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74 What is the slaping green bank called that surrounds a fortress?

75 What weight or height of quicksilver is equal to 33 Fiel

of water?

78 What is the common law ?

97 What was the origin of wars ?

78 Who make laws in England P

70 What is the loadstone, and what are its uses?

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Bo What do the English import from France and Sweden? 81 Which now is the greatest trading nation in the world, and to what countries is its trade carried on

89 In the highest wrought steel, what is the proportion be. tween the value of the original metal and the labour bestowed?

83 How many pins can one person make a-day by properly dividing the labour with others ?

84 What is the origin of trade and commerce?

85 To what part of the world are felons transported? an How were the first countries divided?

87 Who command regiments ?

88 How does the constitution of England secure liberty? au What are the mature and distinctions of property?

90 What is the principle of the construction or forts and Castles?

91 What are the several ranks of otheers in the navy ?

02 How many merchant vessels are engaged in the trade of Great Britain?

93 What are the manufactures of Sheffleht, Paisley, and Worcester ?

94 How many trades are required in the production of thẻ! Universal Preceptor ?

05 How many valves are thers in a pump, and where aro' they situated?

96 What are the prerogatives of the king?

97 What is the course of the law against a man who has

committed a crime?

98 Trace or copy the coronets of peers.

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00 What are the titles of the heads of the chaich, the law,' the navy, and

army

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"Questions on Chap. XIV.

100 How can the earth be said to be round,' when there are such high hills and great inequalities on its surface? 101 If an eclipse of the moon takes place at two in the morn ing, and by the almanac it ought to happen at London at half past ten in the evening, in what longitudẹ

is the obse ver P

102 What is the character of the English territories in India P 103 What people cos der train oil the greatest luxury P 104 On the days on which the sun passes vertical at Port Royal in Jamaica, i. e. in 18 degrees of north latitude, in what north latitude will it be uninterrupted dry i 105 What are the causes of summer heat?

106 Who are the people whom the Europeans have been used to steal and sell for slaves?

107 What are the parts of an artificial globe P

108 Who discovered America, and when?

109 Which are the Asiatic scas ?

110 How many human beinge die on the average every mibute ?

111 How many sumes are there, and point them out on the map?

112 Which is the top or upper part of the earth?

113 How many varieties are there of the human species? and let the pupil put his finger on the map towards the part of the world where each variety resides.

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114. How many degrees of west longitude can there be, or în what degrees do east and west longitude meet P 115 What are the characters of the planets, and make then with the pen P

116 What is the relative situation of the moon when it is full ? 117 What is the use of the moon ?

118 How many continents are there on the globe?

119 Repeat Chatterton's lines describing the solar system. 120 Mark the characters of the signs of the zodiac, and repeat the stanza of six lines.

121 How do you prove that the stars apparently move from / east to west?

122 How many moons are there in the solar system?

kad to the f'ted stars or the sun the farthest off, and wit is the difference?

14. What is the natural food preferred by the Gentoos? 125 Which quarter of the world abounds in wild beasts, and

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why? 126 How many counties are there in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland?

127 Which are the most populous countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ?

120 Where is the sun vertical when it is equal day and night in every part of the world?

119 Repeat Young's lines on comets.

130 What are astervida 2

131 What is a cape, and what is a strait ?

132 What are the names of the three stars in a row which shine on a winter's evening?

133 How much of the heavens can be seen at once?

134 What is the highest degree of latitude?

135 On which side of the earth is the moon during an och

of the sun?

136 What star is that in the heavens which always stands still?

197 How many tides are there in 24 hours, and what pada

sions them?

138 What occasions the blue colour of the loreena? 139 Why is man at the head of the animal creation ?

140 Point out in the map the chief countries in Europe, as enumerated at 321.

141 What are the names of the tropics, and how far nue the, tropical boundaries from each other?

142 What is the law of motion of the planets?

143 The shadow of what body occasions an eclipse of qu moon, and what is its shape?

144 When did the English colonies in America deflore therelves independant?

145 For whist purpose is a fleur-de-lis put on sm 146 What is the height of the highest mountains

moon?

147 How far are the pointers asunder, and how far fr north-pole star?

148 What are the causes of day and night, and of winter

and summer?

149 What are the distances of all the planets from the sun, and the period of their revolutions

150 In what parts of the world did Captain Cook make his discoveries, and point them out on the maps?

N. B. Since these chapters were composed, Squire's Grammar of the Elements of Astronomy has been published, and merits the attention of every Student.

Questions on Chap. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII.

151 Define the various species of sophistry.

152 What parts of a discourse are the exordium and peroration ?

153 How many verbs and adverbs are there in the English language?

154 What Greek letters stand for a, o long, o short, and ph. 155 What were the first and second parts of speech used by man?

156 What ceremonies distinguish the Quakers?

157 What is become of the descendants of Mahomet? 158 What is the name of that virtue which teaches humanity to all animals? and describe it.

169 What is the moral sense?

160 Recite Cowper's and Barbauld's lines on the Deity. 161 Define and give exemples of the figures of rhetoric, called irony and an ithesis,

162 What is the fallacia accidentis, and the argumentuni ad hominem?

163 What is the cardinal rule of politeness ?

164 What is the cardinal rule of composition?

N. B. The same author has been induced to edite a volume of Monaels of Juvenile Letters on Familiar Subjects; by copying which, he presumes young perBons may soon become expert in the necessary art of elegant letter-writing.

165 What is the cardinal rule for the attainment of happincas?

100 What was the original mode of writing, and who invented letters ?

167 What means the reductio ad absurdum, and the demon.. stration a priori ?

168 How must I divide a discourse with the best effect ?
169 What are the cardinal rules of eloquence?
170 What is a syllogism? and give an example.

171 What are the best models of pure English style?
172 What are the parts of grammar?

173 What is analysis, and what is certainty $

174 What are the respective objects of grammar, logic, and rhetoric ?

175 What is the religion of the Chinese and Hindoos ? 470 Did any seputation take place among the early Chris

tians ?

177 Describa the cardinal virtues.

178 Isto what sects are the Protestants divided?

179 How many letters are there in the Greek and Hebrew languages, and how many vowels in each?

180 For what useful purpose is language divided into parts of spet ch P

181 What are the means of preserving the English language?

182 What is the difference between conceiving of things comprehensively and extensively?

183 Where is the history of Jesus Ch'st to be found? 184 Give some examples of the present use of the ancient hieroglyphica.

185 Copy out in Greek letters the names of the Greek vowels. 186 What are the means of improving in composition P 187 Make the great and small Greek characters, for ph, ch,

and ps.

188 What has succeeded the study of logic in the Universi ties ?

189 How are we to avoid confusion in composition ? 190 From what language is the English derived ?

191 Why are Protestants so called P

192 What virtue is peculiarly possessed by parents?

193 What habitual sense qualifies man for the social state? 194 How many prepositions are there, and what is a preposition?

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