es it
differ from _antipathy_? Which is positive? and which negative?
EXAMPLES.
Christianity is the solvent of all race ----.
From my soul I loathe
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn, object of my implacable ----.
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ANTIQUE (page 48).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _antique_ refer? _antiquated_? 2. Is the difference
between them a matter of time? Give examples. 3. Can a modern building
be _antiquated_? Can it be _antique_? 4. What is the significance of
_quaint_?
EXAMPLES.
My copper lamps, at any rate,
For being true ----, I bought.
I do love these ---- ruins,
We never tread upon them but we set
Our foot upon some reverend history.
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ANXIETY (page 49).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _anxiety_ in the primary sense? Is it mental or physical? 2.
How does _anxiety_ differ from _anguish_? 3. What kind of possibility
does _anxiety_ always suggest? 4. How does it differ from
_apprehension_, _fear_, _dread_, etc., in this regard? 5. What is
_worry_? _fretfulness_? 6. Does _perplexity_ involve anxiety?
EXAMPLES.
Yield not to ---- the future, weep not for the past.
Superstition invested the slightest incidents of life with needless
----.
---- is harder than work, and far less profitable.
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APATHY (page 50).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _apathy_? 2. How does it differ from the Saxon word
_unfeelingness_? from _indifference_? from _insensibility_? from
_unconcern_? 3. How does _stoicism_ differ from _apathy_?
EXAMPLES.
In lazy ---- let stoics boast
Their virtue fixed: 'tis fixed as in a frost.
At length the morn and cold ---- came.
He sank into a ---- from which it was impossible to arouse him.
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APOLOGY (page 51).
QUESTIONS.
1. What change of meaning has _apology_ undergone? 2. What does an
_apology_ now always imply? 3. How does an _apology_ differ from an
_excuse_? 4. Which of these words may refer to the future? 5. How does
_confession_ differ from _apology_?
EXAMPLES.
---- only account for that which they do not alter.
Beauty is its own ---- for being.
There is no refuge from ---- but suicide; and suicide is ----.
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