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 ﻿College, Kollej, f-^p

of Charles, Karlovy (the cele- brated German emperor and Bohemian king who gave the Golden Bull).

to make, učinili.

an appeal, provolání.

the Utraquists or Calixtines,/^ obojí; the regular Bohemian expression for those who took the sacrament in both kinds. See oba, under numerals.

consistory, konzistoře.

academy, akademia.

the progress, prospívaní.

amidst, mezi.

arms, zbraň, s.f., sing.

to spread, rozšířili.

Gustavus Adolphus,   Gustav

Adolf. power, moc, s.f. over, po. part, cast, s.f. to establish, zařizovali. preparation, spusobeni. for himself, dat., like Lat. sibi. basis, foundations, základ, s.m.

(use plur.).

EXERCISE X.

After these changes in Church matters the Emperor Joseph was seized with his favourite idea quite at the beginning of his reign, that the German language should be established among all the Austrian peoples as the means of school organization. Already in the second month after the death cf Maria Theresa the imperial order went forth concerning Bohemia that no one should be received into a public school without an adequate knowledge of the German language (1780, Dec. 30). By a new arrangement of studies also, published in the year 1784, German was made the language in which instruction was to be given in the public schools in place of Latin; so also in the University of Prague the employment of the German language was extended, especially by the introduction of it into all the subjects of the philosophical faculty. Less care was taken about the advancement of knowledge in the University studies by the orders of the Government. The new regulations from