satisfied.

What makes man wretched? happiness deny'd?
Lorenzo! no, 'tis happiness disdain'd,

She comes too meanly dress'd to win our smile,
And calls herself Content, a homely name.
1 do not think

(Youngs N. Th.)

(Knowles's Will. Tell.)

Come now, I hope there is no dissatisfied person, but what is con tent; for as I have been disappointed myself, it will be very hard if I have not the satisfaction of seeing other people succeed better.

(Sheridan's Rivals.)

1. CONVENIENT, 2. SUITABLE.

1. Schicklich, anständig, passend, angemessen; 2. gemäß, angemessen.

Das erste bezieht sich auf die Umstände oder die Gefühle einer Person; das zweite auf irgend eine vorgeschriebene Form oder Regel, auf die feststehenden Meinungen der Menschen, und ist eng verbunden mit moralischer Schicklichkeit.

Nothing is convenient which does not favour one's purpose: nothing is suitable which does not suit the person, place, and thing. Whoever has any thing to ask of another must take a convenient opportunity in order to ensure success; his address on such an occasion would be very unsuitable, if he affected to claim as a right what he ought to solicit as a favour.

If any man think it convenient to seem good, let him be so indeed, and then his goodness will appear to every body's satisfaction.

(Tillotson.)

As I should be very sorry to interrupt your sunday's engagement, if monday, or any other day of the ensuing week, would be equally convenient to yourself and friend, I will then have the honour of accepting his invitation. (Byron's Lett.) Pleasure in general is the consequent apprehension of a suitable object, suitably applied to a rightly disposed faculty.

1. CRIMINAL, 2. GUILTY.

(South.)

1. Verbrecherisch, verdammlich, strafbar; 2. schuldig.

Das erste Udjectivum bezieht sich auf die Art des Vergehens, das zweite auf die Thatsache eines Vergehens; das erste bezeichnet etwas positiv Bôses, das zweite wird nach der Schuld bestimmt.

A person may sometimes be criminal without being guilty. He who contradicts another abruptly in conversation is guilty of a breach of politeness. It is very criminal to sow dissension among men; although there are too many who from a busy temper are guilty of this offence.

True modesty avoids every thing that is criminal; false modesty every thing that is unfashionable. (Addison.)

I cannot think the endeavour at temporal power from the service at the altar, a less guilt, than building a false superstructure upon that foundation, which only can be laid for spiritual and holy purposes. (Steele, Rom. Eccles. hist.) Guill hears appall'd with deeply troubled thought;

And yet not always on the guilty head

Descends the fated flash.

In sullen mood he lay reclined,
Revolving, in his stormy mind,
The felon deed, the fruitless guilt,
His patron's blood by treason spilt;

A crime, it seemed, so dire and dread,
That it had power to wake the dead.

(Thomson.)

(W. Scott's Rokeby.)

The cringing train of pow'r survey,
What creatures are so low as they?
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their rise is on their meanness built,
And flatt'ry is their smallest guilt.

(Gay's Fables.)

1. To CRY, 2. WEEP.

1. Schreien, weinen, jammern; 2. weinen, klagen.

Das erste Zeitwort bezeichnet, Thrånen vergießen, mit Schreien verbunden, oder bloßes Schreien; das zweite bloß das Vergießen von Thrånen.

Children and weak people commonly cry. Weeping when called forth by others' sorrows, is an infirmity, which no man would wish to be without.

Her poor daughter, she said crying, was wandering some where about the road. (Sentim. Journey.)

The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast,
Scared at the dazzling helm and nodding crest.

(Pope.)

I thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes,
I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloster;
Thou must be patient; we came crying hither.
Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,
We wawl, and
cry: - I will preach to thee; mark me.
(King Lear.)

1. Fein, verschmigt, schlau, argliftig; 2. fein, listig, verschmitßt; 3. fein, schlau; 4. schlau, listig, fein; 5. schlau, verschlagen, verschmitt.

Alle diese Beiwörter bedeuten eine Fähigkeit, besondere und geheime Mittel zur Erreichung eines Zweckes anzuwenden; sie weichen hauptsächlich in der Art ab, die Mittel geheimnißvoll zu umhüllen, oder in dem Grade des Ueberlistens. Cunning ist Gewandtheit, zu verbergen, und erfordert wenig mehr, als Zurückhaltung und Verschlossenheit; crafty bezeichnet mehr, seine Worte und Handlungen so gestalten, daß sie den Argwohn einschläfern; subtle bedeutet, mehr Feinheit in der Erfindung, als cunning und crafty, seine Anschläge in einen, für den gewöhnlichen Beobachter undurchdringlichen Schleier hüllen; cunning und crafty in Handlungen, subtle größtentheils in Worten, oder Worten und Handlungen verbunden. Slyness, eine gemeine Art, cunning: vorsichtig und unvermerkt, zu Werke zu gehen. Wiliness, eine cunning oder craft nur bei Fällen, wo man angegriffen wird oder sich vertheidigt, anwendbar.

