st.
The storm raged without, but within the house all was brightness and
----.
There is no ---- so sweet and abiding as that of doing good.
This is the very ---- of love.
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HAPPY (page 190).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original meaning of _happy_? With what words is it allied
in this sense? 2. In what way is _happy_ a synonym of _blessed_? 3. What
is the meaning of _happy_ in its most frequent present use?
EXAMPLES.
---- are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.
To what ---- accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit.
A ---- heart maketh a ---- countenance.
I would not spend another such a night,
Tho 'twere to buy a world of ---- days.
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HARMONY (page 191).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _harmony_? 2. How does _harmony_ compare with _agreement_? 3.
How do _concord_ and _accord_ compare with _harmony_ and with each
other? 4. What is _conformity_? _congruity_? 5. What is _consistency_?
6. What is _unanimity_? 7. How do _consent_ and _concurrence_ compare?
EXAMPLES.
We have made a covenant with death and with hell are we at ----.
Tyrants have made desperate efforts to secure outward ---- in
religious observances without ---- of religious belief.
That action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the
political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers
draws out the ---- of the universe.
The speaker was, by general ----, allowed to proceed.
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HARVEST (page 192).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original meaning of _harvest_? its later meaning? 2. How
does _harvest_ compare with _crop_? 3. What is _produce_? How does it
differ from _product_? 4. What is the meaning of _proceeds_? _yield_?
_return_? 5. Is _harvest_ capable of figurative use, and in what sense?
6. What is the special meaning of _harvest-home_? _harvest-tide_?
_harvest-time_?
EXAMPLES.
Just tickle the earth with a hoe, and she laughs with an abundant
----.
And the ripe ---- of the new-mown hay gives it a sweet and wholesome
odor.
It soweth here with toil and care
But the ---- of love is there.
Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
But fell like autumn ---- that mellowed long.
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HATRED (page 193).
QUESTIO
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