Bismarck was the one great figure of all Europe, with more —— for good or evil than any other human being possessed at that time.
The soul, in its highest sense, is a vast —— for God.
I reckon it is an oversight in a great body of metaphysicians that they have been afraid to ascribe our apprehensions of —— to intuition. In consequence of this neglect, some never get the idea of ——, but merely of succession, within the bare limits of experience.
1. What is praise? By how many is it given, and how is it expressed? 2. What is applause? by how many given? and how expressed? 3. What is acclamation? How does it differ from applause? 4. How does approbation differ from praise? 5. What does approval add to the meaning of praise? 6. How does compliment compare with praise? 7. What is flattery?
—— no man e'er deserved who sought no more.
1. What is it to pray in the religious sense? 2. In what lighter and more familiar sense may pray be used? Is this latter use now common?
Hesiod exhorted the husbandman to —— for a harvest, but to do so with his hand upon the plow.
I kneel, and then —— her blessing.
1. To what is the term uncertain applied? 2. What did precarious originally signify? How is it now used, and how does it differ from uncertain?
Life seems to be —— in proportion to its value.
1. What is a precedent? 2. How does case fall short of the meaning of precedent? 3. What is an obiter dictum? How does it differ from a precedent?
Let us consider the reason of the ——, for nothing is law that is not reason.
1. What is predestination? 2. How does fate differ from predestination? 3. What does necessity signify in the philosophical sense? 4. What is foreknowledge? Does it involve foreordination or predestination?
For —— has wove the thread of life with pain.
All high truth is the union of two contradictories. Thus —— and free-will are opposites; and the truth does not lie between these two, but in a higher reconciling truth which leaves both true.
1. What is a presumption? On what is it founded? 2. On what are prejudice and prepossession based? How do these two words differ from each other?
When the judgment's weak, the —— is strong.
The —— is always in favor of what exists.
His fine features, manly form, and perfect manners awakened an instant —— in his favor.
1. What is a pretense? How does it differ from a pretext? 2. What is a ruse?
The claim of a stronger nation to protect a weaker has commonly been but a —— for conquest.
It is not poverty so much as —— that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.
The independent English nobility conspired to make an insurrection, and to support the prince's ——s.
1. What is the original meaning of prevent? 2. What word is now commonly used in that sense? 3. What is the meaning of obviate? preclude? 4. How is prevent at present used?
The contrary supposition is obviously ——.
When the Siberian Pacific Railway is finished, what is there to —— Russia from annexing nearly the whole of China?
There appears to be no way to —— the difficulty.
1. What does antecedent denote? 2. How does preceding differ from antecedent and previous? 3. How is anterior commonly used? prior? 4. Of what is former used? What does former always imply?
These matters have been fully explained in —— chapters of this work.
The reader will be helped to an understanding of this process by a careful study of the diagram on the —— page.
In —— times many things were attributed to witchcraft that now have a scientific explanation.
1. What is the cost of an article? the price? 2. How do cost and price ordinarily differ? 3. In what exceptional case may cost and price agree? 4. What does price always imply? 5. What is the meaning of value? How does market value differ from intrinsic value? 6. How does value differ from worth? 7. To what are charge and expense ordinarily applied?
—— is the life-giving power of anything; ——, the quantity of labor required to produce it; ——, the quantity of labor which its possessor will take in exchange for it.
No man can permanently do business by making the —— of his goods the same as their —— to him, however such a method may help him momentarily in an emergency.
1. What is pride? haughtiness? arrogance? disdain? How do these qualities compare with pride? 2. What does superciliousness imply according to its etymology? 3. How do pride and vanity differ? 4. What difference is noted between self-conceit and conceit? 5. How do self-respect and self-esteem compare with each other and with the other words of the group?
—— may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
There is nothing —— can so little bear with as —— itself.
—— is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness is under the love which it can not return.
1. What is the derivation and signification of aboriginal? autochthonic? primeval? 2. What do prime and primary denote? What special sense has primary as in reference to a school? 3. How is primordial used? 4. What does primitive suggest, as in the expressions, the primitive church, primitive simplicity? 5. What is pristine? 6. How do native and indigenous compare?
The —— inhabitants of America are long since extinct, for even the races whom the white men conquered had themselves supplanted an earlier race.
All the later ages have wondered at and admired the whole-souled consecration of the —— church.
1. What are returns or receipts? 2. What is profit in the commercial sense? What in the intellectual and moral sense? 3. What is utility? 4. What does advantage[485] originally signify? Does it now necessarily imply having or gaining superiority to another person, or securing anything at another's expense? 5. What is gain? benefit? emolument? 6. To what does expediency especially refer?
Silence has many ——s.
No man can read with —— that which he can not learn to read with pleasure.
Godliness with contentment is great ——.
1. What is progress? 2. What do attainment, proficiency, and development imply? 3. What is advance? How does it differ from progress?
What is thy —— compared with an Alexander's, a Mahomet's, a Napoleon's?
