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PROGRESS (page 289).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _progress_? 2. What do _attainment_, _proficiency_, and _development_ imply? 3. What is _advance_? How does it differ from _progress_?

EXAMPLES.

What is thy ---- compared with an Alexander's, a Mahomet's, a Napoleon's?

And dreams in their ---- have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.

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 partic.i.p.ate in the intellectual life also.

PROHIBIT (page 290).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _prohibit_? 2. How does _forbid_ compare with _prohibit_? 3. How does _prohibit_ compare with _prevent_?

EXAMPLES.

Tho much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind ---- to crave.

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?

PROMOTE (page 291).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _promote_? 2. To what does _promote_ apply? To persons or things, and in what way?

EXAMPLES.

The outlawed pirate of one year was ---- the next to be a governor and his country's representative.

The imperial ensign, which full high ----ed, Shone like a meteor streaming in the wind.

PROPITIATION (page 291).

QUESTIONS.

1. What did _atonement_ originally denote? What is its present theological and popular sense? 2. What does _expiation_ signify?

_propitiation_? _satisfaction_?

EXAMPLES.

---- 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 G.o.d.

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.

PROPOSAL (page 291).

QUESTIONS.

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?

EXAMPLES.

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.

PROPOSE (page 292).

QUESTIONS.

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?

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