Das Glück ist eine leichte Dirne, Frau Unglück hat im Gegentheile Setzt sich zu dir an's Bett und strickt. FRENCH. DR. ATKINSON. 1. Le moyen âge n'a pas connu la tragédie. How does M. Littré account for this? 2. L'ancien français et le français moderne ont des différences profondes. In what do these consist, and how are they to be accounted for? 3. (a). Show from Patelin examples of the ancient and modern grammatic structure. (b). Is hiatus allowable in O. F. ? (c). Compare the treatment of aime-t-il in the xiii., xvi., and xix. cen turies. (d). Quote as many popular expressions as you can from the farce of Patelin. (e). Explain the phrase "avocat à trois leçons et trois pseaumes." 4. (a). In discussing the authority and age of Patelin, what are the two limits within which its composition must fall, and who are thereby excluded as possible authors? (b). Who is held to be the author, and how is he otherwise known? (e). By what arguments does M. Génin support his opinion as to the authorship, and how does M. Littré criticize those arguments? 5. "Par les opinions qu'il exprime et les idées qu'il défend, Rutebœuf représente exactement la fin du xiiie. siècle." Show this. 6. Trace the fortunes of the fabliau in modern literature. 7. Write what you know of these "romans," Mahomet, Troie, Partonopeus, Renart, Flore et Blanchefleur. 8. Write a notice on the romans d'aventures in illustration of this proposition: "la tradition possédait évidemment à cette époque un immense trésor formé et transmis par les civilisations antérieures." 9. Compare the histories of the four great early historians of France. 10. To what does M. Demogeot attribute "la cause de l'infériorité où languissait alors la poésie (of Chas. d'Orléans, &c.) ? Subject for Essay (in French). Le moyen âge déjà était une aristocratie tempérée par des fabliaux. Translate carefully the following passage from Montaigne, and write an article on the usage of grammar and idiom observable in Montaigne : ... Mais aussi, de l'aultre part, c'est une sotte presumption d'aller desdaignant et condamnant pour faulx ce qui ne nous semble pas vraysemblable: qui est un vice ordinaire de ceulx qui pensent avoir quelque suffisance oultre la commune. I'en faisois ainsin aultrefois; et si i'oyoy parler ou des esprits qui reviennent, ou du prognostique des choses futures, des enchantements, des sorcelleries, ou faire quelque aultre conte où ie ne peusse pas mordre, il me venoit compassion du pauvre peuple abusé de ces folies. Et, à present, ie treuve que i'estoy pour le moins aultant à plaindre moy mesme; non que l'experience m'aye depuis rien faict veoir au dessus de mes premieres creances, et si n'a pas tenu à ma curiosité; mais la raison m'a instruict que, de condamner ainsi resolument une chose pour faulse et impossible, c'est se donner l'advantage d'avoir dans la teste les bornes et limites de la volonté de Dieu et de la puissance de nostre nature; et qu'il n'y a point de plus notable folie au monde, que de les ramener à la mesure de nostre capacité et suffisance. Si nous appellons monstres, ou miracles, ce où nostre raison ne peult aller, combien s'en presente il continuellement à nostre veue ? Considerons au travers de quels nuages, et comment à tastons, on nous mene à la cognoissance de la pluspart des choses qui nous sont entre mains : certes, nous trouverons que c'est plustost accoustumance que science qui nous en oste l'estrangeté. Translate, and give the etymology of the difficult words: Hom ki la deit cuillir, entur la deit fuir JUNIOR SOPHISTERS. Classics. MR. GRAY. Translate the following passages 1. Beginning, Qualis coena tamen? Vinum, quod sucida nolit...... Ending, Frigidior Geticis petitur decocta pruinis. JUVENAL, Sat. v. Ibid., Sat. vii. 2. Beginning, Dic igitur, quid causidicis civilia praestent...... Ending, Spondet enim Tyrio stlataria purpura filo. 3. Beginning, Servorum ventres modio castigat iniquo, Ending, Ut locuples moriaris, egentis vivere fato? Ibid., Sat. xiv. 4. Beginning, Si tibi crateras argenti incusaque pingui.... Ending, Nempe hoc, quod Veneri donatae a virgine puppae. PERSIUS, Sat. ii. 5. Beginning, Libertate opus est, non hac, quam, ut quisque, Veliná . . . . Ending, Marcus Dama. Ibid., Sat. v. 1. Write explanatory notes on the above passages where necessary. 2. Why does Merivale designate his work the history of the Romans, rather than of Rome ? 3. Describe the Flavian Amphitheatre. When does it first get the name of Colosseum ? The erection of such edifices by the Emperors marks an era in our history? 