A child may be cunning; the cunning man looks only to the concealment of an immediate object; men are cunning in their ordinary concerns. An old man will be crafty; the crafty and subtle has a remote object to conceal; politicians are crafty or subtle but the former is more so as to the end, and the latter as to the means.

If Comnenus commonly employed cunning and dissimulation instead of courage his expedients were the disgrace of the age, rather than his own. (W. Scott's R. of P.) There is another secret that can never fail if you can once get it believed, and which is often practised by women of greater cunning than virtue. (Addison.) Cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes of them.

(Addison.) You will find the examples to be few and rare of wicked unprincipled men attaining fully the accomplishment of their crafty designs. (Blair.)

Having prevailed on the Sultan to give her only daughter in marriage to Rustan the Grand Vizier, she disclosed her scheme to that crafty minister, who perceiving that it was his own interest to cooperate with her, readily promised his assistance towards aggrandizing that branch of the royal line to which he was so nearly allied. (Rob. Charles V.) To all these female intrigues Rustan added an artifice still more subtle, which completed the Sultan's delusion, and heightened his jealousy and fear. (Rob. Ch. V.)

Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels.

(Milton's P. L.) If you or your correspondent had consulted me in your discourse upon the eye, I could have told you that the eye of Leonora is slyly watchful while it looks negligent.

(Steele.)

I am very often tempted to make away with a very fat butler that I possess, and pop him slyly into the reservoir. (Bulw. Pomp.)

Implore his aid; for Proteus only knows
The secret cause and cure of all thy woes;
But first the wily wizard must be caught,

For, unconstrain'd, he nothing tells for nought. (Dryden.)

Too oft is a smile

But the hypocrite's wile,

To mask detestation, or fear.

(Byron's Poems.)

1. DARK, 2. OBSCURE, 3. DIM.

1. Dunkel; finster; 2. dunkel, 3. dunkel, blaß; trüb.

Das erste hat eine stärkere Bedeutung, als das zweite; im ersten Falle mangelt das Licht ganz, im legtern ist es bloß vermindert; das erste wird light, das legte bright entgegengesett; das dritte bezeichnet bloß eine Art Dunkelheit, und wird mehr in Bezug auf die sehende Person, als auf den gesehenen Gegenstand gebraucht.

A corner is dark or obscure; all passages in ancient writers which allude to circumstances no longer known, must necessarily be obscure. The owl is obliged, from the weakness of its visua organs, to seek the darkest corners in the daytime. His eyes grow dim. Her sight grows dim. The light is dim, by which things are but dimly seen.

And in the depth of forests, darkling,

The watch fires in the distance sparkling.

(Byron's Mazeppa.)

Then sorrow's livery dims the air,
And dies in darkness, like despair.

(W. Scott's Rokeby.)

I marvel at nothing so much as that men will gird themselves at discovering obscure beauties in an author, answered Shakspeare; certes the greatest and most pregnant beauties are ever the plainest and most evidently striking; and when two meanings of a passage can in the least balance our judgments which to prefer, I hold it matter of unquestionable certainty, that neither of them is worth a farthing.

(Fielding's Journey.) The Egyptian raised his eyes to Glaucus with a sudden and piercing glance. I do not understand you", said he coldly, but it is the custom to consider wit lies in obscurity."

(Bulwer's Last days of Pompei.) Here the bandage was removed from his eyes, and he found himself in a patio or court, dimly lighted by a single lamp.

(W. Irving's Alhambra,)

The sky was dull, and dim, and gray,

And a low breeze crept moaning by.

(Byron's Mazeppa.)

1. DECAY, 2. DECLINE.

1. Verfall, Abnahme; 2. Verfall, Abnahme.

Das erste Hauptwort bedeutet, daß Dinge ihre Vollkommenheit, Größe und Dauer verloren; das zweite, daß sie ihre Stärke, Wirksamkeit und ihren Glanz verloren, und sich ihrem Untergange nåhern.

The decay of states in the moral world takes place by the same process as the decay of fabrics in the natural world. The health may experience a decline at any period of life from a variety of causes, but it naturally experiences a decay in old age. The decline of empires, from their state of elevation and splendour, is a natural figure drawn from the decline of the setting sun.

From this period the house of Ravenswood was supposed to have dated its decay. (W. Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.) Charles the Fifth's elms in the island-garden close to the palace

1 DECEIT, 2. DECEPTION.

1. Betrug, List, Hinterlist; 2. Betrügen, Betrug, Täuschung. Das erste Hauptwort bedeutet Neigung zum Betrug, absichtlicher Be trug und zwar der schlechtesten Art, das zweite bezeichnet oft nur die Kunst zu betrügen, einen solchen Betrug, der aus unwichtigen, wenn nicht unschådlichen Bewegungsgründen entspringt.

A person or a conduct is deceitful; an appearance is deceptive. A panoramic exhibition is an agreeable deception. A deceitful person has