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4. What are the parts composing the shoulder girdle in an ordinary vertebrate?

5. What is the most generalized form of limb-ray among vertebrates? 6. Distinguish Ichthyopsida from Sauropsida.

7. Draw a contrast between the eye of a cuttlefish and that of a vertebrate.

8. What is the relation of the anterior end of the nolochord in a Vertebrate embryo to the cerebral vesicles ?

9. What are the epidermal appendages developed in birds?

10. Describe the course of the circulation in a fish.

II. What are the primary divisions of Insecta?

12. What forms of organ of vision are found among Anthropods?

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1. Give Hallam's sketch of the ancient state of Ireland till the invasion of Henry II.

2. What is his explanation of the rebellion in 1641 ?

3. William III. by losing sight of that subordination to the law, which is the duty of an English sovereign, incurred the severest mortification of his reign. Hallam's opinion as to the conduct of the House of Commons on this occasion ?

4. What was the Act of 1700 against the growth of Popery? Burnet offers some shameful arguments in favour of the bill? What comparison does Hallam draw between the position of the Catholics in England and the Protestants in France?

5. Write a note on the various significations of the terms Whig and Tory.

6. Hallam considers the fiscal code to be a set off against the advantages of the Revolution. Why so?

7. Burnet, in his history of the year 1693, remarks that "the French, though much weaker at sea, were the most successful there, and by our ill conduct we lost much, both in our honour and interest, on that element." Give an account of these transactions.

8. In 1696 "a bill was brought into the House of Commons, declaring all men incapable of public trust, or to serve in parliament, who did not sign the Association." What was this Association?

9. Give Burnet's account of the debates in the Session of 1709 concerning trials of treasons in Scotland.

10. What circumstances led to the simultaneous creation of twelve peers by Queen Anne? An important constitutional question arose in the House of Lords on the day of their introduction?

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1. Hallam describes an act of Sir Arthur Grey's at Smerwick as one of those extremities which justly revolt the common feelings of mankind." What was this?

2. Date of the Statute of Drogheda ?

3. Among the objects of the oppression and insult of Strafford, in Ireland we find, says Hallam, "all that most illustrates the contemporary annals." He mentions four names in particular?

4. What four peers were impeached on account of the Partition treaties (1698-1700)?

5. Hallam says, "it is perhaps less easy to justify the conduct of Chief Justice Treby in the trial of Anderton for printing a treasonable pamphlet." What was this case?

6. According to Burnet, who deserves the credit of having put William III. on the method of corruption by offices and places held at pleasure?

7. What is Hallam's opinion as to the expediency of William's exercise of the Veto on the Bill for free and impartial proceedings in Parliament?

8. Who were the members of the "Junto" in the reign of Queen Anne?

9. Though the personal authority of the sovereign seems to have been at its lowest point in the reigns of George I. and George II., yet they exercised considerable influence over their ministers. What does Hallam consider to be the most striking instance of this?

10. What does he pronounce to be "the most angry resolution which one House of Parliament in a matter not affecting its privileges has ever recorded against the other?"

11. In 1716 Great Britain was exposed to a very serious danger through the Hanoverian connexion ?

12. Lord Sunderland persuaded George I. to renounce one of his most important prerogatives. On what occasion, and with what result?

13. Extraordinary behaviour of Sancroft in the matter of the consecration of Burnet?

14. "The king had, the very day after the battle at the Boyne, the news of a battle fought in Flanders." What was this?

15. "During the treaty [of Limerick], a saying of Sarsfield's deserves to be remembered, for it was much talked of all Europe over." What was this?

16. "It must be confessed," says Burnet (1692), "that the behaviour of many clergymen gave Atheists no small advantage." How so?

17. The bill (1702) settling an annuity on Prince George of Denmark in case he should survive the queen gave rise to an important parliamentary question?

18. Burnet, speaking of Harley, says that "an odd accident, that had almost been fatal, proved happy to him." What was this?

