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nd the continent. * * * * * INVOLVE (page 223). QUESTIONS. 1. From what language is _involve_ derived, and with what primary meaning? 2. How does _involve_ compare with _implicate_? 3. Are these words used in the favorable or the unfavorable sense? 4. As regards results what is the difference between _include_, _imply_, and _involve_? EXAMPLES. Rocks may be squeezed into new forms, bent, contorted, and ----. An oyster-shell sometimes ---- a pearl. ---- in other men's affairs, he went down to their ruin. * * * * * JOURNEY (page 223). QUESTIONS. 1. From what language is _journey_ derived? What is its primary meaning? Its present meaning? 2. What is _travel_? How does it differ from _journey_? 3. What was the former meaning of _voyage_? its present meaning? 4. What is a _trip_? a _tour_? 5. What is the meaning and common use of _passage_? of _transit_? 6. What is the original meaning of _pilgrimage_? How is it now used? EXAMPLES. ---- makes all men countrymen. All the ---- of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. It were a ---- like the path to heaven, To help you find them. * * * * * JUDGE (page 224). QUESTIONS. 1. What is a _judge_ in the legal sense? 2. What other senses has the word _judge_ in common use? 3. What is a _referee_, and how appointed? an _arbitrator_? 4. What is the popular sense of _umpire_? the legal sense? 5. What is the present use of _arbiter_? 6. What are the _judges_ of the United States Supreme Court officially called? EXAMPLES. The end crowns all, And that old common ----, Time, Will one day end it. A man who is no ---- of law may be a good ---- of poetry. The ---- is only the mouth of law, and the magistrate who punishes is only the hand. * * * * * JUSTICE (page 225). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _justice_ in governmental relations? in social and personal relations? in matters of reasoning or literary treatment? 2. To what do _integrity_, _rectitude_, _right_, _righteousness_, and _virtue_ apply? What do all these include? 3. What two contrasted senses has _lawfulness_? 4. To what does _justness_ refer, and in what sense is it used? EXAMPLES. ---- exalteth a nation. ---- of life is fame's best friend.
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