ACCREDIT, to give credit to; to be- SACRIFICE, to offer an atonement for

Trespass, to pass over the limits; to ConsECRATE, to make sacred, or set

DISGRACE, to put out of favor; to SOLICIT, to ask earnestly.

AdoRE, to carry to one's mouth; to PresAGE, to indicate beforehand.

salute; to honor deeply. -8, ed, ing

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GREEK.

Absolve, to loose from; to set free, CHRISTEN, to baptize and name.

as from sin.

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CHAPTER XII.

THE PURSUITS OF MAN.

MAN is formed for action, and naturally enters upon some pursuit of life. Wants, circumstances and inclinations urge him to do so. Pursuits arise. They are old as the race. Abel, we are told, was a keeper of sheep, and Cain was a tiller of the ground. They are now quite nu merous, and must be grouped in order to bring them before the mind.

Among the methods of grouping the pursuits, the follow

THE cultivators of the soil are an important class of producers. Their pursuits are the earliest on record; and on them, more than all others, depends the prosperity of man.

The soil received little attention from the Romans and Greeks. The Saxons early attended to it, and laid the foundation of English and American prosperity.

WHISK, a bunch of hay or straw used REIN, a strap of bridle.

as a brush.

Picket, a pointed stake.

CROOK, a staff curving at the end, Inclosure, that which separates, as a

TETHER, a rope to keep an animal HorticULTURE, the care of the garden;

from pasturing too wide.

FRENCH.

ARBOR, a shelter; a frame for vines.

Rowel, a rim or wheel of iron on a

bridle or in a spur.

the practice of gardening.

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ART, strength; practice of human skill.

ist, isan

FENCE, a mound; hedge or defense.

TRENCH, Something cut; a ditch used GRANary, a place for grain.

for draining.

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SurROUND, to lie on all sides, encom- CULTIVATE, to take care of, as the

FISHING and hunting are not, as it is commonly supposed, the first pursuits of man. They come into notice after the flood. Nimrod, we are told, was a mighty hunter.