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Classes II. C & ÌII. A.B. with History.
(Five questions to be done, among which must be those marked.*)
* 1. What is the meaning of ?--Feudal system, Monarchy, Anchy, House of Anjou, Civil War,
Crusades, a pretender, intiques, Prince of Wales, Constitution, Provisions. 2. Who were John Balliol, Becket, Wallace, Simon de Montfort, Perkin Warbeck, Coeur de L branes Earl of Warwick, Wycliffe, Wat Tyler, Prince Arthur, The Black Prince, Queen Maud,
Walter Tyrrel, Beauclerc, Longshanke, Joan of Arc ?
3. In what reigns were the following?-Barons War, Battle of Bosworth, Crecy, Agincourt,
Charta, Bannockburn, Poitiers, Domesday Book.
4. Write a short character of Richard 1, or Henry V.
5. Give in their order the principal battles in the Wars of the Roses, and say by which side
were wou.
6. What right bad Edward I. to the throne of Scotland; and how did he enforce it? 7. What right to the throne of England had---William L., William II., Henry II., Edward 1
Henry IV., Richard III ?
DICTATION AND TRANSLATION INTO CHINESE.
Class I.
DICTATION AND TRANSLATION INTO CHINESE. Class III A.
(Translate the first part only. End with the words "length of time."
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At low water the sand becomes firm, and may be walked on in safety; but as the tide rises the mater saturates the mass of sand and transforms it into a pulp of the consistency of mud. It is when in this state that the Sands are most dangerous; not only because ships that then strike on them gradually sink into the ooze, but also because then the sand shifts from place to place, so as to render
Charts useless for any length of time,
the
It is noble to seek truth, and it is beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true.
To mark the cours of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past; to see why nations have risen and why they have fallen; to speak of light, and heat, and the winds; to know what man h discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; to hear the chemist unfold the marvellous properties which the Creator has locked up in a speck of earth ¡—it is worth while in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline.
A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime. Whom Noes such a man oppress? With whose happiness does he interfere? In the pursuit of science be injure, no man, and in the acquisition he does good to all.
127 words wwnal length.
Class II. A,
It is evidently the continent most thickly covered with cities and towns; and with high-rouls, canals, and railways, weaving the towns into a living and ever-busy net-work. There civilisation has struck its roots deepest, and stretched its branches widest. There the arts and sciences have reached their highest development. There the great mechanical inventions which have knit the world into one vast inter-dependent society have had their birth; and commerce, manufactures, and agricultur have been brought to the greatest perfection. Europe has laid the whole world under contribution for the supply of her physical wants. In return the whole world has been laid under obligation to her for not less real benefits.
100 words usual length.
Class II. B.
Three ships are placed warn sailors of their approach to his dangerons shoal one at the othern extrem one at the southern extremity, and one on a pt about the miduse of the
western side.
Class III, B.
· (Translate the first part only. End with the words "of the law.")
The Charter, creased with age and injured by fire, but with John's seal hanging to it, is still to When it is looked iuto, it seems to do very little. It bound the king not to demand money
be seen.
from his people without the consent of the great vassals and of the burghers of the cities; it required that no one should be made an officer of justice unless he had a knowledge of the law, and that the chief court of justice should not move about with the king, but be always in one place.
Nor was the ing to sell, refuse, on delay justice to an man, nor to seize the person or gods of ny freeman witho the lawful judgment of his peers,--.e., equals-according to the law of the mud.
Class IV. 4.
(Translate the first part only.
End with the words “front ranks.”)
Sometimes the people turn out of the village which the locusts are approaching, and attempt to tem the torrent. They dig trenches, they kindle fires, they attack them with branches of trees, they Sweep them back with brushes; but all to no purpose. The trenches become filled with living locusts, the fires are smothered with dead ones, and the vast column moves on in complete ignorance of the fate of the front ranks.
As for attempting to brush away this terrible enemy ape might as we expect to sweep back the flowing tide with a broom. Even the direction of the march cannot be changed. A common instinct ems to carry then right onward. They pursue their line of march with the regularity of a dis- ciplined army.
Class IV. B.C.
(Translate the first part only. End with the word "fatigue.") The wise Romans made excellent roads, extending through all parts of their empire; and some of them can yet be traced in English, running along as straight as an arrow.
One of these is Watling Street, so often mentioned in history. After the fall of the Roman Empire their roads were neglected, they fell into decay, and the traveller could hardly proceed without great danger, or, at least,
It is so with all the crafts, and they are inseparably dependent one on another. The mason waits on the carpenter for his mallet, and the carpenter on the smith for his saw; the sunith on the smelter for his iron, and the smelter on the miner for his ore. Each, moreover, needs the help of allout great fatigue. the others--the carpenter the smith, as much as the smith the carpenter; and both the mason, much as the mason both. This helplessness of the single craftsman is altogether peculiar to the human artist. Amongst the lower animals it is not seen; and they have never heard of such
doctrine as that of the division of labour.
100 words ural length.
DICTATION.
Class II. C.
Shot is made by pouring melted lead through a colander, from a great height, into water beneath In the descent, the shot becomes globular, from the same cause that drops of rain assume that form falling. In various manufacturing towns shot of all sizes is made on a large scale, more or less fay be made to fall as a slower into water beneath. The opposition of the air causes the roundness follows. High towers, which the workmen can ascend, are hollow, so that from the top molteu les
and the coldness of the water does the hardening at once.
All ut on your horse plunged into a marsh, you came to axiver, and the bridge was beken town, and why you tried to ford the stream, your hose might get out of his depth and then he and
is rider would be nearly drowned.
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Class V. A. nearly w
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as Class I (Translate the first part only. End with the words “her cottage window,") There was once a poor old widow, who, finding it hard work to get her living at home, thought
he would like to go to the gold-diggins in Australia So she crossel the sea to that far-off country, only treasures she possessed she took with her. One of these was a pet skylark, which had been to live in a small wicker cage, outside her cottage window.
taking their dinners. Day after day, the lack sang his happy song beside her door. She listened When she got to Australia, she hired a hut, and got her living by washing the gold-diggers' clothes nd it cheared her at her work. Some of the gold diggers listened too.
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