Commotion, excited commingling action. DISTINCTION, founded on the difference between simple and complex materials. DISCRIMINATION: The agitation and violence of the speaker, excited a sympathetic commotion in his audience." Work, Labor. DEFINITION: Work, active exertion; Labor, continuous exertion. DISTINCTION, founded on the difference between occasional and habitual action. DISCRIMINATION: “Work, in moderation, is a pleasing form of exercise; labor, to the weak, becomes wearisome toil." Employment, Occupation. DEFINITION: Employment, specific action; Occupa tion, continuous specific action. DISTINCTION, founded on the difference between occasional and habitual exertion. DISCRIMINATION: "The man found employment at occasional jobs, but still wished for a more regular mode of occupation." Vocation, Calling. DEFINITION: Vocation, accustomed occupation; Calling, designated industrial occupation. DISTINCTION, founded on the difference of general and particular. DISCRIMINATION: "Men who attempt to live without a vocation, often fall victims to the ennui of indolence or the seductions of vice. Better to toil in the humblest calling, than stagnate in inactivity." Pursuit, Profession. DEFINITION: Pursuit, habitual occupation; Profession, occupation followed by a body of licensed members. DISTINCTION, founded on the difference of general and particular. DISCRIMINATION: "Many members of the learned professions find time for the cultivation of science, literature, or art, or for engaging in some other favorite pursuit.” PARURENT OF INSTRUCTION, Bisurat LibrarEXERCISES ON WORDS. SIEBRA COURTU pplication, Diligence. STATE OF PREFINITION Application, attentive and earnest activity Diligence, sustained activity. DISTINCTION, Diligence, Industry. DEFINITION: Diligence, sustained activity; Industry, habitual laborious activity. DISTINCTION, founded on the difference between mental and bodily exertion. DISCRIMINATION: "The diligence of the student, and the industry of the farmer, have, equally, their rewards." Diligence, Assiduity. DEFINITION Diligence, sustained activity; Assiduity, prolong activity. DISTINCTION, founded on the difference of degree, as regards continuance. DISCRIMINATION: "His diligence in all his varied pursuits in private life, and his assiduity in the discharge of every official duty, were equally characteristic of the man." Attempt, Endeavor. DEFINITION: Attempt, intended action; Endeavor, continued aim of action. DISTINCTION, founded on difference of degree, as to continuance. DISCRIMINATION: 'Desultory attempts will never accomplish the task assigned to persevering endeavor." Play, Sport. DEFINITION Play, cheering recreation; Sport, mirthful recreation. DISTINCTION, founded on difference of degree, as to hilarity. DISCRIMINATION: "The joyous and buoyant spirit of childhood, easily passes from play to sport and frolic." EXERCISE. EXERCISE VIII. SUPPLYING ELLIPSES. A useful supplement to the preceding forms of exercises on words, consists in the attempt to supply appropriate terms, purposely omitted from the context of a given passage, so as to require of the student an attentive regard to the adaptation of language to thought, in varied circumstances of expression.. Note. This exercise demands, in many instances, the preparation furnished in the previous exercises on definition and synonyms, and will always involve a useful review of these, and afford, at the same time, a test by which the student's previous progress may be ascertained. Suggestion to Teachers. In selecting matter for such exercises as are now proposed, the teacher will, of course, be guided by the capacity of his pupils. The character of the exercise in view, is such as to adapt it to all classes of students, from the most advanced to the very youngest engaged in the study of grammar. Judicious selection, on the part of the teacher, will furnish sufficient exercise for the former, in passages requiring close thought and deliberate reflection, as well as a considerable degree of skill, in the process of supplying ellipses; while the work prescribed to the latter, will be of that comparatively easy description, which requires nothing more than intuitive observation, and is merely intended as a discipline to aid in forming a ready ear for expression.Narrative and descriptive writings, are, by their very character, which runs so often into unexpected detail, unsuitable for the material of exercises in the form to which we now advert. But essays, and other didactic compositions, which abound in general sentiment, always furnish appropriate scope for the exercise of replacing expressions which the general tendency of thought evinced in the context, will, in part, suggest, when they have been removed, for the time, by the teacher, in prescribing a practical lesson of this description. Suggestion to Students. The exercise in supplying ellipses, is necessarily of such a form as to render it inapplicable, in strictness of practice, to the circumstances of the student who is prosecuting the study of language, as a matter of self-culture. An exercise nearly equivalent, however, may be substituted in such cases, that of reading a paragraph from a standard author, and then endeavoring to express his sentiment in the same words, as far as memory will serve to reproduce them. On comparing his own composition with that of the author, the student will usually find, in addition to more or less variation from the original thought, a difference in the forms of expression, arising from a different selection of words. The greater force, clearness, or appropriateness of the language of the author, will afford the intended lesson in choice of expression. Examples. The following paragraphs are selected from essays by Clarendon, Addison, Johnson, Savile, and Colton. Exercise in supplying the omission of (1.) Nouns. "He that hath been brought up from his in the done, all his of God, and lived suitably to that learns more from affliction, than he had before. That presented all his defects to him, in a true mirror: he discerned his in their own and his which appeared before to him only in the light of "We should probably find much better in our pursuits, if, before we are too solicitous, and set out upon any weigh and consider the true of the which we desire, whether it be indeed worth all that we shall be put to, and all the to spend in obtaining it." 66 the we are likely Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the in the desert, she tantalizes us with a ; but, like the with very and what assistance from nature, to a height of reputation and honor, by their , untaught wisdom, and judgment, flights would such men make, with |