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Questions.
1. From what language is beginning derived? commencement? How do the two words differ in application and use? Give instances. 2. What is an origin? a source? a rise? 3. How are fount, fountain, and spring used in the figurative sense?
Examples.
For learning is the —— pure,
Out from which all glory springs.
Truth is the —— of every good to gods and men.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war are great in love;
The —— of all brave acts is seated here.
It can not be that Desdemona should long continue her love to the Moor, nor he his to her: it was a violent ——, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration.
In the —— God created the heaven and the earth.