etween them? How do they respectively
treat the material objects or images with which they deal? Which power
finds use in philosophy, science, and mechanical invention, and how?

EXAMPLES.

While ----, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

And as ---- bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

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IMMEDIATELY (page 211).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the primary meaning of _immediately_? Its meaning as an
adverb of time? 2. What did _by and by_ formerly signify? What is its
present meaning? 3. What did _directly_ formerly signify, and what does
it now commonly mean? 4. What change has _presently_ undergone? 5. Is
_immediately_ losing anything of its force? What words now seem more
emphatic?

EXAMPLES.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal ---- does always last.

Let us go up ----, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome
it.

Obey me ----!

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IMMERSE (page 212).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what language is _dip_ derived? from what _immerse_? 2. How do
the two words differ in dignity? How as to the completeness of the
action? How as to the continuance of the object in or under the liquid?
3. Which word is preferably used as to the rite of baptism? 4. What does
_submerge_ imply? 5. What are _douse_ and _duck_? 6. What special sense
has _dip_ which the other words do not share?

EXAMPLES.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past ---- its dead.

The ships of war, Congress and Cumberland, were ---- by the
Merrimac.

When food can not be swallowed, life may be prolonged by ---- the
body in nutritive fluids.

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IMMINENT (page 212).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what language is _imminent_ derived and with what primary sense?
_impending_? 2. How do _imminent_ and _impending_ differ in present use?
3. How does _threatening_ differ from the two words above given?

EXAMPLES.

And nodding Ilium waits the ---- fall.

And these she does apply for warnings, portents,
And evils ----.

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IMPEDIMENT (page 213).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _impediment_ primarily signify? _obstacle_? _obstruction_