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THIRD BOOK OF
LESSON VIII.
FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES.
0ATH1ouc, a., of or pertaini to catholicity; universal. F. catho lique; D. katholick; 1. and S. catolico; L. catlwlicus; G. katho licos,-kata, and halos, a , the whole.
MoRAL1ITY, n., the doctrine of man's Christian duties; ethics. F. moralit . L. moralitas, om mos, manner, supposed by some to be om modus, measure.
S0Pms r (sof'- zm), n., a subtle llacy, a llacious argument. L. and G. sophisma, om (G.) sophia, wisdom, and sophistes, a teacher of wisdom; a name arrogated by a sect of pretenders who sup plied their want of knowledge by subtlety of argument; hence sophiMn.
PamE, n., a lse esteem of our own excellence, accompanied with a pleasure in thinking ourselves above what God has made us-:-a withdrawing of ourselves in our own idea om the subjection we owe to God, and the essential dependance we have upon him; and in this the essence of this detestahle vice consists. A.S. pr te, om pruttian, to extol oneself above others.
SAo'RAMENTS, n., divinely instituted outward or sensible signs o( in visible or spiritual graces. F. sacrements, om sacer, L. holy.
PERFEC1TION, n., the state· of being arrived at an exalted degree of virtue : per ctness, completeness. F. pe ction; cio, L., I do.
!NEF1FABLE, a., unspeakable; that cannot be spoken or uttered: F. ine able, fromJari, L., to speak.
MoDEL (mod'-el), n., the standard; the copy :-that whereby a work is measured or fashioned. F. mod e, om modus, L., a measure.
PA1GANISM, n., heathenism; the system of wors p llowed by the pag,ms or peasants inhabiting the villages and rural districts, which often continued pagan or in del long after the cities had become Christia F. paganisme. L. paganus, a villager, a peas ant, from pagus, a village, and this om (G.) p a, r pege, a untain.
Src'KLE, n., a reaping-hook. L. secula, or sicula, om seco, I cut.
1. fa, is one of the brightest characteristics of . Catholic morality, one of the grandest results of its : authority, that it has anticipated every sophism of i
• the passions, by a precept, and by an express declara tion. So, when it was disputed, whether men of a di erent colour om Europeans, should be consid-
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