"Read not to contradict and confute."

"To keep the plough in the hands of the owners, and not mere hirelings."

"No man can, by care taking, add a cubit to his stature."

" and tell the Dauphin,

His jest will savour but of shallow wit."

2. Make a full analysis of each of the following passages:

"The French may lay twenty French crowns to one, they will beat us.'

"And to crown the business, it perhaps proves at last a story the company has heard fifty times before; or, at best, some insipid adventure of the relater."

"There are some faults in conversation, which none are so subject to as the men of wit, nor ever so much as when they are with each other."

3. Write a short note on the philology of each of the following words:

4. Write out ten lines from Tennyson's Ulysses commencing "The lights begin to twinkle."

5. (a) How does Dr. Johnson account for the omission from his dictionary of many terms of art and manufacture?

(b) Give the principal parts of the following verbs-owe, wit, dare, draw, lie, stride.

(c) Give English equivalents for the following words derived from Latin :-precede, conceal, predict, provide, assimilate, retain, virile, transient.

6. (a) Write a short note on

"O, you tamely died!

You should have clung to Fulvia's waist, and thrust

The dagger thro' her side."

(b) Give the context of the four lines commencing "A little learning."

(c) Explain

"Zoilus again would start up from the dead." (d) "I was cut off from hope in that sad place, Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears."

Who is speaking, and what is the place?

7. (a) How does Swift define pedantry? (b) What authors who lived in the time of Elizabeth are named by Johnson as using nearly all words necessary for treating in English of:-Theology: Natural knowledge: Policy, war, and navigation: Poetry and fiction. The affairs of common life.

(c) "I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget." Give the substance of the following five lines.

(d)

“When our thoughts were with Rosalind in Arden, or with Viola at the court of Illyria." Explain the allusions.

8. (a) Explain the following passages:

(i.) "Let senses rule; the word is, Pitch and Pay; Trust none."

(ii.) ""Tis a hooded valour; and when it appears it will bate."

(iii.) "But that the scambling and unquiet time Did push it out of further question."

(iv.) “And on his more advice, we pardon him.” (v.) "To purge this field of such a hilding foe." (vi.) "That caves and womby vaultages of France Shall chide your trespass, and return your

mock

In second accent of his ordnance."

(b) What views are expressed by King Henry V. as to the transfer of responsibility for his acts from the soldier to the king who employs him? (c) Write a note on King Henry's order for the massacre of the prisoners.

(d) How does Henry V. refer to his father's usurpation and the murder of Richard?

9. (a) By whom and on what occasion was the boast made, that he could make a small town a great city?

(b) "If a new sect have not two properties, fear it not, for it will not spread." What does Bacon state these two properties to be?

(c) What does Bacon think of mining as a pursuit for young communities?

(d) How does Bacon recommend that the original inhabitants of plantations should be treated?

10. (a) Who were Machiavel, Friar Clement, Ravaillac? (b) KING HENRY-" It may be, his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree."

Give briefly the circumstances which introduce and immediately follow this speech.

11. (a) Give examples of Norman words introduced into English and relating to—

war, church, law, chace.

(b) Define mood, and give illustrative sentences as examples.

(c) According to Dr. Johnson, from which of the English dialects has Modern English sprung?

12. Write briefly the argument of Bacon's Essay on Custom and Education.

13. Write an Essay on-Anger.

HISTORY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain the causes which in England led (a) to the introduction and development and (b) to the decay of the system of villenage.

2. Explain the causes which in England led to the abolition of the system of feudal tenures.

3. Explain the causes which in England led to the Great Rebellion.

4. Explain the causes which in England led to the Revolution.

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5. Who was the so-called " English Justinian ” Discuss his claims to the title.

6. Enumerate the principal trade wars in which during the past three centuries England has been engaged, giving in each case the date, the name of the opposing power, and the general result.

7. Give an account of the foreign relations of England under the Commonwealth.

8. Trace the influence exercised upon English history by Louis the Fourteenth.

9. What rights in addition to his ordinary political franchise belonged to the civis optimo jure? What was meant by Latinitas?

10. Which do you consider the most critical epoch of Roman history, and for what reasons?

11. Give an estimate of the causes which in Greece produced so high an order of intellectual preeminence.

12. Trace the rise of the naval power of Athens.