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He who is hindered does not wholly cease from action; but he who is prevented cannot advance a step. The inspection of passports frequently hinders travellers on the continent from proceeding as quickly as they wish. He who would attempt to travel on the continent without a passport, would be prevented by the custom-house officers.

[Car. wise men ne'er wail their present woes But presently prevent the ways to wail.

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I should have begun my letter yesterday, but I was

by my

brothers, who insisted on my accompanying them in their afternoon walk. I sat down this morning with the full determination to write to you, but I have been by so many circumstances, that I am afraid I shall never

finish this letter.

They now attempted to force their way through the entrance, but were by those within, who made a desperate sally from the gate, and successfully repulsed the assailants.

I was

from calling on you yesterday by several visiters who

came in when I was on the point of setting off. The delicate state of his health has

and

be expected.

his education considerably,

his making that advancement which, in ordinary cases, would

Had not the workmen been

ing last week.

they would have finished the build

It is much easier to keep ourselves void of resentment than to restrain it

from excess when it has gained admission. To use the illustration of an the beginnings of some things whose pro

excellent author, we can

gress afterwards we cannot

Barbarous-Inhuman.

Barbarous and inhuman are both higher degrees of cruel; but barbarity expresses a positive love of cruelty, whilst inhumanity denotes the cruelty resulting from a want of the natural feelings of kindness and tenderness which are common to human beings. A barbarous man takes pleasure in inflicting pain; an inhuman man is heedless of the pain he gives others. Barbarity delights in cruelty. Many of the Roman emperors committed the most atrocious barbarities. Inhumanity has no feeling for the miseries of others. The slave-trade is an inhuman traffic.

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They come and onward travel without dread,

Chanting in barbarous ears a tuneful prayer

Sung for themselves, and those whom they would free!

WORDSWORTH. 'Eccles. Sonnets.']

Exercise.

"By their

knew him."

usage, he died in a few days, to the grief of all that

"A just war may be prosecuted in a very unjust manner; by perfidious

breaches of our word, by

cruelties, and by assassinations."

"Each social feeling fell,

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-ly assassinated in his moth

"The unfortunate young prince was er's arms."

"Among the

-s he exercised during his progress, none was more horrible than the massacre of the Alexandrians; he led the people out of their city, surrounded them with his soldiers, and ordered them all to be cut down."

"The more these praises were enlarged, the more

ishment, and the sufferer more innocent."

"Relentless love the cruel mother led

The blood of her unhappy babes to shed;

Love lent the sword, the mother struck the blow,

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"Whether it was that her son had instigated it, or that she had herself given some offence, or from the mere wantonness of gave orders for the execution of the Countess of Salisbury."

Defective-Faulty.

That is defective which is wanting in some respect. That is faulty which has what it ought not to have. What is defective requires something to be supplied; what is faulty requires something to be corrected. A book which wants a leaf is defective; a book containing a leaf which belongs to another book is faulty. The same distinction is to be made between the nouns defect and fault. The former implies the absence of something right; the latter, the presence of something wrong.

[Bur. And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges, Defective in their natures, grow to wildness;

Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children,

Have lost, or do not learn, for want of time,

The sciences that should become our country.

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The system was found to be

in many points: the arrangement was so confused, that it not unfrequently puzzled rather than enlightened

the inquirer; and, on several questions connected with the subject, it gave no information whatever.

It was not until several games had been played, that the cards were found to be ; a discovery made by two of the players throwing down the same card simultaneously; it was consequently agreed that all the money won during the preceding part of the evening should be restored to its original owners.

The book was very badly printed, and so

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that there was scarcely

a page in which several emendations were not required.

In order to render the work useful, it was found necessary to correct its and supply its

It is perhaps better that a work should be

than

for

will often happen in the haste of composition; whereas may generally be traced either to the author's ignorance or imperfect knowledge.

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"The low race of men take a secret pleasure in finding an eminent character levelled to their condition by a report of its and keep themselves in countenance, though they are excelled in a thousand virtues, if they believe that they have in common with a great person any

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He who exceeds, goes beyond-he who is immoderate, does not keep within bounds. Consequently the distinction between excessive and immoderate is as positive and negative. They who do not restrain their appetites within the bounds prescribed by nature, eat immoderately; they who load the stomach to satiety, eat to excess. An immoderate indulgence in the pleasures of the table produces uneasiness; excessive indulgence in the same pleasures puts us in danger of a surfeit, or apoplexy. Immoderate is opposed to temperate; excessive to defective. Excessive is frequently used in a favorable sense; immoderate, always in a bad sense.

[Laf. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. All's Well, &c., i. 1.

Claud. As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns
All patience

Meas. for Meas., i. 3.

P. L., vi. 463.]

Exercise.

Who knows not the languor that attends every

pleasure?

indulgence in

"One of the first objects of wish to every one is to maintain a proper place and rank in society: this, among the vain and ambitious, is always the favourite aim. With them it arises to expectations founded on their supposed talents and imagined merits."

"A man must be

ly stupid as well as uncharitable, who believes

there is no virtue but on his own side."

"One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted by passions, or distracted with

cares."

"If panicum be laid below and about the bottom of a root, it will cause the root to grow to an

bigness."

eating takes away sound sleep;

gestive functions.

eating disorders the di

"Moderation is a virtue of no small importance to those who find

in every thing to be an evil."

"It is wisely ordered in our present state that joy and fear, hope and grief, should act alternately as checks and balances upon each other, in order to prevent an in any of them."

"His death was caused by an

use of opiates."

SECTION V.

MISCELLANEOUS SYNONYMES.

THERE are many cases in which it is extremely difficult to discover any principle by which the differences of words can be accounted for. Though, as we have already shewn, it is very possible to form, to a certain extent, a classification of differences, by referring them, in different cases, to a distinct principle; there are many pairs of words whose difference does not appear to depend on any uniformly directing principle, but seems the result of a mere caprice of language. These cases baffle all attempts at classifying, and we must, therefore, be content to consider them under the head of "Miscellaneous." Here it will be found that a different cause operates in each single pair, so that we shall here learn nothing more than the explanation of the difference in each individual case, and this explanation will suggest no certain rule

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