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PASSAGES TO BE TRANSLATED INTO BOHEMIAN

EXERCISE I.

The number of the parochial clergy increased during those times as remarkably in consequence of the founding of so many new German villages and the increase and spread of the towns. Where now with a population of five millions we reckon in Bohemia and the county of Glatz something like 1,900 parish churches, there were (of them) in the time of the Emperor Charles about 2,100; of inhabitants there were hardly quite three millions.

number, počet.

parochial, here use svítstký, i.e. belonging to the world, as opposed to the regulars.

to increase (itself), rozmnožili se, 4th conj.

omit ' during' and put ' times' (doia,{.) in the ace, in which case duration of time is generally put.

as remarkably, rovněž zna- menité. Observe i used for emphasis (see p. 29),

in consequence of, následkem (gen.).

so many, toliko.

new, nový.

a village, vesnice, s.f. German, německý (fr. root němý, dumb, because the Germans