rounded by twenty thousand friends, not one of whom will do him any wrong, or take anything from him ?” Ion. "To tell the truth, Socrates, we can hardly say that he is." WHEWELL. Translate the following passage into Greek Iambics : Ant. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, That mothers shall but smile when they behold An ancient poet unreasonably discontented at the present state of things, which his system of opinions obliged him to represent in its worst form, has observed of the earth, "that its greater part is covered by the uninhabitable ocean; that of the rest some is encumbered with naked mountains, and some lost under barren sands; some scorched with unintermitted heat, and some petrified with perpetual frost; so that only a few regions remain for the production of fruits, the pasture of cattle, and the accommodation of man.' The same observation may be transferred to the time allotted us in our present state. When we have deducted all that is absorbed in sleep, all that is inevitably appropriated to the demands of nature, or irresistibly engrossed by the tyranny of custom; all that passes in regulating the superficial decorations of life, or is given up in the reciprocations of civility to the disposal of others; all that is torn from us by the violence of disease, or stolen imperceptibly away by lassitude and languor; we shall find that part of our duration very small of which we can truly call ourselves masters, or which we can spend wholly at our own choice. Many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant re currence of the same employments; many of our provisions for ease or happiness are always exhausted by the present day; and a great part of our existence serves no other purpose, than that of enabling us to enjoy the rest. Of the few moments which are left in our disposal, it may reasonably be expected, that we should be so frugal as to let none of them slip from us without some equivalent: and perhaps it might be found, that as the earth, however straitened by rocks and waters, is capable of producing more than all its inhabitants are able to consume, our lives, though much contracted, by incidental distraction, would yet afford us a large space vacant to the exercise of reason and virtue; that we want not time, but diligence, for great performances; and that we squander much of our allowance, even while we think it sparing and insufficient.-JOHNSON. : Translate the following passage into Latin Verse : The wild gazelle on Judah's hills A step as fleet, an eye more bright, Inhabitants more fair. The cedars wave on Lebanon, But Judah's statelier maids are gone! Experimental Physics. DR. HAUGHTON. 1. The incline from Llandulas Station, towards Abergele, is as follows: Three wagons, weighing 15 tons, placed at the head of this incline, are struck by three other wagons moving at 3 miles an hour, and pushed down the incline; find the velocity in miles per hour with which they reach the bottom of the incline, supposing the resistance to be 10 lbs. per ton. 2. Calculate, under the same conditions, the times occupied by the two sets of wagons in travelling down the incline, supposing the coefficient of elasticity of shock to be 0.5. 3. Find the velocity of water issuing through a narrow aperture, and state the quantity discharged in a given time, as found by experience. 4. Find the lateral and longitudinal aberration, for parallel rays, of a spherical mirror whose semi-aperture is x, and radius r. 5. Describe the appearances produce upon the stars by precession and nutation, and state the period of each. HEAT. DR. APJOHN. 1. Describe Walferdin's thermometer for the mensuration of heights; and, assuming the temperature of boiling water at two stations to beat the lower t, at the upper t', describe how you would proceed to find the exact difference of level. Specify also the correction which, though necessary when the barometer is used, is not necessary with the thermo meter. 2. In portable barometers, in which there is no provision for bringing the surface of the mercury in the cistern to a constant level, there are engraved on the instrument what are called neutral points of temperature and pressure; what is meant by these neutral points, and what use is made of them? 3. How is "specific heat" defined by Jamin ? 4. How, in the case of solids, liquids, and gases, is the specific heat affected by variations of temperature ? 5. Give the expression for the specific heat c of a body, Qand Q' being the quantities of caloric it acquires in being heated from o° to t°, and to t'; and from thence, and the empirical law adopted by Regnault for giving Q in terms of t, deduce the expression of the elementary specific heat. 6. What, in the case of elementary bodies, is the relation between atomic weight and specific heat discovered by Dulong and Petit-and what is the extension of this law to compounds which has been made by Regnault? 7. The specific heat of a compound may be deduced from the specific heats of its elements by a Rule given by Woestyn; on what assun.ption does it rest? 8. The numbers engraved on weights used for delicate purposes should be those which belong to them in vacuo at o° Centigrade; such being the case, when equilibrium is established with them, the actual weight (N) is less than the apparent N. How may the latter be deduced from the former, the density of the material of the weight being d, its coefficient of expansion k, and the weighing being made when the pressure of the air is H, its temperature t, and the force of the vapour in itƒ? 1. Give some account of the state of literature from the meeting of the Long Parliament to the Restoration, noticing the chief living writers, and naming their works published during those years. 2. Write a short essay on the poetry of Coleridge. 3. Arrange the works of Milton, prose and verse, as far as you can in chronological order; and where the name does not indicate it, mention the subject of each work. 4. Notice the chief "defects and faults" of "Paradise Lost," according to Johnson. 5. Johnson says, "Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius." How does Johnson develop this remark? Do you agree with Johnson? 6. Notice some of Milton's Latinisms. 7. Explain the allusions in the following: (a). (b). (e). (d). (e). (ƒ). "At half mankind when generous Manly raves.' Bids Bubo build and send him such a guide." "Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme." HISTORY. PROFESSOR BARLOW. 1. What account does Hallam give of the circumstances that gave such distinguished pre-eminence to the seven Electors of Germany? 2. Write a short sketch of the early history of Pisa. Who was Count Ugolino de' Gherardeschi ? 3. Who does Hallam consider to have been the first real general of modern times? For what reasons? Who does he consider to have been the most illustrious and successful admiral in Europe before the age of Blake and De Ruyter? Give some account of him. 4. What important measure was published in the States-General at Orleans in 1439? How was it carried out? What was the Praguerie ? 5. What were the boundaries of the empire of Charlemagne ? 6. Compare the claims of Henry IV. to the English Crown with those afterwards brought forward by Richard, Duke of York. 7. Write a short account of the life of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, before his appointment to the Protectorate. 8. What instances does Hallam give of the attendance of the inferior clergy in the medieval Parliaments? 9. Hallam traces the progress of Parliament, under the Lancastrian kings, in controlling the Royal administration? 10. Give some account of the proceedings in Parliament in the tenth of Richard II. |