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PART, n. (page 264).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a part? 2. What is a fragment? a piece? 3. What do division and fraction signify? 4. What is a
portion? 5. What is a share? an instalment? a particle? 6. What do component, constituent, ingredient, and
element signify? How do they differ from one another? 7. What is a subdivision?
EXAMPLES.
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The best ---- of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every ---- ... Can not but by annihilating die.
Many cheap houses were built to be sold by ----s.
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PARTICLE (page 264).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a particle? 2. What does atom etymologically signify? What is its meaning in present scientific
use? 3. What is a molecule, and of what is it regarded as composed? 4. What is an element in chemistry?
EXAMPLES.
Lucretius held that the universe originated from a fortuitous concourse of ----s.
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of ----s, The wreck of matter and the crush of
worlds.
Many aquatic animals, whose food consists of small ---- diffused through the water, have an apparatus for
creating currents so as to bring such ---- within their reach.
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PATIENCE (page 265).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is patience? 2. What is endurance? 3. How does patience compare with submission and endurance?
4. To what are submission and resignation ordinarily applied? 5. What is forbearance? How does it compare
with patience?
EXAMPLES.
With ---- bear the lot to thee assigned, Nor think it chance, nor murmur at the load, For know what man calls
Fortune is from God.
There is, however, a limit at which ---- ceases to be a virtue.
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PAY (page 266).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is pay? compensation? remuneration? recompense? 2. What is an allowance? 3. What are wages?
earnings? 4. What is hire? what does it imply? 5. For what is salary paid? How does it differ from wages? 6.
What is a fee, and for what given?
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EXAMPLES.
I am not aware that ----, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul.
Our praises are our ----.
Carey, in early life, was a country minister with a small ----.
Laborers are remunerated by ----, and officials by ----.
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PEOPLE (page 266).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a community? a commonwealth? 2. What is a people? a race? 3. What is a state? a nation? 4. What
does population signify? tribe?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- may let a king fall, and still remain a ----, but if a king let his ---- slip from him, he is no longer a king.
Questions of ---- have played a great part in the politics and wars of the latter half of the nineteenth century,
the Germanic ----, the Slavonic ----, the Italian, and the Greek ----s struggling to assert their unity.
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PERCEIVE (page 267).
QUESTIONS.
1. What class of things do we perceive? 2. How does apprehend differ in scope from perceive? 3. What does
conceive signify? 4. How does comprehend compare with apprehend? with conceive?
EXAMPLES.
We may ---- the tokens of the divine agency without being able to ---- or ---- the divine Being.
... Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt ---- that thou wast blind before.
O horror! horror! horror! Tongue nor heart Can not ---- nor name thee!
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PERFECT (page 268).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is perfect in the fullest and highest sense? 2. What is absolute in the fullest sense? 3. What is perfect
in the limited sense, and in popular language?
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EXAMPLES.
We have the idea of a Being infinitely ----, and from this Descartes reasoned that such a being really exists.
'Shall remain'! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you His ---- 'shall'?
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PERMANENT (page 269).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is durable derived? to what class of substances is it applied? 2. What is permanent, and in what
connections used? 3. How does enduring compare with durable? with permanent?
EXAMPLES.
My heart is wax, molded as she pleases, but ---- as marble to retain.
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not ----, sweet, not ----, The perfume and suppliance of a
minute.
For her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for ---- clothing.
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PERMISSION (page 269).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is authority? 2. What is permission? 3. How does permission compare with allowance? 4. What is a
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