MERCY ([page 239]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is mercy in the strictest sense? 2. To what class is grace shown? 3. To what class are mercy, forgiveness, and pardon extended? 4. In what wider significations is mercy used? 5. What is clemency? leniency or lenity? How do these words compare with mercy?
EXAMPLES.
How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
And —— then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.
The only protection which the conquered could find was in the moderation, the ——, and the enlarged policy of the conquerors.
To favor sin is to discourage virtue; undue —— to the bad is unkindness to the good.