Calendar: 1881-1882 Page 647

648 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE Tu Paurais acceptoe au nom de tout Potat Sans vouloir Pacquorir par un assassinat Quel etait done ton but d'y regner ma place D'un otrange malheur son destin le menace Si pour monter au trone et lui donner la loi Tu ne trouves dans Eome autre obstacle que moi Si jusques ce point son sort est doplorable Que tu sois aprfes moi le plus considerable Et que ce grand fardeau de Pempire romain Ne puisse apres ma mort tomber mieux qu'en ta main Tantot 6th line Give the two very different meanings of this adverb Tienne 8th line How do you explain the use of the subjunctive here Entreprendre 9th line Comment on this use of entre- prendre as an intransitive verb Acceptie 11th line Why this past participle in the feminine Jusques 17th line Distinguish between jusqu'a and jusques Explain the subjunctive sois 18th line and puisse 19th line Write the five primitive tenses of Te tais-tienne-faisait -entreprendre-acquerir-puisse Translate into French There are several modes of acting powerfully upon public assemblies The speaker may address himself either to their logic by the vigour and conclusiveness of his reasonings or to their wit by the vivacity and piquancy of his expressions allusions and repartees or to their hearts by the emotions of sensibility or to their passions by vehemence of in- vective or to their imagination by the splendour of rhetorical figures But most frequently it is by means of figures of imagery that eloquence produces its greatest effects The prosopopoeia of the warriors who fell at Marathon-the