Calendar: 1882-1883 Page 656

INGLIS SCHOLARSHIPS G53 The historical changes of language have reduced the rich and powerful idiom of the poets of the Veda to the meagre and impure jargon of the modern Sepoy Try to alter the smallest rule of English and you will find it is physically impossible The sources of Italian are not to be found in the Classical literature of Rome but in the popular dialects of Italy There are languages in which we can still watch the growth of grammar or more correctly the gradual lapse of material into merely formal elements Now barbarian is one of those lazy expressions which seem to say everything but in reality say nothing It was applied as recklessly as the word heretic during the Middle Α β ί Ά m1 fj1a9 si ho י wotxz film Serenissime rex schisma est generis neutri Omnia grsece Quum sit turpe magis nostris nescire latine Even Cato the leader of the orthodox national and conservative party expressed his surprise that haruspex when meeting colleague did not burst out laughing Derive these words and phrases aujourd'hui-twenty- fairy-like one o'clock-sibyl-genitive- feeble-case-pay -Ah rim an III -GBngfoi feietoru 1660-1714 How far did the government of the Restoration take up the work of the Long Parliament Under what disabilities were the Dissenters in the reign of Charles II What causes favoured the rise of bribery in Par- liament Give an account of the circumstances under which the Test Act was passed Write sketch of Monmouth's invasion Give an account of the relations between the Crown and the House of Commons from the Peace of Ryswick to the death of William HI