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eople when addressing them. Having eyes they ---- not, and having ears hear not. Then gently ---- your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that ---- for the morning. How peacefully the broad and golden moon Comes up to ---- upon the reaper's toil! I am monarch of all I ----, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. But, ----, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. * * * * * LOVE (page 235). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _affection_? 2. What may be given as a brief definition of _love_? 3. Does _affection_ apply to persons or things? To what does _love_ apply? 4. What term is preferable to _love_ as applying to articles of food and the like? 5. How does _love_ differ from _affection_? from _friendship_? EXAMPLES. Peace, commerce, and honest ---- with all nations help to form the bright constellation which has gone before us. And you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your ----. Yet pity for a horse o'erdriven And ---- in which my hound has part Can hang no weight upon my heart, In its assumptions up to heaven. Such ---- and unbroken faith As temper life's worst bitterness. * * * * * MAKE (page 236). QUESTIONS. 1. What is the essential idea of _make_? 2. How is _make_ allied with _create_? 3. How is _make_ allied with _compose_ or _constitute_? 4. What are some chief antonyms for _make_? 5. What are the prepositions chiefly used with _make_, and how employed? EXAMPLES. In the beginning God ---- the heaven and the earth. The mason ----, the architect ----. I assert confidently that it is in the power of one American mother to ---- as many gentlemen as she has sons. Newton discovered, but did not ---- the law of gravitation. The river flows over a bed of pebbles like those that ---- the beach and the surrounding plains. A hermit and a wolf or two My whole acquaintance ----. If we were not willing, they possessed the power of ---- us to do them justice. The lessons of adversity sometimes soften and ----, but as often
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