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ordinance? 4. How do sacrament and ordinance differ? 5. What is a rite?
EXAMPLES.
Religion will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ----s.
Nothing tends more to unite men's hearts than joining together in the same prayers and ----s.
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SALE (page 323).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is change or exchange? 2. What is barter? sale? 3. What is a bargain in the strict sense? 4. What is
trade in the broad and in the limited sense?
EXAMPLES.
Honor sits smiling at the ---- of truth.
I'll give thrice as much land to any well-deserving friend, But in the way of ----, mark ye me, I'll cavil on the
ninth part of a hair.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made To coin a penny in the way of ----.
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SAMPLE (page 323).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a sample? a specimen? 2. How do sample and specimen compare as indications of the quality of
that which they respectively represent?
EXAMPLES.
There is, therefore, in this country, an implied warranty that the goods correspond to the ----.
Curzola is a perfect ---- of a Venetian town.
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SCHOLAR (page 324).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary sense of scholar? the derived sense? 2. What does pupil signify? How is it technically
used in educational work? 3. In what sense is student employed?
EXAMPLES.
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The accent or turn of expression of a single sentence will at once mark a ----.
The State of New York supplies all needed text-books free of charge to the ----s in the public schools.
The ----s in American colleges have taken up athletics with intense enthusiasm.
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SCIENCE (page 325).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does science compare with knowledge? 2. How does art compare with science? 3. What two senses of
art must be discriminated from each other? 4. In which sense is art a system of rules? 5. In which sense does
art transcend rule?
EXAMPLES.
Beethoven took his ---- as seriously as a saint and martyr takes his religion.
Modern ---- may be regarded as one vast miracle, whether we view it in relation to the Almighty Being, by
whom its objects and its laws were formed, or to the feeble intellect of man, by which its depths have been
sounded, and its mysteries explored.
Printing has been aptly termed the ---- preservative of all other ----s.
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SECURITY (page 326).
QUESTIONS.
1. Of what kind of value or property must an earnest consist? 2. How do pledge and security differ from
earnest? 3. How does security differ from pledge? 4. What is bail? gage?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- for a national or state debt is the honesty of its people.
The surest ---- of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
And for an ---- of a greater honor, He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor.
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SENSATION (page 328).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a sensation? a perception? 2. How does an emotion differ from a sensation? 3. How does the
popular term feeling compare with sensation and emotion? 4. What is a sense?
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But ----, in the technical and limited sense of the term, is appropriated to the knowledge of material objects,
and of the external world. This knowledge is gained or acquired by means of the ----s, and hence, to be more
exact, we call it sensible ----, or, more briefly, sense ----.
----s sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
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SENSIBILITY (page 328).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is sensibility in the philosophical sense? in popular use? 2. What does sensitiveness denote? 3. What
is