The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-11-20
from an exuberance of imagination; prolix-

from an exuberance of imagination; prolix-
ity from want of Imagination.
Actual signifies belonging to the thing
done; real signifies belonging to the thing
as it is; positive, to place or fix, is the state
or quality of being fixed, established. What
is actual has proof of its existence within
itself; what is real may be satisfactorily
proved to exist is not deceptive. What is
positive precludes the necessity of proof,
and is self-evident. Actual is opposed to
the suppositious; real to the feigned, ina
ginary; positive to the uncertain, doubtful
Journey, days work, the course man
takes in day, short passage from one
place to another. Travel, TO labor, signifies
course that takes labor to perform it and
causes fatigue; in general it is a long course.
Voyage, way, signifies any course or pas
sage to distance.
Attempt is to try thing; endeavor, to
aim, signifies to try according to ones duty;
effort signifies a bringing out or calling forth
the strength; to try is to explore, examine,
search. To attempt is to set about q
thing with view of effecting it; to try
is to set about thing with view of seeing
the results. An endeavor is continued at
tempt. Attempts may be fruitless; trials
may be vain; endeavors, though unavailing,
may be we'll meant. whether or no."
said Socrates, on the day of his execution,
"God will approve ofmy actions, | know
not; but this L am sure of, that at all times
| have made it my endeavor to please him"
Exert signifies to put forth power. Exercise
signifies to drive or force out. Exert conveys
the idea of calling forth into action; exercise
conveys the idea of repeated or continued
exertion.
Practice, to do, signifies to perform a
part. We exercise an art; we practice q
profession. We exercise patience, fortitude,
or forbearance; we practice charity, kind
ness, and benevolence. Every virtue re-
quires time and place, proper object, and
fit conjuncture of circumstances for the due
exercise of it." Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body. In every art prac-
tice is an indispensable requisite for acquir-
ing perfection.
Hypocrisy signifies one appearing under
a mask. "Hypocrisy is the homage vice
pays to virtue" Dssembler is one who
makes himself appear unlike what he really
is. The hypocrite feigns to be what he is
not; the dissembler conceals what he is; the
former takes to himself the credit of virtues
which he has not; the latter conceals the
vices which he has. The hypocrites, who
abound in all classes of society, do more to
vitiate good manners and turn men from
their path of duty and course of rectitude,
than do all the doctrinal essays and moral
preachings and professions of the teachers of
wisdom and virtue lead to right. Harbor,
to shelter; signifies resting anchoring place;
haven, to have or hold, conveys the idea of
security; port, gate, conveys the idea of
an inclosure. A vessel goes into harbor
for season; it remains in haven for per-
manency; it seeks port as the destination
of its voyage.
Lead signifies to show in direct way or
road. That only can safely lead to the right
and real which is so in itself Whatever is
false in appearance and means, must be so
in results and effects. The politicians of the
present day will yet learn the wise lessons
that they may yet be followers of those
whom they mislead, and that sel6shness and
advancement in the wrong may prevail for
time, but soon the right will make itself
manifest and gain the ascendency.
Stock is quantity laid up. Store signi-
fes to hide. We judge of mans property
by the store which he has. By stock we
gain riches; by store we guard against
want. Weary, wear, that is, to wear out
the strength; tire, to draw, signifies to draw
out the strength. Long exertion wearies
Short and frequent excrtion tires. Die, to
kill, designates the general extinction OF
being; expire, to breathe out, designates the
last action of life, which is momentary
act. "Pope died on the evening of the 3Oth
day of May, 1744, SO placidly that his at
tendants did not discern the exact time OF
his expiration" Trees and plants live
although they have not breath; these die
but do not expires; other beings absorb and
emit air, but do not live, as the fame of q
lamp expires, but does not die. When
Alexander the Great died the Greclan mon
achy expired with him.
To perish signifies TO 60 thoroughly away
To perish expresses more than to die. The
latter expresses the extinction of life; the
former is the dissolution of substances. To
perish expresses the end; when a thing
perishes it ceases to act or exist. To decay,
signifies literally to fall off or away; decline
signifies to turn away or lead aside. Decay
expresses more than decline. What is de-
cayed is fallen and gone; what declines leads
toward fall, or is going. A decline is the
commencement of decay.
To delay signifies to lay or keep back, and
is simply not to commence TO do a thing,
and is mostly the fault of indolent or care
less persons. Defer signifies to put off, and
fixes future time for action. 1t is prudent
to defer the execution of anything until
everything is ready and prepared to do it.
Postpone signifies to place behind or after;
to postpone has always relation to some
thing else which fixes the time of action OF
performance. To procrsstinate signifies to
put off until tomorrow. Procnastination is
the fault of a dilatory man to put off doing
that which he could at the time called for.
Prolong signifies the lengthening the pc
riod OF time for beginning or ending thing.
We prolong to begin or end that which we
intend until such time as our convenience
or interest require. Retard to make thing
hang in hand, to make slow. "Nothing has
tendnd more to retard the advancement of
science than the disposition in vulgar minds
TO villify what they cannot comprehend"
| We delay the execution of thing; we
prolong or protrsct the continuance of a
thing; we retard the termination of thing.
| Quality signifies such as thing really is;
that which is inherent in the object. and CO.