Note 8 — Section 123. DR. GUTHRIE ON RAGGED SCHOOLS[1]. I.
Reading edition
[1] Doktor Guthrie über die Schulen für verwahrloste Kinder.—Sogenannte ‘Ragged Schools’ existieren in Deutschland wohl nicht, und zwar aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil wir sie bisher nicht nötig hatten.
[2] This passage requires an altogether different construction. Say ‘The circumstances which led me (welche mich dahin führten) to interest myself for the establishment of schools for neglected children, are an example of (davon) how through Providence (durch die Vorsehung) the fate of a man (Mensch)—his course of life (S. 76, N. 22, B, 1) like (gleich, with dat.) that of a river—can be determined and affected (beeinflußt) by very trivial (geringfügig) circumstances’. For the position of the verbs read App. §§ 16-20.
[3] ‘rather’, here = not a little.
[4] to remember, mich daran zu erinnern.
[5] zuerst.
[6] obscure = unknown.
[7] ‘burgh’, here Flecken, m.; the relat. clause ‘that — Forth’ may be elegantly rendered attributively, thus: am Ufer des Frith of Forth belegen, which last word inflect correctly and place before the qualified noun ‘burgh’.
[8] von.
[9] went to see = visited; place, Ort, m.; the adverbial clause of time is best placed at the head of the passage.
[10] Say ‘to (= in order to) refresh myself’.
[11] in holiday attire, im Festanzuge.
[12] Insert ‘which were’.
[13] there was = hung.
[14] print, Holzschnitt, m.; or Kupferstich, m.
[15] Supply ‘which was’; ‘respectable’, here = tolerable, erträglich.
[16] Since we commenced the preceding clause with a relative pronoun, it need not be repeated here. Substitute the conj. ‘and’ for ‘which’; a cobbler’s room = the workshop of a cobbler.