nse is the word often used?
EXAMPLES.
---- is a very vague and unscientific term. Each nation considers
its own language, each tribe its own dialect, euphonic.
---- may be defined to be a succession of poetical feet arranged in
regular order according to certain types recognized as standards, in
verses of a determinate length.
We have three principal domains in which ---- manifests its nature
and power--dancing, music, poetry.
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MIND (page 241).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _mind_? How does it differ from _intellect_? 2. What does
_consciousness_ include? Is it attended with distinct thinking and
willing? 3. What is the _soul_? 4. From what is _spirit_ used in special
contradistinction? How does it differ from _soul_? 5. What is Paley's
definition of _instinct_? 6. In what contrasted meanings is the word
_sense_ employed? 7. What is _thought_?
EXAMPLES.
A great ---- will be strong to live, as well as to think.
God is a ----: and they that worship him must worship him in ----
and in truth.
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MINUTE (page 242).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _minute_? 2. When is a thing said to be
_comminuted_? 3. How does _fine_ differ from _comminuted_? 4. What terms
are applied to an account extended to _minute_ particulars? to an
examination similarly extended?
EXAMPLES.
No ---- room so warm and bright,
Wherein to read, wherein to write.
Life hangs on, held by a ---- thread.
An organism so ---- as to be visible only under the microscope, yet
possessed of life, motion, and seeming intelligence is a source of
ceaseless wonder.
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MISFORTUNE (page 242).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _misfortune_? Is the sufferer considered blameworthy for it?
2. What is _calamity_? _disaster_? 3. In what special sense are the
words _affliction_, _chastening_, _trial_, and _tribulation_ used? How
are these four words discriminated the one from another?
EXAMPLES.
He's not valiant that dares die,
But he that boldly bears ----.
I never knew a man in life who could not bear another's ----
perfectly like a Christian.
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MODEL (page 243).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _model_? a _pattern_? How are they distinguished from one
another? 2. Which admits of free
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