Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar / to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language

by Ferdinando Bottarelli

1. 1. Remember
   2. ricordársi
   3. your master’s words;
   4. maéstro paróla
   5. he exhorts you to
   6. esortáre
   7. industry,
   8. indústria
   9. which is
   10. éssere
   11. beneficial
   12. vantaggióso
   13. to yourselves;
   14. your pains
   15. lavóro
   16. shall produce
   17. prodúrre
   18. a great advantage;
   19. grande vantággio
   20. he uses his best endeavours
   21. fare ogni suo sforzo
   22. for your benefit;
   23. utile
   24. be not your own enemies.
   25. éssere di voi stessi nemíco.

Paragonáre requires an Accusative of the first Noun, (either of the Person or of the Thing) and the other in the Dative.

1. 1. If we compare
   2. se paragonáre
   3. the longest life
   4. lungo vita
   5. to eternity,
   6. eternità
   7. it is very
   8. short.
   9. corto.

1. 1. If we compare
   2. comparáre
   3. the happiest condition
   4. felíce condizióne
   5. of this world
   6. mondo
   7. to everlasting life,
   8. etérno vita
   9. it is miserable, and
   10. miserábile
   11. not worthy our desire.
   12. indegno desidério
   13. If we compare
   14. paragonáre
   15. the number of good men
   16. número buóno
   17. to the multitude of wicked,
   18. moltitúdine malvágio
   19. it is small.
   20. píccolo.

Dare and restituíre will have an Accusative of the Thing, and a Dative of the Person.

1. 1. I will soon give
   2. presto dare
   3. my mother
   4. madre
   5. the money
   6. danáro
   7. she entrusted me
   8. confidáre
   9. with.

1. 1. God will give
   2. Iddío dare
   3. a reward
   4. mercéde
   5. to those men
   6. who please him,
   7. quello piacére
   8. and to
   9. those whom
   10. quello che
   11. he has set up
   12. avére costituíto
   13. governors of the world.
   14. governatóre mondo.

1. 1. I returned
   2. restituíre
   3. my master
   4. maéstro
   5. the book
   6. libro
   7. which I borrowed;
   8. prender ad impréstito
   9. he lent it to me,
   10. prestáre
   11. and it was my duty
   12. éssere dovére
   13. to read it,
   14. léggere
   15. and not to keep it;
   16. tenére
   17. though
   18. benchè[1]
   19. books delight me very much,
   20. libro piacére moltíssimo
   21. I ought to restore them
   22. dovére restituíre
   23. to those whom
   24. quello cui
   25. they belong to.
   26. appartenére.

[1] Benchè governs the subjunctive mood. See Gram. p. 209.