EXAMPLES.
They please, are pleas'd; they give to get ——,
Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
The loss of conscience or honor is one that can not be ——.
ETERNAL ([page 157]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of eternal in the fullest sense? 2. To what being, in that sense, may it be applied? 3. In what does everlasting fall short of the meaning of eternal? 4. How does endless agree with and differ from everlasting? 5. In what inferior senses are everlasting and interminable used? 6. Is eternal, in good speech or writing, ever brought down to such inferior use?
EXAMPLES.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
The —— years of God are hers.
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from ——.