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restrict? 4. How does repress compare with restrain? suppress?
EXAMPLES.
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The English Puritans, ----ed at home, fled for freedom to America.
In no political system is it so necessary to ---- the powers of the government as in a democratic state.
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REVENGE (page 316).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is revenge? 2. How does retaliation compare with revenge? 3. What did vengeance formerly mean,
and what does it now imply? 4. What is a requital? 5. How do avenging and retribution differ from
retaliation, revenge, and vengeance? 6. What difference may be noted between avenging and retribution?
EXAMPLES.
According to the wish of Sulla himself, ... his monument was erected in the Campus Martius, bearing an
inscription composed by himself: "No friend ever did me a kindness, no enemy a wrong, without receiving
full ----."
By the spirit of ----, as we sometimes express it, we generally understand a disposition, not merely to return
suffering for suffering, but to inflict a degree of pain on the person who is supposed to have injured us,
beyond what strict justice requires.
In all great religions we find one God, and in all, personal immortality with ----.
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REVOLUTION (page 317).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential idea of revolution? 2. Does a revolution necessarily involve war? 3. What is anarchy?
insubordination? sedition? revolt? rebellion? 4. How does rebellion differ from revolution? 5. By what class
of persons is insurrection made? mutiny?
EXAMPLES.
----s are not made; they come.
---- to tyrants is obedience to God.
Since government is of God, ---- must be contrary to his will.
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REVOLVE (page 318).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is a body said to roll? to rotate? to revolve? 2. In what sense may the earth be said to revolve? and in
what sense to rotate? 3. What are some of the extended uses of roll? 4. What kind of a word is turn, and what
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is its meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Any bright star close by the pole is seen to ---- in a very small circle whose center is the pole itself.
The sun ----s on an axis in the same direction in which the planets ---- in their orbits.
Human nature can never rest; once in motion it ----s like the stone of Sisyphus every instant when the resisting
force is suspended.
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RIGHT (page 319).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a right? Is it general or special? 2. What is a privilege? an exemption? an immunity? 3. What is a
franchise? a prerogative?
EXAMPLES.
Friendship gives no ---- to make ourselves disagreeable.
All men are created equal, and endowed with certain inalienable ----s.
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RUSTIC (page 321).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what are rural and rustic alike derived? How do the two words agree in general signification? How
are they discriminated in use? 2. What is the meaning of pastoral? of bucolic?
EXAMPLES.
How still the morning of the hallowed day! Mute is the voice of ---- labor, hush'd The plowboy's whistle and
the milkmaid's song.
The ---- arbor which the summit crowned Was woven of shining smilax, trumpet-vine, Clematis, and the wild
white eglantine.
When hunting tribes begin to domesticate animals, they enter usually upon the ---- stage.
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SACRAMENT (page 321).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a religious service in the extended sense? 2. What is a sacrament? 3. What is an observance? an
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