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LITERATURE (page 233).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _literature_ in the most general sense? in more limited sense? 2. What does _literature_, used absolutely, denote? 3. How may _literature_ include _science_? How is it ordinarily contrasted with _science_?
EXAMPLES.
Wherever ---- consoles sorrow or a.s.suages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears--there is exhibited in its n.o.blest form the immortal influence of Athens.
---- are lifelong friends.
---- are embalmed minds.
In our own language we have a ---- nowhere surpa.s.sed, in whose lock no foreign key will ever rust.
LOAD (page 233).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _burden_ derived, and with what primary meaning? _load_? 2. What does _weight_ signify? How does it compare with _load_ and _burden_? 3. What are _cargo_, _freight_, and _lading_? 4.
What is the distinctive sense of _pack_?
EXAMPLES.
Bear ye one another's ----.
Wearing all that ---- Of learning lightly like a flower.
The a.s.s will carry his ----, but not a double ----.
LOOK (page 234).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between _look_ and _see_? between these words and _behold_? 2. What is it to _gaze_? to _glance_? to _stare_? 3. What do _scan_, _inspect_, and _survey_ respectively express, and how are they distinguished from one another? 4. What element or elements does _watch_ add to the meaning of _look_?
EXAMPLES.
It is always well to ---- at people when addressing them.
Having eyes they ---- not, and having ears hear not.
Then gently ---- your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that ---- for the morning.
How peacefully the broad and golden moon Comes up to ---- upon the reaper's toil!
I am monarch of all I ----, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
But, ----, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
LOVE (page 235).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _affection_? 2. What may be given as a brief definition of _love_? 3. Does _affection_ apply to persons or things? To what does _love_ apply? 4. What term is preferable to _love_ as applying to articles of food and the like? 5. How does _love_ differ from _affection_? from _friends.h.i.+p_?
EXAMPLES.
Peace, commerce, and honest ---- with all nations help to form the bright constellation which has gone before us.
And you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your ----.
Yet pity for a horse o'erdriven And ---- in which my hound has part Can hang no weight upon my heart, In its a.s.sumptions up to heaven.
Such ---- and unbroken faith As temper life's worst bitterness.
MAKE (page 236).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential idea of _make_? 2. How is _make_ allied with _create_? 3. How is _make_ allied with _compose_ or _const.i.tute_? 4.
What are some chief antonyms for _make_? 5. What are the prepositions chiefly used with _make_, and how employed?
EXAMPLES.
In the beginning G.o.d ---- the heaven and the earth.
