Calendar: 1887-1888 Page 697
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INGLIS SCHOLARSHIPS 701 stler renegade treacle chess algebra hob-nob namby-pamby 15 Fully illustrate The ravages which analogy is making in language are incessant Sometimes word does not merely narrow or extend its meaning but altogether changes it With the supersession of any one of them arts trades amusements large number of words which in the first instance were proper and peculiar to it will have vanished likewise Je definis un patois une ancienne langue qui eu des malheurs At certain earlier periods of nation's life its genius is synthetic and at later becomes analytic II -i$ltIton'$ Ireopagittca &c Give some account of the circumstances under which was written The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty and the suostance of the Preface to Book II Give in your own words the context of these extracts and explain them Or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept or nature to be followed which in them that know art and use judgment is no transgression but an enriching of art If to the instinct of nature and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted and that there be nothing adverse in our climate or the fate of this age &c The corruption and bane which they suck in daily from the writings and interludes of libidinous and ignorant poetasters Briefly summarise Milton's Scheme of Education Can you quote his definition of complete and generous education' ×™ ×™
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