Human —— consists in a continual increase in the number of those who, ceasing to live by the animal life alone and to feel the pleasures of sense only, come to participate in the intellectual life also.
1. What is it to prohibit? 2. How does forbid compare with prohibit? 3. How does prohibit compare with prevent?
The laws of England, from the early Plantagenets, sternly —— the conversion of malt into alcohol, excepting a small portion for medicinal purposes.
Human law must —— many things that human administration of law can not absolutely ——; is not this true also of the divine government?
1. What is it to promote? 2. To what does promote apply? To persons or things, and in what way?
The outlawed pirate of one year was —— the next to be a governor and his country's representative.
1. What did atonement originally denote? What is its present theological and popular sense? 2. What does expiation signify? propitiation? satisfaction?
—— has respect to the bearing which satisfaction has upon sin or the sinner. —— has respect to the effect of satisfaction in removing the judicial displeasure of God.
When a man has been guilty of any sin or folly, I think the best —— he can make is to warn others not to fall into the like.
Redemption implies the complete deliverance from the penalty, power, and all the consequences of sin; —— is used in the sense of the sacrificial work, whereby the redemption from the condemning power of the law was insured.
1. What does an offer or proposal do? 2. What does a proposition set forth? 3. For what is the proposition designed? the proposal? 4. In what way does proposition come to have nearly the sense of proposal in certain uses? 5. What is a bid? 6. What does an overture accomplish? In what special application is the word commonly used?
Garrison emphatically declared, "I can not listen to any —— for a gradual abolition of wickedness."
The theme in confirmation must always admit of being expressed in a logical ——, with subject, predicate, and copula.
1. How does propose in its most frequent use differ from purpose? 2. How is propose used so as to be nearly equivalent to purpose? What important difference appears in this latter use?
I know, indeed, the evil of that I ——, but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
Man ——s, but God disposes.
1. What is it to protract? 2. What is the significance of defer and delay, and how do these words differ in usage from protract? 3. How does elongate differ from protract? 4. Is protract ordinarily favorable or unfavorable in sense? 5. Is continue favorable or unfavorable?[487]
Burton, a hypochondriac, wrote the "Anatomy of Melancholy," that marvel of learning, and —— his life to the age of sixty-four.
1. In what do the proverb and the adage agree? In what respects do they differ? 2. What is an apothegm? an aphorism? How do these two words differ? 3. What is a dictum? a saying? 4. What is a precept? How does it differ from a motto or maxim? 5. How do motto and maxim differ from each other?
Books, like ——s, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
1. What is the definition of prudence? 2. How does providence differ from prudence? 3. How does care compare with prudence and providence? 4. How is frugality related to prudence? 5. How do foresight and forethought compare with each other, and both with providence?
With a —— unknown in other parts of Scotland, the peasantry have in most places planted orchards around their cottages.
1. From what language is purchase derived? 2. From what is buy derived? 3. How do buy and purchase agree in meaning? What single definition would answer for either? 4. How do buy and purchase differ in use? Give instances.
1. What does pure signify? 2. In what sense are material substances said to be pure? 3. What does pure denote in moral and religious use? 4. How does pure compare with innocent? with virtuous?
Water from melted snow is ——r than rain-water, as it descends through the air in a solid form, incapable of absorbing atmospheric gases.
In every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a —— offering, saith the Lord of hosts.
1. What is the meaning of odd? singular? Are odd and singular precise equivalents? 2. When is a thing called strange? 3. What is the primary meaning of peculiar? With what implication is it now commonly used? 4. What is the meaning of eccentric? How does it differ in use from odd or queer? 5. How does erratic compare with eccentric? 6. What is the primary meaning of queer? its common meaning? 7. What is the significance of quaint? grotesque?
A ——, shy man was this pastor—a sort of living mummy, dried up and bleached by Icelandic snows.
In setting a hen, says Grose, the good women hold it an indispensable rule to put an —— number of eggs.
Only a man of undoubted genius can afford to be ——.
The —— architecture of these medieval towns has a strange fascination.
1. What is it to accelerate? to despatch? 2. What does the verb speed signify? hasten? hurry? What does hurry suggest in addition to the meaning of hasten?
The motion of a falling body is continually ——ed.
The pulsations of the heart are ——ed by exertion.
1. How does cite differ from quote? 2. What is it to paraphrase? to plagiarize?[489]
A great man —— bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
The Devil can —— Scripture for his purpose.
To appropriate others' thoughts or words mechanically and without credit is to ——.
1. To what does racy in the first instance refer? pungent? 2. How does piquant differ from pungent? 3. How are these words and the word spicy used in reference to literary products?
Pure mother English, —— and fresh with idiomatic graces.
The atmosphere was strangely impregnated with the —— odor of burning peat.
The spruce, the cedar, and the juniper, with their balsamic breath, filled the air with a —— fragrance.
1. What is the primary meaning of radical? 2. What contrasted senses are derived from this primary meaning?
Timidity is a —— defect in a reformer.
