rious_? 2. What is the implication
if we say one is _industrious_ just now? 3. What does _diligent_ add to
the meaning of _industrious_?
EXAMPLES.
Look cheerfully upon me,
Here, love; thou see'st how ---- I am.
The ---- have no time for tears.
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INDUSTRY (page 216).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _industry_? 2. What does _assiduity_ signify as indicated by
its etymology? _diligence_? 3. How does _application_ compare with
_assiduity_? 4. What is _constancy_? _patience_? _perseverance_? 5. What
is _persistence_? What implication does it frequently convey? 6. How
does _industry_ compare with _diligence_? 7. To what do _labor_ and
_pains_ especially refer?
EXAMPLES.
Honors come by ----; riches spring from economy.
'Tis ---- supports us all.
There is no success in study without close, continuous, and intense
----.
His ---- in wickedness would have won him enduring honor if it had
taken the form of ---- in a better cause.
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INFINITE (page 216).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _infinite_ derived, and with what meaning? To
what may it be applied? 2. How do _countless_, _innumerable_, and
_numberless_ compare with _infinite_? 3. What is the use of _boundless_,
_illimitable_, _limitless_, _measureless_, and _unlimited_? 4. What are
the dimensions of _infinite_ space? What is the duration of _infinite_
time?
EXAMPLES.
My bounty is as ---- as the sea, my love as deep, the more I give to
thee, the more I have, for both are ----.
Man's inhumanity to man makes ---- thousands mourn.
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INFLUENCE (page 217).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _influence_? is one _influenced_ by external or
internal force? 2. To what kind of power does _actuate_ refer? Does one
person _actuate_ or _influence_ another? 3. What do _prompt_ and _stir_
imply? 4. What is it to _excite_? 5. What do _incite_ and _instigate_
signify? How do these two words differ? 6. What do _urge_ and _impel_
imply? How do they differ in the source of the power exerted? 7. What do
_drive_ and _compel_ imply, and how do these two words compare with each
other?
EXAMPLES.
He was ---- by his own violent passions to desperate crime.
And well she can ----.
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which
Men are and ought to be a
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