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Sweetest ---- Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
----, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory.
Ring out ye crystal spheres And with your ninefold ---- Make up full consort to the angelic ----.
MEMORY (page 239).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _memory_ in the special and in the general sense? 2. What is _remembrance_, and how distinguished from _memory_? 3. Is _remembrance_ voluntary or involuntary? 4. What is _recollection_, and what does it involve? 5. What is _reminiscence_? _retrospection_? How do these two words differ?
EXAMPLES.
---- like a purse, if it be over-full that it can not shut, all will drop out of it; take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appet.i.te of thy ---- spoil the digestion thereof.
---- wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
It is a favorite device of eminent men to devote their old age to writing their ----s, thus quietly living over again a busy or tumultuous life.
MERCY (page 239).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _mercy_ in the strictest sense? 2. To what cla.s.s is _grace_ shown? 3. To what cla.s.s are _mercy_, _forgiveness_, and _pardon_ extended? 4. In what wider significations is _mercy_ used? 5. What is _clemency_? _leniency_ or _lenity_? How do these words compare with _mercy_?
EXAMPLES.
How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And ---- then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
The only protection which the conquered could find was in the moderation, the ----, and the enlarged policy of the conquerors.
To favor sin is to discourage virtue; undue ---- to the bad is unkindness to the good.
METER (page 240).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _euphony_? How does it differ from _meter_, _measure_, and _rhythm_? 2. How are _rhythm_ and _meter_ produced? 3. How does _meter_ differ from _rhythm_? 4. What is a _verse_ in the strict sense? In what wider sense is the word often used?
EXAMPLES.
---- is a very vague and unscientific term. Each nation considers its own language, each tribe its own dialect, euphonic.
---- may be defined to be a succession of poetical feet arranged in regular order according to certain types recognized as standards, in verses of a determinate length.
We have three princ.i.p.al domains in which ---- manifests its nature and power--dancing, music, poetry.
MIND (page 241).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _mind_? How does it differ from _intellect_? 2. What does _consciousness_ include? Is it attended with distinct thinking and willing? 3. What is the _soul_? 4. From what is _spirit_ used in special contradistinction? How does it differ from _soul_? 5. What is Paley's definition of _instinct_? 6. In what contrasted meanings is the word _sense_ employed? 7. What is _thought_?
EXAMPLES.
A great ---- will be strong to live, as well as to think.
G.o.d is a ----: and they that wors.h.i.+p him must wors.h.i.+p him in ---- and in truth.
MINUTE (page 242).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _minute_? 2. When is a thing said to be _comminuted_? 3. How does _fine_ differ from _comminuted_? 4. What terms are applied to an account extended to _minute_ particulars? to an examination similarly extended?
EXAMPLES.
No ---- room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write.
Life hangs on, held by a ---- thread.
An organism so ---- as to be visible only under the microscope, yet possessed of life, motion, and seeming intelligence is a source of ceaseless wonder.
MISFORTUNE (page 242).
QUESTIONS.
