tem is it so necessary to ---- the powers of the
government as in a democratic state.
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REVENGE (page 316).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _revenge_? 2. How does _retaliation_ compare with _revenge_?
3. What did _vengeance_ formerly mean, and what does it now imply? 4.
What is a _requital_? 5. How do _avenging_ and _retribution_ differ from
_retaliation_, _revenge_, and _vengeance_? 6. What difference may be
noted between _avenging_ and _retribution_?
EXAMPLES.
According to the wish of Sulla himself, ... his monument was erected
in the Campus Martius, bearing an inscription composed by himself:
"No friend ever did me a kindness, no enemy a wrong, without
receiving full ----."
By the spirit of ----, as we sometimes express it, we generally
understand a disposition, not merely to return suffering for
suffering, but to inflict a degree of pain on the person who is
supposed to have injured us, beyond what strict justice requires.
In all great religions we find one God, and in all, personal
immortality with ----.
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REVOLUTION (page 317).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential idea of _revolution_? 2. Does a _revolution_
necessarily involve war? 3. What is _anarchy_? _insubordination_?
_sedition_? _revolt_? _rebellion_? 4. How does _rebellion_ differ from
_revolution_? 5. By what class of persons is _insurrection_ made?
_mutiny_?
EXAMPLES.
----s are not made; they come.
---- to tyrants is obedience to God.
Since government is of God, ---- must be contrary to his will.
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REVOLVE (page 318).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is a body said to _roll_? to _rotate_? to _revolve_? 2. In what
sense may the earth be said to _revolve_? and in what sense to _rotate_?
3. What are some of the extended uses of _roll_? 4. What kind of a word
is _turn_, and what is its meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Any bright star close by the pole is seen to ---- in a very small
circle whose center is the pole itself.
The sun ----s on an axis in the same direction in which the planets
---- in their orbits.
Human nature can never rest; once in motion it ----s like the stone
of Sisyphus every instant when the resisting force is suspended.
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RIGHT (page 319).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a
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