4. Give the substance of Merivale's observations on the bitter charges Tacitus makes against Domitian in the matter of Agricola's recall. 5. What was the Agon Capitolinus ? 6. An anecdote is preserved by Dion which forms a fitting pendant to the Council of "the turbot" described by Juvenal? 7. Where were the Agri Decumates, and why so called? 8. What profound reason influenced Trajan to construct his great military causeway from the Mayn to the shores of the Euxine? 9. What important information do we get from the tablet of Veleia ? 10. From what sources do we obtain our knowledge of Trajan's exploits and character ? MR. TYRRELL. Translate the following passages :— 1. Beginning, Καὶ πάλαι θαυμάζειν ἐνίους οἴομαι, κ. τ. λ. Ending, ὡς κοινὸς ἐχθρὸς τῷ πολιτεία. DEMOSTHENES, in Mid., 38. Ibid., 242. 2. Beginning, Καὶ περὶ μὲν τῶν τότε πραχθέντων, κ. τ. λ. Ending, εἶναι 'Αλεξάνδρου; ἀκούεις, ἃ λέγουσιν. 3. Beginning, σύ δ', ὁ σεμνὸς ἀνὴρ καί διαπτύων τοὺς ἄλλους, κ. τ. λ. Ending, κινδύνων ὡς δειλοὺς σκῶπτεις. Ibid., De Cor., 314. 4. Beginning, “ ὁρᾶτ',” ἔφην ἐγώ, “ ὦ ἄνδρες ̓Αμφικτύονες, κ.τ.λ. Ending, Προναίᾳ, μηδὲ δεξαίντο αὐτῶν τὰ ἱερά.” AESCH. contra Ctes., 119. 5. Beginning, Μὴ οὖν ὡς ὑπὲρ ἀλλοτρίας ἀλλ ̓ ὡς, κ. τ. λ. Ending, ἀλλ ̓ οὐ συκοφάντην ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῇ πόλει. Ibid., 256. 1. Show that the public documents quoted in the speech De Corona cannot be genuine. 2. What is your estimate of the political morality of Demosthenes' correspondence with Persia? 3. What is the subject of the Panegyricus of Isocrates, what of the Oratio ad Philippum? 4. Καθήμενος κάτω ὑπὸ τῇ κατατομῷ : explain these words of Hyperides. 5. Give in Greek the celebrated utterance of Demades on hearing of the death of Alexander. How did the same orator illustrate the helplessness of the Macedonian military force at that crisis? Metaphysics. HAMILTON'S LECTURES, AND MILL ON HAMILTON. DR. STUBBS. 1. What three considerations, in Sir W. Hamilton's opinion, overthrow Stewart's theory of the perception of visible figure? 2. What is Kant's division of the bodily senses? 3. What did Gassendi consider to be the three functions of intellect? 4. Hume's classification of the laws of association? To what does Sir W. Hamilton reduce them? 5. How would Hamilton employ the words "Noetic" and "Dianotic ?" 6. What illustration was adduced by Liebnitz of his theory that ideas and truths are innate to us? 7. What are the opposite theories of Adam Smith and Campanella as to the formation of general appellatives and proper names? What intermediate theory conciliates both? 8. How does Hamilton criticise the objections which have been made to Kant's classification of the mental phoenomena ? 9. Division of the sublime? The feeling with which we contem plate a sublime object is a mixed one ? MR. PANTON. 1. What are the two definitions of Consciousness given by Hamilton, and whence arises the difficulty of reconciling them? What, according to Mill, is Hamilton's real opinion on this subject; and what improvement has he made on the theory of Consciousness held by Brown and James Mill? 2. What superiority does Mill point out in Hamilton's method of investigating the ultimate deliverances of Consciousness as contrasted with that of Reid? On what grounds does he defend Locke's method of psychological inquiry against the criticism of Cousin ? 3. What is Hamilton's conception (as explained by Mill) of the difference between his own theory of External Perception and that of Brown? State Hamilton's arguments in refutation of Brown's theory, and give Mill's replies. 4. Give an accurate statement of Mill's explanation of the origin and growth of the idea of Matter, or External Nature. 5. Give an account of the various objections urged by Mr. O'Hanlon against this theory, with Mill's replies. 6. Give a statement of Brown's theory of Extension, and Mill's defence of it against Hamilton's criticism. What part of the theory does Mill not defend? He states the cause of the difficulty supporters of Hamilton's theory find in admitting Brown's conclusions, and points out a possible experimentum crucis between the rival theories. SCHWEGLER AND MAHAFFY'S KANT. DR. SHAW. I. "Zeno's philosophy," says Schwegler, 66 as it is the completion of the Eleatic principle, so also is it the beginning of its end." Show this. 2. The Aaiuwv of Socrates is regarded by Schwegler as a transition between two successive states of human intelligence. 3. Give the original and the various derived senses of the word Dialectic, and exhibit their connexion? Mention the Platonic dialogues in which the several explanations occur. |