QUESTIONS.
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?
EXAMPLES.
The —— of listening senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
[482] To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
—— no man e'er deserved who sought no more.
Gladly then he mixed
Among those friendly powers, who him received
With joy and ——s loud.
PRAY ([page 281]).
QUESTIONS.
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?