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Note 8 — Section 18. GIVE⁠[1] THE HONOUR TO GOD ALONE.

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[1] Say ‘Give God alone the honour’.

[2] to apply to a person on behalf of somebody, sich bei einem für jemand verwenden.

[3] Menschenfreund, m.

[4] To avoid ambiguity turn the pron. ‘he’ here by ‘Reynolds’.

[5] ‘liberally’, here reichlich.

[6] The conjunction ‘when’, used in the sense of ‘whenever’, and referring to indefinite time, must be rendered by ‘wenn’ (compare S. 4, N. 2); as—

When (whenever) my old teacher came to Hamburg, he always stayed with me. Wenn mein alter Lehrer nach Hamburg kam, wohnte er stets bei mir.

[7] The verb ‘lehren’, to teach, requires the accusative of the person. Render the sentence ‘I — benefactor’ by ‘I will teach him to be thankful to his benefactor’.

[8] Halt´!

[9] to be mistaken, sich irren.

[10] Teach — higher, Lehre ihn höher blicken.

[11] The pronoun ‘Him’ is here used as a demonstr. pron.; ‘both ... and’, sowohl ... wie auch; ‘to give’, here = to send.

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