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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. * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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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