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Wwould like’: er möchte am liebsten nichts thun he
would like best to do nothing.
11. 2. zum Zeichen, as a token’; zu cexpresses the purpose or
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destination, as zum Geschenk as a present“; zum Spaß
lor a joke’; zum Zeitvertreib as a pasume.
Stein und Hardenberg: finance and civil administration
were the first durties of Stein, and when Japoleon had enforced
the retirement of that “ first statesman of Germany, Harden-
berg, in many respects the prototrpe of Bismarck, came into
0" flice as State Chancellor. (Forbes.)
im Sinken begriffen: ck. p. r5 1. 25 im Weichen be-
griffen, similarly im Bau begriffen; this p#st part.of begreifen
has the sense of czgpagen zz, as in the above three examples,
to be setting, to be retiring, in the course of building.'
Entzweiung mit Rußland: in 1810 Fapoleon was at
the height of his power; in that Jgear he annexged Holland,
the Hanseatic towns, Bremen, Lübeck, Hamburg, together
with Oldenburg, the mother-Tcountry (Stammland) of the
Russian reigning House. But t was the Continental
System'“ (Kontinentalsperre) that especially caused the
duarrel (Entzweiung) with Russia.
der General York, the aquiet, cool (unverfroren) man,
who did not meddle with politics, refused obedience (den
Gehorsam auffündigen) to the order that he should aid in
Covering the French retreat, and. further, made an agreement
#f neutrality with the Russian general.
kaum . als or kaum so, no sooner than.'“ The
first als is connected with kaum, ihe sccond als = than after
the comparative nichts Eiligeres nothing more urgent.'
Breslau on the Oder, capital of Silesia (Schlesien), whither
Scharnhorst and Blücher had already preceded the king.
erklärte er . den Krieg, ldeclared war against the
indirect obj. of ihe recipiem; similarly man drohte ihm
den Tod he was threatencc with death’; wir winkten
ihm ein Lebewohl zu #iee waved him a farewell.“
das eiserne Kreuz was founded Nlarch ro. 1813 for dis-
rinction (Auszeichnung) in lbe 1. dur. g tlia var of 1813,
1314, 1815 and was renewed for the war of 1870-71. In
1813 there were on it a crown, F. V., an oak-leas and 1813;
in 1870 a crown, W., 1870. There are two classes of this
decoration: ihe first class is worn on the left breast, the
second class with a black and white ribbon in the button
hole. It corresponds to our V.C.
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