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cognizance? 3. What is intuition? 4. What is experience, and how does it differ from intuition? 5. What is
learning? erudition?
EXAMPLES.
---- comes, but wisdom lingers.
The child is continually seeking ----; hence his endless questions.
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical ----, And coming events cast their shadows before.
----s lie at the very foundation of all reasoning.
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LANGUAGE (page 228).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation of language? What was its original signification? How wide is its present meaning?
2. As regards the use of words, what does language denote in the general and in the restricted sense? 3. What
does speech always involve? 4. Can we speak of the speech of animals? of their language? 5. What is a
dialect? a barbarism? an idiom? 6. What is a patois? How does it differ from a dialect? 7. What is a
vernacular?
EXAMPLES.
We must be free or die, who speak the ---- That Shakespeare spake: the faith and morals hold Which Milton
held.
---- is great; but silence is greater.
An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no ---- but a cry.
Thought leapt out to wed with Thought, Ere Thought could wed itself with ----.
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A Babylonish ---- Which learned pedants much affect.
O! good, my lord, no Latin; I'm not such a truant since my coming As not to know the ---- I have lived in.
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LARGE (page 229).
QUESTIONS.
1. To how many dimensions does large apply? How does it differ from long? 2. How does large compare
with great? with big?
EXAMPLES.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those ---- in war, are ---- in love.
Everything is twice as ---- measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale as on a thirty-year-old's six-foot
scale.
And his ---- manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, Pipes and whistles in its sound.
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LAW (page 229).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the definition of law in its ideal? What does it signify in common use? 2. What are the
characteristics of command and commandment? of an edict? 3. What is a mandate? a statute? an enactment?
4. In what special connection is formula commonly used? ordinance? order? 5. What is the meaning of law in
such an expression as "the laws of nature?" What in more strictly scientific use? 6. What is a code?
jurisprudence? legislation? What is an economy? Is law ever a synonym for these words, and in what way?
EXAMPLES.
Order is Heaven's first ----; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.
Those he commands move only in ----, Nothing in love.
His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute ----.
We have strict ----, and most biting ----.
Napoleon gave France the best ---- of ---- she has ever possessed.
---- is physical, established sequence; intellectual, a condition of intellectual action in order that truth may be
reached; and moral, an imperative which determines the right guidance of our higher life.
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LIBERTY (page 230).
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QUESTIONS.
1. What is freedom? 2. What is liberty in the primary sense? in the widest sense? 3. How do freedom and
liberty compare? 4. How is independence used in distinction from freedom and liberty? 5. Is freedom or