Note 3 — Section 124. DR. GUTHRIE ON RAGGED SCHOOLS. II.
Reading edition
[1] The — himself, Da saß der Schuhflicker, wie er leibte und lebte.
[2] spectacles, die Brille; on, auf, with the def. art.
[3] broad.
[4] indicating = gave evidence of (zeugen von).
[5] benevolence — cobbler = shone forth (erglänzen) a pair of benevolent eyes with which he looked (blicken) upon a number (Anzahl, f.) of poor, ragged (zerlumpt) boys and girls who learned their lessons (Aufgabe, f.) and stood around the busy (= industrious) cobbler. To stand around a person, um einen herum´stehen.
[6] to take pity on a person, sich jemandes erbarmen, with gen.
[7] Use the gen. of the adjectives.
[8] left — streets = which ministers (Geistliche) and magistrates (Obrigkeit, f.) had left (überlas´sen) to their ruin in (auf) the streets. Read App. § 17.
[9] After ‘how’ follows the subject ‘he’ according to S. 66, N. 15.
[10] wretched = unfortunate; gathered in = assembled around himself, um sich her versammelte.
[11] to train, erzie´hen; to, für.
[12] und wie er sie, während er ... verdiente.
[13] by — brow, im Schweiße seines Angesichtes, which place after ‘daily bread’.
[14] to rescue from misery, aus dem Elend ziehen. The auxiliary verb, which must be used in the Subjunctive, according to App. §§ 28 and 30, may be omitted in the intermediate clauses of this long period, and placed but once at the end of the entire passage.
[15] Use the dat. of the def. art.
[16] The word ‘gentlemen’ is best used in its unaltered form in this passage. It should be placed in inverted commas.
[17] to feel ashamed of oneself, sich beschämt fühlen.
[18] Say ‘The little (was) I had done was to me (mir) a reproach’.
[19] feelings = heart.
[20] I well remember = I know yet very well.
[21] Say ‘that I said in the enthusiasm of the moment’, etc.
[22] das Gesagte zu widerrufen.
[23] macht der Menschheit Ehre.
[24] = which ever (je) has been raised within the British Isles.