Que nous ont laissé nos parents: Je ne sais pas l'endroit; mais un peu de courage Où la main ne passe et repasse. D'argent, point de caché. Mais le père fut sage Que le travail est un trésor. Or, 2. Que de maux l'ignorance nous cache, que nous devons un jour rencontrer dans la vie sans pouvoir les éviter! La science de ces maux nous empêcherait de vivre. Que de biens l'ignorance nous rend sublimes! Les sciences ne nous charment que dans le commencement de leur étude, quand l'esprit s'y présente plein d'ignorance. C'est le point de contact de la lumière et des ténèbres qui produit le jour le plus favourable à nos yeux. = A bout at last; témoin witness; endroit = place; davantage = more; empêcher=prevent; ténèbres=dark ness. 3. Give the past tenses of venir, vendre, faire, mourir, boire, pouvoir, rendre. Give the singular of yeux, maux, oiseaux. 4. Translate into French : (a) This is not worth the trouble. (e) Give me that pen and those papers. It is only a quarter past four. 1. Translate: GERMAN. Haben Sie Dank, leibster Freund, für das Zeichen Ihres Andenkens, das mir der junge B- von Ihnen überbrachte. Aber was sprechen Sie darin von Briefen, die Dictation and Penmanship. 113 ich erhalten haben soll? Ich habe keinen Brief von Ihnen erhalten, nicht eine Zeile. Welchen weiten Umweg müßen die genommen haben! Künftig liebster Freund, wenn Sie mich mit Briefen beehren, senden Sie solche unter der Adresse meines Herrn. = 2. An den Frühling. Willkommen, schöner Jüngling, Ei! ei! du bist ja wieder, = Zeichen sign; erhalten = received; Wonne delight. 3. (a) Parse genommen, liebster, soll, freu’n. (b) Give the imperfect tenses of haben, bringen, nehmen, gehen, sprechen. (c) Decline ich, mein, Mann. Translate into German : 4. (a) You write better than he does. (b) I have found your letter under the table. DICTATION AND PENMANSHIP. TWENTY MINUTES allowed for these exercises. Candidates are not to paint their letters in the copy-setting exercise, but to take care that the copy is clean and without erasures. Omissions and erasures in the dictation exercise will be counted as mistakes. The words must not be divided into two lines; there is plenty of room for the passage to be written. Write in large hand, as a specimen of penmanship, the word, Hieroglyphics. Write in small hand, as a specimen of penmanship, the sentence "A lie which is half a truth, is ever the worst of lies." DICTATION. Write the passage dictated to you by the Examiner, and punctuate it correctly. (For the Examiner.) The passages A1 A2 are to be given alternately if the number of Candidates is large, and there is danger of copying. If one is enough, give the first (A1). The passage should be read once distinctly, and then dictated once, in portions as marked. If the room is large, and there is danger of your not being heard at its extremity, you may permit one of the officers of the college to stand half-way down the room, and repeat the words after you, exactly as you give them out. It is essential that there be no complaint on the part of the Candidates that they could not hear or understand; you can only prevent this by clearness, accuracy, and audibility. Some nations have been civilized | by conquering, | others by being conquered. But more commonly | the victorious people | has been the pupil, not the teacher, and has voluntarily placed itself [ at the feet of those i whom it began by treading under its own. ! The more favoured countries | of the earth | are the natural seats | of civilization, | and are the very objects | of more warlike and less refined races. Accordingly the rude warrior quits his icebound crags | or burning sands | for sunny hills | or well-watered meadows; and when he has made good | his footing, | what was the incentive | of his conquest | becomes the instrument | of his education. Ag Exactly in the degree in which you require | your decorations to be wrought by thoughtful men, | you diminish the extent and number of architectural works. Your business, as an architect, | is to calculate only on the co-operation of inferior men, to think for them and to indicate for them such expressions of your thoughts | as the weakest capacity can comprehend and the feeblest hand can execute. This is the definition of the purest architectural abstractions. [ They are the laborious thoughts | of the greatest men, put into such easy letters | that they can be written by the simplest. GRAMMAR. TWO HOURS AND A HALF allowed for this paper. Candidates are not permitted to answer more than one question in any Section. (No abbreviation of less than three letters to be used in parsing or analysis.) SECTION I. Parse the words in italics in the following passages: The monarch saw, and shook, That mar our royal mirth. Envy is of all crimes the basest: for malice and anger are appeased with benefits, but envy is exasperated, as envying to fortunate persons both their power and their wish to do good. Write the first passage in simple prose. SECTION II. Analyse the following passages: Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower and the shrub and the tree, In time may have comfort for me. After men have travelled through a few stages in vice, shame forsakes them and turns back to wait upon the few virtues they have still remaining. SECTION III. Give the author, and name of poem from which taken, of some (not more than six) of the following lines: A primrose by a river's brim. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast. The world was all before them where to choose. He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small. Our glorious Semper Eadem, the banner of our pride. The quality of mercy is not strained. O woman! in our hours of ease. Higher still and higher from the earth thou springest. SECTION IV. Classify in parallel columns : 1. The following nouns as common, proper, collective, abstract, or in any other way :-Mob, sheep, man, William, maid-servant, army, Russia, aunt, scissors, parent, authoress, pride, vixen, dream, flock, dragon. Or 2. The following pronouns as personal, relative, interrogative, possessive, or in any other way --Mine, this, each, who, that, what, any, she, all, we, himself, whatever. Or 3. The following verbs as transitive or intransitive, regular or irregular, weak or strong, or in any other way:-Fetch, can, love, regard, speak, come, bring, go, sing, become, hang, do, will, carry. SECTION V. 1. Write down the comparative and superlative degrees of old, bad, much, late, fat, wilful, amiable, clumsy, decent. Name some comparatives and superlatives that have no positive. Or 2. The past tenses and passive participles of the verbs begin, sting, bear, speak, tread, drive, swear, smite. Name also some defective verbs. Or 3. The meaning of the Latin prepositions ante, prœ, and sub, used in composition as prefixes, with examples of each meaning. SECTION VI. Write full notes of a lesson on one of the following subjects :-(a) Abstract nouns; (b) Prepositions of place; (c) Analysis of sentences containing adjective clauses. SECTION VII. Write a letter descriptive of (a) Some manufacturing process; (b) The locality of your town or village; (c) The story of Grace Darling; (d) The Prince of Wales's visit to India. Underline in the letter any words you know to be of Latin origin. |