individual.

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SUGGESTION (page 347).

QUESTIONS.

1. In what way does a _suggestion_ bring a matter before the mind? 2.
What is an _intimation_? a _hint_? 3. What are the special
characteristics of _insinuation_ and _innuendo_?

EXAMPLES.

Behold in the bloom of apples,
And the violets in the sward,
A ---- of the old, lost beauty
Of the garden of the Lord!

Time is truly the comforter, at once lessening the tendency to ----
of images of sorrow, and softening that very sorrow when the images
arise.

An ---- is cowardly because it can seldom be directly answered, and
the one who makes it can always retreat behind an assumed
misconstruction of his words; but the ---- is the stab in the back,
sneaking as it is malicious.

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SUPERNATURAL (page 347).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the original meaning of _supernatural_? of _preternatural_?
2. What is commonly implied in the use of _preternatural_? 3. In what
sense do some hold a miracle to be _supernatural_? What descriptive term
would others prefer? 4. What is the meaning of _superhuman_? In what
secondary sense is it often used?

EXAMPLES.

It was something altogether ----, as when God said, 'Let there be
light,' and there was light.

With an imagination of intense vividness and ---- activity, Choate
was as practical as the most sordid capitalist that ever became an
"incarnation of fat dividends."

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SUPPORT (page 348).

QUESTIONS.

1. What do _support_ and _sustain_ alike signify? 2. How does _sustain_
surpass _support_ in meaning and force? 3. What is the force and use of
_bear_ in this connection? 4. What is it to _maintain_? 5. How does
_maintain_ compare with _support_ as to fulness and as to dignity? 6.
What is it to _prop_? What is the limit upon the meaning of this word?

EXAMPLES.

And Cain said, My punishment is great than I can ----.

You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth ---- my house.

Can a soul like mine,
Unus'd to power, and form'd for humbler scenes,
---- the splendid miseries of greatness?

While less expert, tho stronger far,
The Gael ----ed unequal war.

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SUPPOSE (page 348).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _suppos