d?

EXAMPLES.

He plays the violin with great ----, and delights an audience.

Whatever he did was done with so much ----,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.

It is often said with equal truth that we ought to take advantage of
the ---- which children possess of learning.

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EDUCATION (page 143).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the distinctive meaning of _education_? _instruction_?
_teaching_? 2. How is _instruction_ or _teaching_ related to
_education_? 3. How does _training_ differ from _teaching_? 4. What is
_discipline_? _tuition_? 5. What are _breeding_ and _nurture_, and how
do they differ from each other? 6. How are _knowledge_ and _learning_
related to _education_?

EXAMPLES.

The true purpose of ---- is to cherish and unfold the seed of
immortality already sown within us.

By ----, we do learn ourselves to know
And what to man, and what to God we owe.

---- maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact
man.

For natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by
----; and ----s themselves do give forth directions too much at
large, except they be bounded in by experience.

A branch of ---- is often put to an improper use, for fear of its
being idle.

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EFFRONTERY (page 144).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _audacity_? _hardihood_? 2. What special element does
_effrontery_ add to the meaning of _audacity_ and _hardihood_? 3. What
is _impudence_? _shamelessness_? 4. How does _effrontery_ compare with
these words? 5. What is _boldness_? Is it used in a favorable or an
unfavorable sense?

EXAMPLES.

When they saw the ---- of Peter and John, and perceived that they
were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled.

I ne'er heard yet
That any of these bolder vices wanted
Less ---- to gainsay what they did,
Than to perform it first.

I am not a little surprised at the easy ---- with which political
gentlemen in and out of Congress take it upon them to say that there
are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.

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EGOTISM (page 145).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _egoism_ and how does it differ from _egotism_? 2. What is
_self-assertion_? _self-conceit_? 3. Does _conceit_ differ from
_self-conceit_, a