Calendar: 1882-1883 Page 650

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 647 Unprepared Passage The more to excite the martial spirit of the nation the queen appeared on horseback in the camp and riding through the lines with cheerful and animated countenance exhorted the soldiers in the following words -" My loving people we have been persuaded by some that are careful for our safety to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes for fear of treachery but assure you do not desire to live tt distrust my faithful people Let tyrants fear have always so behaved myself that under God have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the hearts and the good will of my subjects know have but the body of weak woman but have the heart of king and of king of England too and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm Grammatical Questions Give the rule for the declension of German proper names of persons and places Decline those of the following pronouns which are declinable man-3f&cnnamt-οίιυαδ-von-ΐυαδ Translate four and half-two-thirds-it is half-past two-the twenty-seventh of June-five times -six feet long-roses of three kinds-they walked two and two-ten pounds of iron How are participial clauses expressing cause rendered in German Translate He saved himself by swimming across the river-She has become ill from walking too little-That he is absent conclude from his not having visited me