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WARNEFORD SCHOLARSHIPS 629 senat libre et capable de faire respecter son gouvernement mais il voulait aussi un senat qui satisfit tous les moments ses craintes ses jalousies ses haines enfin l'homme d'Etat cedait continuelle- ment l'homme II II n'y point Distinguish between pas and point Can you also explain etymologically why the particle nt is re- uired in addition to pas or point when verb is expressed to constitute negation Point "de"plus cruelle tyrannic When is de thus substi- uted for the indefinite article Autant de gens qu'il "en'' put soupgoitner Can you explain when this pronoun en is thus idiomatically introduced as is so often the case Give examples Qu'un tyran ait manque-vouMt avilir-un sitial qui satisfit Explain the use of the subjunctive mood in each case Give the different meanings of manquer manquer manquer de III Sketch in French the life of Montesquieu and comment upon any one prominent passage of his great work on the Grandeur et Decadence des Remains IV Translate into French The greatness of Rome was founded on the rare and almost incredible alliance of virtue and of fortune The long period of her infancy was employed in laborious slruggle against the tribes of Italy the neighbours and enemies of the rising city In the strength and ardour of youth she sustained the storms of war carried her victorious arms beyond the seas and the moun- tains and brought home triumphant laurels from every country of the globe At length verging towards old age and sometimes conquering by the terror only of her name she sought the blessings of ease and tranquillity The venerable city which had trampled on the necks of the fiercest nations and established system of laws the perpetual guardians of justice and freedom was content like wise and wealthy parent to devolve on the Csesars her favourite sons the care of governing her ample patrimony -Gibbon