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Spell unhappy. Spell unhappily.

changed?

What letter is

What figure is here

.Despise, look upon as things beneath them.

Shine, to appear to advantage.

used?

What other word in the same sentence is used meta

phorically?

-Discourse, speech, sermon, conversation?

Stupid even to ridicule, so stupid as even to be ridiculed.

-Large, great, much, extensive, bulky, abundant. -Strong, vigorous, mighty, powerful, retentive, violent, intoxicating.

.Denominate, name, give name to, render worthy to
be called.

.Truly derived from what? Spell the adjective due.
Spell duly.

Spell sense, genius, whole, very, scholar, discoveries.
Euclid, author of a celebrated treatise on geometry.
.Geometrician, jè-om-è-trish'ån, one skilled in geome-
try.

-Divinity, deity, theology, truths and precepts of the
Bible.

-Weak, feeble, not strong, infirm, childish, void of
judgment.

Truths, trooths.. This word does not follow the analogy of path, paths, bath, baths.

-.Animate, give life to, encourage, possessing animal life.

Industry, in'důs-trè, diligence, assiduity, efforts.

.Hover, hův'ur. What figure is this? To what is a person here compared ?

.Surface, superficies, outside, that part which meets the

eye.

.Penetrate, go, enter, pierce, make way.

Spell especially, glimpse, superficial, prejudices,
wrong.

-Profession, employment, declaration, public avowal.
-Indulge, gratify, favor, allow, grant.

First, fürst. Superficial, slight, extending only to the
surface.

What two adjectives, in adding ly, drop final e.?

prejudices, give it a wrong turn and ill habit of thinking, and make much work for retraction.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account, what new ideas, what new proposition or truth, you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge; and let no day, if possible, pass away without some intellectual gain. Such a course, well pursued, must certainly advance us in useful knowledge. It is a wise proverb among the learned, borrowed from the lips and practice of a celebrated painter, "Let no day pass without one line at least ;" and it was a sacred rule among the Pythagoreans, that they should every evening thrice run over the actions and affairs of the day, and examine what their conduct had been, what they had done, or what they had neglected; and they assured their pupils, that by this method, they would make a noble progress in the path of virtue.

Nor let soft slumber close your eyes,
Before you've recollected thrice
The train of actions through the day:
Where have my feet chose out the way?
What have I learn'd, where'er I've been,
From all I've heard, from all I've seen?
What know I more, that's worth the knowing?
What have I done, that's worth the doing?
What have I sought that I should shun?
What duty have I left undone?

Or into what new follies run?

These self-inquiries are the road,
That leads to virtue and to God.

LESSON IV.

The same.-CONCLUDED.

Maintain a constant watch against a dogmatical spirit. Fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence; till you have turned the proposition on all sides, and searched the matter through and through, so that you cannot be mistaken. And even

Spell once, pursued, certainly, examine, recollected. -Turn, act of turning, winding way, change, convenience, bias.

Retraction, taking back, confessing an error, recantation.

Confirmation, act of establishing, evidence, additional proof.

-Advance, help forward, promote, go forward, propose, improvement.

Proverb, adage, a common saying, a sententious maxim.

-Borrowed, taken on credit, derived, copied, obtained for temporary use.

-.Celebrated, famous, renowned, performed, observed. -Line, mark, string, verse, limit, stroke or touch of the pencil.

.Pythagoreans, pè-thåg-ò-rè'ânz, followers or disciples of Pythagoras, an ancient philosopher.

-Run over, overflow, 7, pass over swiftly, review, call to

mind.

-Neglected, treated with indifference, left undone. Progress, prog'grês. Path, used metaphorically for habits or practice.

Soft slumber, gentle sleep.

You've, where'er; why is the apostrophe used? Why are the words contracted?

-Train, retinue, process, persons or things following

one another.

Three lines rhyming together, are called what? Two lines thus rhyming, are called what? The mark on the margin against those three lines, is called what? Why is it used here ?

Been, bin. Spirit, spir'it. Sacred, sa'kred.

Dogmatical, authoritative, magisterial, positive, dictatorial.

-Spirit, immaterial substance, soul, angel, demon, ardor, disposition.

-Ground, earth, foundation, reason, fundamental cause. Spell sure, too, believe, enough, withhold, afraid. -Turned, whirled, revolved, considered, examined.

where you may think you have full grounds of assurance, be not too early, nor too frequent, in expressing this assurance in a peremptory and positive manner. A dogmatical spirit has many inconveniences attending it. It stops the ear against all further reasoning, and shuts up the mind from all further knowledge on the subject. If you have resolutely fixed your opinion, though it be upon slight and insufficient grounds, yet you will stand determined to renounce the strongest reason brought for the contrary opinion, and grow obstinate against the force of the clearest argument. A dogmatical spirit naturally leads to arrogance, and gives a man haughty and assuming airs in conversation. It also inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. He grows angry that they do not see all his opinions in the same light that he does. And he is tempted to disdain them as men of a low and dark understanding, because they will not believe what he does.

Though caution and slow assent will guard you against frequent mistakes and retractions, yet you should get humility and courage enough to retract any mistake and confess an error. Frequent changes are tokens of levity in our first determinations; yet you should never be too proud to change your opinion. I confess it is better not to judge than to judge falsely, and it is wiser to withhold our assent till we see complete evidence; but if we have too suddenly given our assent, as the wisest man does sometimes-if we have professed what we find afterwards to be false, we should never be ashamed nor afraid to renounce a mistake.

He that would learn to pass a just sentence on persons and things, must take heed of a fanciful temper of mind and a humorous conduct in his affairs. A humorist is one, that is greatly pleased, or greatly displeased, with little things, who sets his heart much upon matters of very small importance, and who has his will determined and his actions directed every day by trifles. Where this practice is allowed, it will insensibly warp the judgment to pronounce little things great. It will incline you to pass an unjust value on almost every thing that occurs; and every step you take in this path, is just so far out of the way to wisdom.

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-.Full, sufficient, adequate, strong.

Spell assurance, early, frequent, positive.

.Peremptory, perrem-tur-e, or per-ẻm to.rẻ ; dogmati-
cal, absolute.

.Inconveniences, disadvantages, evils, hindrances.
Spell knowledge, opinion, slight, insufficient.
Renounce, reject, discard, disregard, disown.
Change arrogance into an adjective, into an adverb,

into a verb.

Spell haughty, force, neighbors, spirit.

.Airs, appearances, demeanor, carriage, behavior.
.Censorious, apt to censure, disposed to find fault.
.Disdain, despise, contemn, scorn.

-Guard, defend, protect, afford security.

Humility, lowliness of mind, modesty, freedom from pride.

Retract, take back, unsay, recant.

Tokens, indications, signs, memorials of friendship,
Levity, lightness, inconstancy, unsteadiness.

Spell against, courage, enough, error.

.Complete, full, perfect, finished, having no part or appendage wanting.

.Sometimes, sum'timz, occasionally.

.Professed, said, declared, publicly expressed as our

opinion.

False, untrue, incorrect.

What adverb is formed

from it? What noun? What verb?

Afraid, terrified. Does the sense require, driven by
fear to renounce ? or prevented by fear from re-
nouncing?

Learn, lern, acquire the power, become competent.
Humorist: What is a humorist?

Insensibly warp, imperceptibly turn aside or incline.
-Occurs, meets, happens, takes place, comes to pass,
comes into the mind.

-Temper, constitution, disposition, moderation.
Every step you take in this path, every progression
in this course of conduct.

-Way, method of acting, direction, means, situation
where a thing may probably be found.

Of what is insensibly compounded? From what is it derived? Change it into an adjective—into a noun.