m_ signify in legal use, and how
does it differ from _swear_? 5. What is it to _certify_? 6. What does
_vindicate_ signify?
EXAMPLES.
The first condition of intelligent debate is that the question be
clearly ----ed.
We ---- that the sciences dispose themselves round two great axes of
thought, parallel and not unrelated, yet distinct--the natural
sciences held together by the one, the moral by the other.
It is impossible for the mind to ---- anything of that of which it
knows nothing.
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STORM (page 343).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential meaning of _storm_? 2. What is a _tempest_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- is hard at hand will sweep away
Thrones, churches, ranks, traditions, customs, marriage.
Were any considerable mass of air to be suddenly transferred from
beyond the tropics to the equator, the difference of the rotatory
velocity proper to the two situations would be so great as to
produce not merely a wind, but a ---- of the most destructive
violence.
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STORY (page 343).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _story_? Is it true or false? 2. What is an _anecdote_? a
_narrative_ or _narration_?
EXAMPLES.
There are ----, common to the different branches of the Aryan
stock.... They are ancient Aryan ----, ... older than the Odyssey,
older than the dispersion of the Aryan race.
----s are relations of detached, interesting particulars.
Fairy ----s have for children an inexhaustible charm.
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SUBJECTIVE (page 345).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _subjective_? of _objective_? 2. How are these
words illustrated in the case of a mountain? 3. What matters are purely
_subjective_? 4. What matters are purely _objective_? 5. What is meant
by saying that an author has a _subjective_ or an _objective_ style?
EXAMPLES.
Subject therefore, denotes the mind itself; and ----, that which
belongs to, or proceeds from, the thinking subject. Object is a term
for that about which the knowing subject is conversant, ... while
---- means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object
known, and not from the subject knowing; and thus denotes what is
real, in opposition to what is ideal,--what exists in nature, in
contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the
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