The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!
How like a prodigal doth she return;

With over weather'd ribs, and ragged sails,-.

Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!
Shakspeare, Merch. of Ven.

Quote from Gray's Poems, three passages strictly parallel to the three above given.

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Alike to all, the kind impartial heav'n

The sparks of truth and happiness has given;
With sense to feel, with memory to retain,
They follow pleasure, and they fly from pain;
Their judgement mends the plan their fancy draws,
The event presages, and explores the cause :
The soft returns of gratitude they know,
By fraud elude, by force repel the foe;
While mutual wishes, mutual woes endear
The social smile and sympathetic tear.

Paraphrase accurately this passage.

BACON: NOVUM ORGANUM.

6. State clearly what you understand by the word "Idol" as used by Bacon.

7. "Heraclitus saith, 'men seek the sciences in the lesser worlds and not in the great and common one'"-of which kind of "Idol" is this an example?

8. Explain what Bacon means by "the anticipation of nature"? 9. Bacon says, "the common Logic is better fitted to fix and establish errors which are founded in vulgar notions than for searching after truth." Whateley declares it as his belief that if Bacon had lived in the present day "he would have made his chief complaint against unmethodized inquiry and illogical reasoning." Shew, from a consideration of the expression" common Logic," that Whateley's assertion is sound and legitimate.

10. Give Bacon's answer to the objection that "the arts and sciences may be wrested, and turned to evil purposes."

FOURTH CLASS.

JOHNSON.

1. Once more, Democritus, arise on Earth,
With cheerful wisdom, and instructive mirth;
See motley life in modern trappings dress'd
And feed with varied fools th' eternal jest.

Thou who could'st laugh where want enchain'd caprice,
Toil crush'd conceit, and man was of a piece,
Where wealth unlov'd without a mourner died

And scarce a sycophant was fed by pride.

(a) Accurately paraphrase this passage.

(6) Explain fully the allusion to Democritus.

2. State as shortly as possible what you conceive to be the peculiar characteristics of Dr. Johnson's style, as well Prose as Verse. In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand,

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Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand.

(c) Why is the epithet "full-blown" applied to Wolsey? (d) To what religious house did Wolsey betake himself after his fall? and in what terms does Shakspeare make him then "reproach the faith of Kings"?

4. Explain accurately the meaning of the following words :venal, virtue, vicissitude, palladium, adamant, libel, septennial, obsequies, obsequious.

5.

What gave great Villiers to th' assassin's knife,
And fixed disease on Harley's closing life?

What murder'd Wentworth, and what exil'd Hyde,

By kings protected, and to kings allied?

(e) Give the respective titles of the four statesmen alluded to in these lines.

(f) Where, and by whom was Villiers slain ?

(g) In whose reign was Wentworth condemned to death? Give very briefly the particulars of his trial and condem

nation.

(h) How is the fourth line strictly applicable to Hyde ?

6. Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind,
Obedient passions and a Will resigned;

For Love, which scarce collective man can fill
For Patience, sov'reign o'er transmitted will;
For Faith, that panting for a happier seat
Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat;
These goods for man, the laws of Heav'n ordain,
These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain;
With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind

And makes the happiness she does not find.
Give an accurate paraphrase of this passage.

Feels her young nerves dilate: blind Emotions heave
His bosom, and with loveliest phrenzy caught,

From earth to heaven he rolls his eye

From heaven to earth. Anon ten thousand shapes,
Like spectres trooping from the wizard's call
Flit swift before him.

Quote the lines of Shakespeare, of which the above passage is an imitation.

9. Give Akenside's definition of "Taste;" if possible in his own words.

10. Waked in the shock, the public genius rose,

Abash'd and keener from his long repose;
Sublime in ancient pride, he raised the spear
Which slaves and tyrants long were wont to fear.
The city felt his call: from man to man,

From street to street, the glorious horror ran;
Each crowded haunt was stirr'd beneath his power

And, murmuring, challeng'd the deciding hour.

(a) Explain accurately the meaning of the clauses printed in italics.

(b) Who was the " Curio" of Akenside? Mr. Macaulay speaks of him as "the greatest leader of Opposition that the House of Commons had ever seen." Who was the Prime Minister whom he so earnestly opposed?

Political Economy.

Monday, April 3rd-Morning Paper.
FIRST CLASS.

SMITH'S WEALTH OF NATIONS.

1. What three general causes determine the relative efficiency of the labour of different nations? Shew that the efficiency of human labour practically determines the relative amount of the wealth of different nations.

2. Explain the origin and use of Money.

3. When the labouring classes are not on the Minimum of Subsistence, a rise or a fall in wages, taking place under different circumstances, may both of them either accelerate or retard the

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rate of increase of the people. Prove this, and enumerate the principal circumstances which determine what shall be the actual effect on the rate of increase of any given rise or fall in wages.

4. What are the sources of Capital? Why is a low rate of profit in a nation, ordinarily an indication of great power in that nation to accumulate Capital from profits?

5. How does Adam Smith define "Rent of Land"? Explain his view of its origin and of its variations. Is his definition correct?

6. State Smith's distinction as to the relative advantages of Capital in Manufactures, Inland Trade, Foreign Trade, and Carrying Trade.

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Paper Currency?

8. Explain Value. In what sense and to what extent can there be a standard or a measure of Value?

Moral Philosophy.

Monday, April 3rd-Morning Paper.
SMITH'S MORAL SENTIMENTS.

SECOND AND THIRD CLASSES.

1. How according to Smith do we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections and sentiments of other people?

2. Shew that generally we are more disposed to sympathize with passions which originate from the imagination, than those which originate from the body.

3. Shew that our sympathy with sorrow is more lively than our sympathy with joy; but that it always falls much more short of the violence of what is felt by the person principally concerned.

4. Shew that the medium through which we view the misfortunes of men of rank, influence, and wealth, is apt to excite