Social and political leaders look to vested interests, and hence are inclined to regard all —— measures as ——.
1. What is the meaning of unique? Can any one of a number of things of the same kind be unique? 2. What is the primary meaning of rare? What added sense is often blended with this primary meaning? 3. Is extraordinary favorable or unfavorable in meaning?
Nothing is so —— as time.
That which gives to the Jews their —— position among the nations is what we are accustomed to regard as their sacred history.
1. What is it to reach in the sense here considered? 2. What is it to arrive? 3. What does attain add to the meaning of arrive? What does gain add?[490]
It is only in this way that we can hope to —— at truth.
1. From what is real derived? What does it mean? 2. From what is the real distinguished? 3. To what is actual opposed? 4. What shades of difference may be pointed out between the four words actual, real, developed, and positive?
In —— life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
If there was any trouble, —— or impending, affecting those she had served, her place was with them.
This was regarded as proof —— of conspiracy.
1. What is it to reason about a matter? 2. From what is argue derived, and what does it mean? 3. What is it to demonstrate? to prove? How do these two words agree and differ?
There are two ways of reaching truth: by ——ing it out and by feeling it out.
A matter of fact may be ——ed by adequate evidence; only a mathematical proposition can be ——ed.
1. How does cause differ from reason in the strict sense of each of the two words? 2. How is reason often used so as to be a partial equivalent of cause?
No one is at liberty to speak ill of another without a justifiable ——, even tho he knows he is speaking truth.
I am not only witty myself, but the —— that wit is in other men.
Necessity is the —— of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
1. What do argumentation and debate ordinarily imply? 2. How does reasoning differ from both the above words in this respect? 3. To what kind of reasoning were argument and argumentation formerly restricted? How widely are the words now applied? 4. How do argument and argumentation compare with reasoning as regards logical form?
All ——, Inductive or Deductive, is a reaching of the unknown through the known; and where nothing unknown is reached there is no ——.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle ——, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but never know how to live with men.
1. To what does civilization apply, and what does it denote? 2. What is refinement? 3. What is the primary meaning of cultivation? the derived meaning? 4. By what word is cultivation now largely superseded? 5. What does culture denote?
What is ——? It is the humanization of man in society, the satisfaction for him in society of the true law of human nature.
Giving up wrong pleasure is not self-sacrifice, but self-——.
This refined taste is the consequence of education and habit; we are born only with a capacity of entertaining this ——.
1. What is to be said of the controversy regarding the formation and use of the word reliable? 2. What do trusty and trustworthy denote? 3. How does reliable compare with these words? 4. What meaning may reliable convey that trusty and trustworthy would not?
The first voyage to America, of which we have any perfectly —— account, was performed by the Norsemen.
1. What is the original sense of piety? the derived sense? 2. What is religion?[492] What does it include? 3. What is worship? devotion? 4. What is morality? godliness? holiness? 5. How is theology related to religion?
—— is man's belief in a being or beings, mightier than himself and inaccessible to his senses, but not indifferent to his sentiments and actions, with the feelings and practises which flow from such belief.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make —— impossible.
Systematic —— may be defined as the substance of the Christian faith in a scientific form.
1. To what are rend and tear usually applied? Which is the stronger word? 2. In what connection is rive used, and in what sense? 3. What does lacerate signify? 4. How does mangle compare with lacerate? 5. What do burst and rupture signify? Which is the stronger word? When is a steam-boiler said to be ruptured? 6. What does rip signify?
Storms do not —— the sail that is furled.
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow —— a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
And now a bubble ——s, and now a world.
The first blood shed in the revolutionary struggle; a mere drop in amount, but a deluge in its effects, ——ing the colonies forever from the mother country.
1. From what is renounce derived, and in what sense used? recant? retract? 2. What is it to discard? 3. How does revoke compare with recall in original meaning and in present use? 4. What is the derivation and the distinctive meaning of abjure? 5. In what sense is repudiate used?
On his knees, with his hand on the Bible, Galileo was compelled to —— and curse the doctrine of the movement of the earth.
He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, —— earth to forfeit heaven.
He had no spiritual adviser, no human comforter, and was entirely in the hands of those who were determined that he should —— or die.
1. What is regret? 2. What does penitence add to regret? 3. How does repentance surpass the meaning of penitence, regret, sorrow, etc.? 4. What is compunction?[493] contrition? 5. What is remorse, and how does it compare with repentance?
1. Are blame, censure, and disapproval spoken or silent? 2. Are comment, criticism, rebuke, reflection, reprehension, and reproof expressed or not? 3. How of admonition and animadversion? 4. Are comment and criticism favorable or unfavorable? Do they imply superiority on the part of commentator or critic? 5. Do reflection and reprehension imply such superiority? How are these two words discriminated? 6. What does rebuke literally signify? To what kind of person is a rebuke administered? 7. To what kind of person is reproof administered? 8. What do rebuke and reproof imply on the part of him who administers them? 9. What is animadversion? admonition?