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Nine English Teachers and eighteen Teachers for the Classical and Vernacular Languages of India.

St. Thomas' College, Colombo.

AFFILIATED, 1864.

This Institution was founded by Bishop Chapman, in 1851, and consists of two parts: the College and Collegiate School.

The College instruction comprehends two courses of study: one adapted to those who desire a general education; the other, to those who intend to devote themselves to the ministry.

The former course consists of Lectures in Divinity, Logic, Classics, Mathematics, History, Natural Science, and the study of the English language.

The instruction in the Theological Course is in strict conformity with the principles of the Church of England.

No scholar of the School who has passed the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University is permitted to continue in the School; he must either enter the College, or cease his connexion with the Institution.

There is also an Orphan Asylum appended to the Institution.

Warden,............Rev. Geo. Bennett, M. A.

COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.

Head Master,..... Rev. W. Ellis.

Second ditto, ......Mr. G. C. Dunbar.

.........Messrs. Rea, Elders, and Perera.

Assistants,.........

VII.

EXAMINATION PAPERS.

Entrance Examination.

1863.

ENGLISH POETRY.

Examiner.-REV. W. JOHNSON, B. A.

1. Paraphrase the following passage:

She (Fame) was a voice alone,

And dwelt upon the noisy tongues of men.
She never thought, but gabbled ever on,
Applauding most what least deserved applause.
The motive, the result, was naught to her.
The deed alone, though dyed in human gore,
And steeped in widows' tears, if it stood out,
To prominent display, she talked of much,
And roared around it with a thousand tongues.
As changed the wind her organ, so she changed
Perpetually; and whom she praised to-day,
Vexing his ear with acclamations loud,

To-morrow blamed, and hissed him out of sight. 2. Explain the sense of the following extracts. Do not paraphrase them.

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Was Folly's most peculiar attribute,

And native act, to make experience void.

(b) He (the Sceptic) was the devil's pioneer who cut The fences down of virtue, sapped her walls, And oped a smooth and easy way to death.

(c) The dancing pair that simply sought renown,
By holding out to tire each other down;
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,
While secret laughter titter'd round the place.

(d) Far diff'rent these from ev'ry former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love. 3. Define the terms-apostrophe, antithesis, irony, hyperbole, personification.

4. (a) Give the roots of the following words, and mention two or three other derivations from each root:

:

Sympathy, distribution, destroy, fluctuate.

(b) How many parts of speech may each of the following words be? Form sentences illustrating each

case,

desert tack,

bay.

5. Explain the peculiar meanings of shall and will in affirmative sentences in the three persons, and illustrate by examples.

6. (a) How many moods are there in English, and what are their uses?

(b) Parse the following:

Proof this, beyond all lingering of doubt,
That not with natural or mental wealth

Was God delighted, or His peace secured.

7. Give a free rendering of the following lines, altering, as much as possible the language, changing the structure of the sentences, and divesting the passage of figures.

He travelled sorely, and made many a tack,
His sails oft shifting to arrive,—dread thought!
Arrive at utter nothingness; and have

Being no more, no feeling, memory,

No lingering consciousness that e'er he was. Guilt's midnight wish! last, most abhorred thought!

Most desperate effort of extremest sin!

Others, preoccupied, ne'er saw true Hope;
He, seeing, aimed to stab her to the heart,
And with infernal chemistry to wring
The last sweet drop from sorrow's cup of gall.

ENGLISH PROSE.

Examiner.-GEORGE BELLETT, M. A.

To those solitudes of the pathless sky, by the force of the wind and the tumults of the lower atmosphere, are borne the smallest insects; in those serene solitudes, in the full flood of the undimmed sunshine floats the condor. The difference between the two is marked. The insects, borne aloft by external strength, are tossed hither and thither in the thin air, with their

little pinions tattered, and their little senses bewildered: the condor, with out-spread fans, rests upon the liquid ether, as his native element, whither nature had designed him to ascend. The phenomena are replete with meaning to the eye of wisdom. By popular applause, by confusion and turmoil, the human insect is often borne for a time aloft, to be dashed about, and to fall : the man who, rising far above his fellows, and basking in the full beams of glory and victory, rests there placid and immoveable as the condor, is the true and mighty son of natnre: his strength is from within.

Paraphrase, using the simplest language you can. Parse the words in italics.

2. Give the exact meanings of ;

Party-spirit, sanguine, rejoinder, inclemency, tawny, dwindle, riven, myriad, mimic, cycle, bonfire, prototype, responsive.

3. Explain :

(a) Man is obedient to the primitive commission, "have dominion over the Earth and subdue it."

(b) Science was put in the place of God; the light of the Earth was deemed to have eclipsed the light from heaven.

(c) The world would be stocked with imperfection and deformity.

(d) The Dutch breed is good for the draught.

(e) Let not that balance of justice which corruption could not alter one hair's breadth, be altogether disturbed by sensibility.

(f) One who is master of method.

4. What rule can you give for the formation of the

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