11. P is a point at a known vertical distance above the point C in a horizontal plane ABC. The angles of depression of the two points A, B are observed at P, and also the angle between the vertical planes APC, BPC, viz., the angle A CB. Write down all the calculations for determining the length AB. 12. Find the area of a regular polygon of n sides eacha. ENGLISH. The Board of Examiners. 1. In the following passages parse fully each word which is printed in italics : And truely, euen Plato, whosoeuer well considereth, shall find that in the body of his work, though the inside and strength were Philosophy, the skinne as it were and beauty, depended most of Poetrie: for all standeth upon Dialogues, wherein he faineth many honest Burgesses of Athens to speake of such matters, that if they had been sette on the racke, they would neuer have confessed them. Besides his poetical describing the circumstances of their meetings, as the well ordering of a banquet, the delicacie of a walke, with interlacing meere tales, as Gyges Ring, and others which who knoweth not to be flowers of Poetrie, did never walke into Appolo's Garden. Beseech you give me leave to retire myself. O, he's a limb that has but a disease; D 2. Make a full analysis of each of the following passages: Seneca be there In gorgeous phrase of laboured eloquence It is sufficient that inability to believe can coexist with ability to conceive, and that a mental association between two facts which is not intense enough to make their separation unimaginable may yet create difficulty in believing that the two can exist apart. 3. Write a note upon the derivation and meaning of each of the following words : 4. Write out from memory Wordsworth's sonnet commencing "Scorn not the Sonnet." (ii) Snow falls only in winter. (iii) There was only space for two to pass abreast. (iv) Only a shadow remained. (v) Move fast, only do not run. (vi) Pleasing assurances, only they are false. (vii) Only seeming wise. Write a note on the sense and syntax of only in each of the above phrases. (b) What is the meaning, and what the history, of the prefix y as in yclept? (c) What is the origin of the suffix and in garland, viand, &c. ? 6. (a) "In the incipient language of a country"(i) Which does Goldsmith say proceeds first, the prose writer or the poet ? (ii) What is the function of each? (iii) How does Sidney confirm Goldsmith's opinion as to the priority? (b) Who were opposed to Henry of Navarre at Ivry? (c) Explain the references in the following:— (i) “And all that mighty heart is lying still." (iii) "Myself will to my darling be 7. (a) Give some account of the character of Menenius Agrippa. (b) What are the principal incidents in the 3rd Act of Coriolanus? 8. Render each of the following passages in modern English, preserving the exact meaning of the original: (a) But this is to no man but to him that will read him, and read him with attentiue studious painfulness. (b) Then woulde hee alledge you innumerable examples, conferring storie by storie, how much the wisest Senatours and Princes have beenę directed by the credite of history. (c) But now let us see how the Greekes named it, and howe they deemed of it. 9. Explain the following passages:- (b) "Two such wealsmen as you are." (e) "He lurch'd all swords o' the garland." (f) "The cockle of rebellion," 10. (a) What changes have taken place in the plural inflexion of the adjective ? (b) Give examples of inflected plural adjectives surviving as nouns. 11. Make a list of the Aryan languages, underlining those from which English is principally derived. 12. Write an essay on-Union is strength. HISTORY. The Board of Examiners. 1. Explain the nature, the limits, and the permanent results of the Roman occupation of Britain. 2. What changes in the social and in the political constitution of England were directly caused by the Norman Conquest? 3. Give some account of the judicial reforms of Henry the Second. 4. Give some account of the legislation on non-ecclesiastical subjects during the reign of Henry the Eighth. 5. Give some account of the foreign policy of William the Third.. 6. When and under what circumstances did the United States of America become a foreign country as regards England? 7. Write a short memoir of the public career of Lord Castlereagh. 8. Give an account of the causes which led to the Crimean war, and of the conditions imposed by the subsequent peace. 9. Give some account of the Roman Comitia, and explain the relation thereto of the Senate in matters of legislation. 10. Trace carefully the history of Rome from Cannæ to Zama. 11. Write a short memoir of Themistocles. 12. Write a short history of Syracuse. |