1. What is
harmony?
melody? In what special feature does the one differ from the other? 2. How many parts
are
required for harmony? how many for
melody? 3. What is
unison? 4. What does
music include?
EXAMPLES.
Sweetest ---- Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
----, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory.
Ring out ye crystal spheres And with your ninefold ---- Make up full consort to the angelic ----.
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MEMORY (page 239).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is
memory in the special and in the general sense? 2. What is
remembrance, and how distinguished
from
memory? 3. Is
remembrance voluntary or involuntary? 4. What is
recollection, and what does it involve?
5. What is
reminiscence?
retrospection? How do these two words differ?
EXAMPLES.
---- like a purse, if it be
over-full that it can not shut, all will drop out of it; take heed of a gluttonous curiosity
to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy ---- spoil the digestion thereof.
---- wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
It is a favorite device of eminent men to devote their
old age to writing their ----s, thus quietly living over
again a busy or tumultuous life.
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MERCY (page 239).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is
mercy in the strictest sense? 2. To what class is
grace shown? 3. To what class are
mercy,
forgiveness, and
pardon extended? 4. In what wider significations is
mercy used? 5. What is
clemency?
leniency or
lenity? How do these words compare with
mercy?
EXAMPLES.
How would you be, If He,
which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
And ---- then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
The only protection which the conquered could find was in the moderation, the ----, and the enlarged policy of
the conquerors.
To favor
sin is to discourage virtue; undue ---- to the bad is unkindness to the good.
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METER (page 240).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is
euphony?
How does it differ from meter,
measure, and
rhythm? 2. How are
rhythm and
meter
produced? 3. How does
meter differ from
rhythm? 4. What is a
verse in the strict sense?
In what wider sense
is the word often used?
EXAMPLES.
---- is a very vague and unscientific term. Each nation considers its own language, each tribe its own dialect,
euphonic.
---- may be defined to be a succession of poetical feet arranged in regular order according to certain types
recognized as standards, in verses of a determinate length.
We have three principal domains in which ---- manifests its nature and power--dancing, music, poetry.
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MIND (page 241).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is
mind? How does it differ from
intellect? 2. What does
consciousness include? Is it attended with
distinct thinking and willing? 3. What is the
soul? 4. From what is
spirit used in special contradistinction?
How does it differ from
soul? 5. What is Paley's
definition of instinct? 6. In what contrasted meanings is the
word
sense employed? 7. What is
thought?
EXAMPLES.
A great ---- will be strong to live, as well as to think.
God is a ----: and they that worship him must worship him in ---- and in truth.
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MINUTE (page 242).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of
minute? 2. When is a thing said to be
comminuted? 3. How does
fine differ from
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