air large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute ----.
We have strict ----, and most biting ----.
Napoleon gave France the best ---- of ---- she has ever possessed.
---- is physical, established sequence; intellectual, a condition of
intellectual action in order that truth may be reached; and moral,
an imperative which determines the right guidance of our higher
life.
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LIBERTY (page 230).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _freedom_? 2. What is _liberty_ in the primary sense? in the
widest sense? 3. How do _freedom_ and _liberty_ compare? 4. How is
_independence_ used in distinction from _freedom_ and _liberty_? 5. Is
_freedom_ or _liberty_ more freely used in a figurative sense? 6. What
is _license_? How does it compare with _liberty_ and _freedom_?
EXAMPLES.
In Rousseau's philosophy ---- is conceived of as lawlessness.
When ---- from her mountain-height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
The ---- to go higher than we are is given only when we have
fulfilled amply the duty of our present sphere.
---- they mean when they cry ----!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.
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LIGHT (page 231).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _light_? 2. What are the characteristics of a _flame_? a
_blaze_? 3. What is a _flare_? a _flash_? 4. What is the sense of
_glare_ and _glow_? How do they differ, and to what are they applied? 5.
To what do _shine_ and _sheen_ refer? 6. What do _glimmer_, _glitter_,
and _shimmer_ denote? 7. What is _gleam_? a _glitter_? a _sparkle_?
_glistening_? 8. What is _scintillation_? in what two senses used? 9. To
what are _twinkle_ and _twinkling_ applied? 10. What is _illumination_?
_incandescence_?
EXAMPLES.
From a little spark may burst a mighty ----.
A ---- as of another life, my kindling soul received.
It is ----, that enables us to see the differences between things;
and it is Christ that gives us ----.
White with the whiteness of the snow,
Pink with faintest rosy ----,
They blossom on their sprays.
Ghastly in the ---- of day.
---- in golden coats like images.
So ---- a good deed in a naughty world.
There's but the ---- of a star
Between a man of peace and war.
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