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 ﻿accurate, legal, právní, relation,pomer, s.m. Bohemia, Cechy; used in plur. special, zlávstní. article, arlikul.

to establish, declare, unsiano-

son, syn.

to learn, uliti se, which origin- ally signifies ' to get used to,' and thus always takes the dative of the noun which it governs, thus: to learn the Bohemian language, učili se jazyku českému.

vili.

that, aby se; the se is put quite

at the beginning of the sen-

important, vážný.

tence, after a-by (fr. bych).

useful, potřebný.

EXERCISE VIII.

Quite at the beginning of his reign he devoted himself to great changes in matters of religion. He gave in the year 1781 the so-called edict or patent of toleration, by which permission was accorded to the Protestants to live in the imperial territories and to perform the services of God according to their rite openly, with certain exceptions and limitations. After so long a time which had passed since the Roman Catholic reformation of the Emperor Ferdinand II, there were always preserved in Bohemia remains of those who professed dissenting forms of faith, especially in the districts where there was not a sufficient number of clergy, and they now came forward openly with various and confused teaching, because for such a long time they had had no proper Church organization. By the officials and Roman Catholic community they were collectively called Hussites, being in reality rather descendants of the Bohemian Brothers.

immediately, quite, hned. reign, pánovaní, s.n.

at, na. : to give oneself, dali se.

the beginning, počátek. i changes, proměna, s.f.