1. Do truth and verity apply to thought and speech or to persons? 2. To what does veracity apply? truthfulness? 3. Into what two classes may the words in this group of synonyms be divided, and what words will be found in each class?
EXAMPLES.
On a certain confidence in the —— of mankind is founded so much of the knowledge on which we constantly depend, that, without it, the whole system of human things would go into confusion.
If all the world and love were young,
And —— in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.
VIRTUE ([page 370]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the prominent idea in virtue? 2. How does goodness differ from virtue? 3. Of what relations are honesty and probity used? 4. How is honesty used in a sense higher than the commercial? 5. What, in the full sense, is integrity? 6. What is honor? 7. What is purity? duty? 8. What do rectitude and righteousness denote? 9. To what does uprightness especially refer? 10. What is virtuousness?
EXAMPLES.
—— is the fruit of exertion; it supposes conquest of temptation.