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LAW (page 229).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the definition of _law_ in its ideal? What does it signify in common use? 2. What are the characteristics of _command_ and _commandment_? of an _edict_? 3. What is a _mandate_? a _statute_? an _enactment_? 4. In what special connection is _formula_ commonly used?
_ordinance_? _order_? 5. What is the meaning of _law_ in such an expression as "the _laws_ of nature?" What in more strictly scientific use? 6. What is a _code_? _jurisprudence_? _legislation_? What is an _economy_? Is _law_ ever a synonym for these words, and in what way?
EXAMPLES.
Order is Heaven's first ----; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.
Those he commands move only in ----, Nothing in love.
His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute ----.
We have strict ----, and most biting ----.
Napoleon gave France the best ---- of ---- she has ever possessed.
---- is physical, established sequence; intellectual, a condition of intellectual action in order that truth may be reached; and moral, an imperative which determines the right guidance of our higher life.
LIBERTY (page 230).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _freedom_? 2. What is _liberty_ in the primary sense? in the widest sense? 3. How do _freedom_ and _liberty_ compare? 4. How is _independence_ used in distinction from _freedom_ and _liberty_? 5. Is _freedom_ or _liberty_ more freely used in a figurative sense? 6. What is _license_? How does it compare with _liberty_ and _freedom_?
EXAMPLES.
In Rousseau's philosophy ---- is conceived of as lawlessness.
When ---- from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.
The ---- to go higher than we are is given only when we have fulfilled amply the duty of our present sphere.
---- they mean when they cry ----!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.
LIGHT (page 231).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _light_? 2. What are the characteristics of a _flame_? a _blaze_? 3. What is a _flare_? a _flash_? 4. What is the sense of _glare_ and _glow_? How do they differ, and to what are they applied? 5.
To what do _s.h.i.+ne_ and _sheen_ refer? 6. What do _glimmer_, _glitter_, and _s.h.i.+mmer_ denote? 7. What is _gleam_? a _glitter_? a _sparkle_?
_glistening_? 8. What is _scintillation_? in what two senses used? 9. To what are _twinkle_ and _twinkling_ applied? 10. What is _illumination_?
_incandescence_?
EXAMPLES.
From a little spark may burst a mighty ----.
A ---- as of another life, my kindling soul received.
It is ----, that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ that gives us ----.
White with the whiteness of the snow, Pink with faintest rosy ----, They blossom on their sprays.
Ghastly in the ---- of day.
---- in golden coats like images.
So ---- a good deed in a naughty world.
There's but the ---- of a star Between a man of peace and war.
LISTEN (page 232).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _hear_ signify? What does _listen_ add to the meaning of _hear_? 2. What does _attend_ add to the meaning of _listen_? 3. What does _heed_ further imply? 4. What is the difference between _listen for_ and _listen to_?
EXAMPLES.
And ----! how blithe the throstle sings; He, too, is no mean preacher;
Till I ---- and ---- If a step draweth near.
Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song; I ---- it in the opening year, I ----, and it cheers me long.
----, every one That ---- may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale.
The men lay silent in the tall gra.s.s ---- for the signal gun that should bid them rise and charge.