19. Dates of the battles, Ramillies, Malplaquet, Oudenarde, and Blenheim ?

20. Date of the battle of La Hogue-of the massacre of Glencoe ?

PROFESSOR DOWDEN.

1. During two hundred years Italy was divided between the kingdom of the Lombards and the exarchate of Ravenna. How divided?

2. Relate the history of the first and the second expeditions of Heraclius against the Persians.

3. State the substance of the Epistles of Gregory II. to Leo the Isaurian, A. D. 727.

4. Mention the principal facts in the history of the Lombards from A. D. 730 to A. D. 774.

5. What are the four practical duties of Islam?

6. Write a notice of the life of Ali, the son of Abu Taleb.

7. Relate the siege of Damascus by the Arabs A. D. 633, its conquest, and the pursuit of the Damascenes.

8. Write a note on the Greek fire, and its use in warfare.

9. Relate the rise of the Abbasides, and fall of the Ommiades, a. D. 746-750.

10. What is Gibbon's estimate of the learning, literature, and science of the Arabs?

POLITICAL SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR DONNELL.

I Show that Free Trade is a form of division of labour.

2. Would the disbanding of the army lower the rate of wages? 3. Show the fallacy in saying that the Castle balls are trade."

4. How does the introduction of machinery affect wages? 5. Does a national loan add to the capital of a country?

6. What is meant by the minimum of profits?

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7. Have College Scholarships any effect on Curates' stipends? 8. Does rent enter into the price of agricultural produce?

9. Does the rent of land used for a rope-walk enter into the price of

ropes ?

10. What is meant by general exchange value? Does it exist in idea, or in fact?

11. How far does the value of commodities depend on the quantity of labour required for their production ?

12. Do values depend on wages?

Modern Literature.

ENGLISH

LITERATURE.

MR. BARLOW.

Write notes on the following passages taken from the poetical works of Milton:

I.

2.

"Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher
Than his Casella, whom he woo'd to sing,
Met in the milder shades of Purgatory.'

"Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life."

3.

4.

"New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large."
"Like one that had been led astray

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Through the Heav'ns wide pathless way."

"And joy shall overtake us like a flood."
"In urns, and altars round,

A drear and dying sound

Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint."

"In argument with men a woman ever
Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause."

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"I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of Death."

"There with thee, new welcome saint,
Like fortunes may her soul acquaint;
With thee there clad in radiant sheen,
No marchioness, but now a queen."

"Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore
When Charlemain with all his peerage fell
By Fontarabbia.”

"The latter quick up flew, and kickt the beam."
"The debt immense of endless gratitude,

So burdensome still paying, still to owe."

"How oft amidst

Thick clouds and dark doth Heav'ns all-ruling Sire
Choose to reside, his glory unobscur'd !"

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

"Immortal amarant, a flow'r which once

In Paradise, fast by the tree of Life
Began to bloom."

"In that sore battle when so many died,
Without reprieve adjudg'd to death,

For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth."
"Before the sun,

Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice
Of God, as with a mantle didst invest

The rising world of waters dark and deep,
Won from the void and formless infinite."
"The void profound

Of unessential Night receives him next
Wide gaping, and with utter loss of being
Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf."

"By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look,

And the Carpathian wisard's hook,
By scaly Triton's winding shell,
And old sooth-saying Glaucus' spell,
By Leucothea's lovely hands,
And her son that rules the strands,
By dead Parthenope's dear tomb,
And fair Ligea's golden comb."

19. "Loud o'er the rest Cremona's trump doth sound."
"Divine Alpheus, who by secret sluice
Stole under seas to meet his Arethuse."

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I. Are there any limits to the toleration of opinions?

2. "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction." WILLIAM BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell.

3. "La ressource de ceux qui n'imaginent pas est de conter."

4. Ought an artist choose solitude or society?

[Choose one subject.]

VAUVENARGUES.

ENGLISH

LITERATURE.

1. Explain and expand the following sentences of Sir Thomas Browne:

(a). "There is in our soul a kind of triumvirate or triple government of three competitors."

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