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Braddon
Hallo,
ich kämpfe wieder mal mit fehlenden Seiten.
Kann jemand helfen aus den drei Absätzen in Englisch einen halbwegs vernüftigen Text zu machen, Dann bekomme ich die Geschichte komplett.
Google-translate ist da doch zu schlecht.
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‘ Sir,’ said Dr. Johnson, ‘I like a good hater !’ Philip Rayner
used to boast that in this respect he was a man
after the great lexicograepher’s heart. ‘ I never forgive
an injury,‘ he said, ‘ and I never forget a kindness.’
True, there are certain gracieus sentences recorded
in the teaching of our Sevieur, end treasured in the
writings of St. Paul, which do not quite hermonise
with Samuel Johnson‘s dictum ; sentences which inculcate
an inexhaustible capacity for the pardon of
wrongs; precepts which show us how poor a thing it
is only to love them who love us. Perhaps Philip
Rayner would have been very angry in theee early
days if any one had dispute his claim to the title of
Christian. He went to church once every Sunday ;
twice sometimes, when the day of rest seemed especially
long, and he had nothing better to do with his
afternoon leisure ; and if he did not listen very attentively
to the voice of the preacher, or join with any
greet favour in the ritual, he at least offered a good
example to the multitude by his well-brushed clothes,
spotless linen, and decorous behavieur. He paid his
debts to the uttermost farthing, and was not altogether
wanting in benevolence, contributing to certain oldestablished
respectable cherities in a fair proportion to his income.
The world in which he lived spoke well of Philip
Rayner. He was a clever prosperous young man,
with a character unsullied by vice, an agreeable personal
appearance, and a manner that was very quiet,
but net wanting in pleasentness. A thoughtful young
man too, who was apt to contemplate all things in
their gravest aspect. For the rest he was very happily
placed in the world, being the only son af a
wealthy leather merchant, who had carried on a prosperous
trade for the last forty years in some gloomy
old premises in the river-side district beyend the
Tower.
Hie father had educated this only soen upon a
rough-and-ready principle of his own. No Eton or
Harrow, no expensive University education, no riotous
career amongst the patrician youth of Oxferd or
Cambridge, to spoil the lad for Commercial pursuits,
and a quiet humdrum middle-class life. Old Samuel
Rayner sent his boy to a respectable mercantile
aeademy, the principal whereof was instructed to give
his pupil a sound mercantile education; no perpetual
grinding at the adventuree of pieue AEneas, no useless
grabbing amongst Greek roots, but plenty of
book-keeping by double entry, a profound study of
tare end tret, end a familiar acqueintance with fractions.
This was the kind of teaching Mr. Rayner
demanded for his son, end the boy had it. His education
seemed to him rather a dull business altogether ;
but he went threugh it patiently enough, and finally
emerged from the mercantile academy a first-rate
arithmetican, a very fair French and German scholar,
and a marvel of excellence in the way of permanchip.
Danke
Hans-Jürgen
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