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6. Give the perfects of pépo, cow, пivo, tundo, pello, mordeo, lego, gaudeo, ferio, and state the present indicative of conticui.

7. Explain the terms Substantive, Adjective, Tense, Person, Reflexive, Relative, Transitive, Deponent.

8. Specify the declension, gender, and genitive case of the nouns agmen animal caro corpus facinus supellex flos hospes mare tellus ver vires; and the conjugation, perfect tense and supine of the verbs adimo cano crescc curro eo gaudeo jubeo loquor mitto nubo obliviscor parco quæro veho tundo pello.

9. Explain the form amatum iri.

10. Write out in full the present tense indicative of péw.

VII.

PALEY.

N.B.-Candidates are required to satisfy the Examiner in each portion of the paper.

EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

1. Give a sketch of Paley's refutation of Hume's position that no amount of evidence can render a miracle credible.

2. State the two principal propositions which Paley advances in relation to the evidence of Christianity as distinguished from other religious systems. 3. What is meant by the genuineness and authenticity of a book respectively? State the propositions which Paley advances with respect to the genuineness and authenticity of the Canon of the New Testament. 4. Mention any points you can remember in which Clement gives important evidence in favour of some of the propositions in the last question.

5. Give a sketch of the rise of the Mahometan religion, and mark clearly the points in which it differs from the rise of Christianity.

6. Mention any arguments in favour of the truth of Christianity derived from the fulfilment of prophecy.

NATURAL THEOLOGY.

1. Give a general sketch of Paley's argument in favour of the existence of an intelligent Creator from the marks of design observed in natural objects.

2. Illustrate the general argument by applying it to the marks of design shown in the construction of the human ear.

3. What does Paley mean by the argument being cumulative? Illustrate the statement.

4. What arguments are afforded by the animal creation in favour of the unity of the Creator?

5. The existence of beasts of prey has been sometimes urged as an argument against the benevolence of the Creator. Examine the force of the objection.

6. Discuss the advantages to rational creatures of being in a state in which many things appear to come by chance.

VIII.

HISTORICAL QUESTIONS (HERODOTUS).

1. Under what circumstances did Pisistratus obtain and lose his power on the occasions of his several usurpations?

2. Give an account of Herodotus's discussion respecting the causes of the overflow of the Nile.

3. What events do you remember connected with Thyrea, Cadytis, Carthage, Samos, Phocæa, Memphis ?

4. What Median Kings are mentioned by Herodotus, and what extensions of the Empire were due to each of them?

5. The circumstances of the colonization of the West Coast of Asia Minor, and the chief cities of each race. 6. What oracles are mentioned in these books, and what influence are they stated to have had upon historical events?

7. Describe the course of the following rivers: Halys, Acer, Araxes. Mæander; adding any notices of them occurring in Herodotus I.-III.

8. Give a brief account of Alyattes, Labynetus, Harpagus, Sesostris, Tomyris, Psammeticus, Smerdis, Polycrates, Zopyrus.

IX.

HISTORICAL QUESTIONS (TACITUS).

1. What were the principal changes that took place under the Empire in the (a) Consulship, (8) Prætorship, (y) Lex læsæ Majestatis?

2. Give a brief account of the revolt in Gaul under Julius Sacrovir.

3. What do you know of Rhescuporis, Segestes, Cremutius Cordus, Sentius, Arminius, Cotys?

4. What causes led to the withdrawal of Tiberius from Rome?

5. What references occur in these books to the reign and personal history of Augustus?

6. What circumstances are connected with Ara Ubiorum, Colophon, Smyrna, Nola, Planasia, Gyarus? Describe the geographical position of these places. 7. Examine the evidence as to complicity of Cn. Piso in the death of Germanicus.

X.

ENGLISH HISTORY.

1066-1189.

1. In what respects may the conquest of England by the Normans be considered beneficial? Describe briefly the causes that produced the various rebellions during the reign of William I.

2. How far did the claims that he advanced to the Crown of England influence his administration of the Government?

3. Write a short sketch of the religious and political motives that conspired to produce the First Crusade. 4. What was the nature and object of the "Domesday Book"? What light does it throw on the history of this period?

5. Give an account (with dates) of the battles of Tenche brai," the Standard," Alnwick; of the Constitutions of Clarendon, and of the Assize of Northampton.

6. A brief life of Thomas à Becket, noting clearly the points at issue between him and the King, and the vacillating influence of the Pope on the quarrel. 7. A short description of the foreign dominions of Henry II., the manner in which they came into his possession, and the effect they produced on his Government.

8. Who were Stigand, Anselm, Hereward, Flambard, Robert of Gloucester, Robert of Belesme, Edric the Forester, William of Tyre?

9. The administration of justice under Henry I. and Henry II.

10. A brief notice of the literature of this period.

XI.

EUCLID I.—IV.

The only symbols allowed are those signifying because, therefore, equal to; the abbreviations AB2 and AB, CD are not permitted.

Students are required to satisfy the Examiners in each Book. 1. Draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point in the same.

2.

Enunciate and prove Euclid I. 26.

3. The lines which join the extremities of equal and parallel straight lines are themselves equal and parallel.

4. Triangles on the same base and between the same parallels are equal.

The lines joining the middle points of the sides of a triangle with the opposite angular points meet in one point.

5. On a given straight line describe a parallelogram equal to a given triangle, and having an angle equal to a given angle.

ABC is a triangle, D any point in the side BC; find a point E in BA produced, so that the triangle EBD shall be equal to the triangle ABC.

6. Divide a straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole line and one part shall be equal to the square on the other part.

7. If a straight line be divided in two parts, then the square on the whole line and one part are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole line and this part together with the square on the other part. 8. If a straight line passing through the centre of a circle cut another straight line not passing through the centre at right angles it shall bisect it.

A circle is described about a triangle ABC, and from its centre O perpendiculars OD, OE, OF are drawn to the opposite sides; shew that the triangle DEF is equiangular to the triangle ABC.

9. Lines which are equally distant from the centre of a circle are equal to one another.

10. If two straight lines be drawn, one touching and the other cutting a circle, the rectangle under the segments of the cutting line is equal to the square on the touching line.

11. Find a point equally distant from three given straight lines.

How many solutions are there to this problem? 12. Describe an equilateral and equiangular hexagon in a given circle.

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How would this problem be modified if for the words "in a given circle" were substituted upon a given straight line"?

XII.

LOGIC (PASS).

1. Logic is said to be both an Art and a Science. what sense is this true?

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2. How would you distinguish Differentia, Property, and Inseperable Accident? Shew how such distinctions would be differently explained by Realists and Nominalists.

3. Explain Extension and Intension-Illicit ProcessModal Propositions - Cross Division-DilemmaPetitio Principii.

4. Prove that two Particular Premisses are inadmissible in a Syllogism Is there any exception to this rule?

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