In what line of writing was Tacitus, Locke, Priestley, 254 What societies have we in England to promote learning and literature? - T 485 Who have been the chief historians and Roman writers the English language? 86 What are the names of the chief epic poems? 457 Who have been the chief poets of Italy, France, ază England? 458 In what department of literature have Churchill, Clarendon, Cunningham, Young, Cowper, Watts, Paley, Defoe, and Burke, been chiefly distinguished ? 259 What is the object of literary societies? 460. What are the chief divisions of poetical and prosé compositions? dog að vaka Miscellaneous Questions. 461 How many boys and girls are there in England and Wales between 6 and 14 years of age, supposing they form one-sixth of the whole population, and are in equal numbers? 469 Make a drawing on a large scale of the parts of a fortification, and write their names against the severa parts. 463 Describe the second order of each class of animated na ture. Extract and cast up into one total the population of al the countries in the world, and sad one hundred mil lions for the unarranged or unclassed parts, chiefly Africa, America, West Indies, and South Seas-T tal 784 Millions. 465 What proportion is the English yard of the distance from the equator to the north pole? 466 When was America discovered, by whom, and what were the consequences of the discovery? 467, What nation avoids killing and eating living anneala, and prefers vegetables and fruit? 468 What are the different descriptions of property in Eng. bagaland ? VIN 409 How is thread prepared for the weaver ? 5 470 What are the materials of which houses are built? 100471 Point out on the print of the solar system the circles or orbits of each of the planets, and name them, 472 Write out neatly the characters or hieroglyphics which stand for the planets and the signs of the zodiac. ge 473 How many degrees is it from the ant-arctic circle to the tropic of cancer? 474 The stars on the celestial globe being expressed by the first letter of the Greek alphabet, write out the first ten of the small letters, and call them backward and forward? 475 Transcribe a description of the animal which is at the head of the creation? 476 What are the principal breeds of oxen and sheep? rea477 Are wheat, potatoes, acorns, apples, and blackberries, natives of Great Britain P 478 What is effected by lifting up the handle of a pump, and what by pulling it down again?—Transcribe and repeat. 470 How many degrees is it from the Pleiades to the belt of Orion, and how far from the belt of Orion to the north pole star? 480 If the pupil has learned to draw, let him copy one of the euts per day, at pages 119, 123, 124, and 125, and write out their descriptions. 481 What are the attributes of God ?---Transcribe and re peat. 482 What is the moral sense? 483 What is effected by the constitution of England Re peat. 484 Describe the gradations of animated nature, Transcribe and repeat. 485 What are the component parts of air and water ? 486 Draw the representation of the planet Saturn soe 487 What did Julius Caesar effect for the English * cribe and repeat. 488 What are the advantages of society. Trans 480 What is the general rule in regard to the rotation of истори? H babe suff doc p96') old. 400 How many teeth has a man, and how many species of insects are there? 491 What classes of plants are those in which there are nine stamens, in which the stamens and pistils are invisible, and what are the vegetables of the greatest value to daw a man? 492 How can you demonstrate the motion of the moon? 493 How many oceans and continents are there, and what are their names? 404@What is beneath our feet towards the centre of the globe? 495 What seems to be the proper object of vegetables?-Re peat. 496 What is the distance in miles of the arctic and antartic circle? 497 How are sailors able to tell where they are by the celes#tial bodies P A 498 Describe the different species of sophistical arguments? 499 How many kinds of shells are there? 500 Where are the West Indies, and what are they? 501 What are the names of the great rivers in Asia? and point out such of them as are laid down on the map. $502 What familiar object is the motion of the earth like ? 503 Draw the phases of the moon when she is on either side of the earth, and in the midway between her conjunetion with, and opposition to the sun. 504 How much of the earth does the sun illumine, at one time? 505 What will children learn from viewing insects through a microscope? and repeat any appropriate lines, 606 Which religious sects are those that deny the authority of bishops, and preach extemporaneously? 2607 In what parts of the world are the inhabitants of pigmy, and in what of gigantic stature, and what are their * proportions ↑ 508 Where are the largest lakes in the world, and is there ames I any thing remarkable near them? a 509 Write out Paul's oration before Agrippa (Acts, chap. XXIV.) and distinguish its rhetorical parts by placing their names before each. 510 Copy out the song of Moses, Exodus rv. and dis to swaginguish by words the figures of rhetoric as you proceed. 611 Transcribe and repeat the different branches of the study of language, and describe them. 512 Transcribe the five rules of conception. 613 What are the means of attaining knowledge? 514 What are the prevailing religions in the world? 315 What are the habits of ants? 516 Continue the series of logarithms at 565, from 6 to 7, 8, 9, and 10. Shew also that the logarithms of 9, or 1 and 8 added together, are equal to the product of the numbers corresponding with 1 and 8. 517 Who has the power of pardoning criminals in England after the sentence of the law has been passed on them? 518 What are the obligations of man in society ? 519 What is a polygon? 620 How many inhabitants of one city did the last eruption of Mount Etna destroy? 521 Make out an account of earths as they exist in layers, and as they are chemically considered; also of mine. rals of the four classes, and of rocks as they are divided into five classes, the whole forming a complete view of the mass of the earth, 522 Trace the map of the world on thin paper, or copy it as neatly as possible, as a certain means of being perfect in geography. 523 Describe the silk manufactory and silk worms; and draw the eggs, the worm, the chrysalis, and butterfly, given at page 200. 624 Whence come sugar, oil, and Indian rubber ? 525 Briefly describe the animal senses in verse and prose. 526 How are plants nourished? 527 How are animals nourished? N. B.-The answers to the two preceding questions must be combined, and be full and complete. 528 How is it that the perpendicular rays of the sun do not dissolve the snow on the tops of the mountains under the equator? 529 What poet describes so accurately the revolutions of day and night, and of the seasons? 530 3hew by experiment in the sun, or before a fire or candle, the cause of increased heat at different seasons. 1 531 Give some instances of the subdivision of labour, and of the utility of it. 532 Transcribe a description of the ship, its apparatus, &c. 533 What is the fundamental principle of the mechanical powers? 534 What is the fundamental principle of trade? 535 What is the essential difference between vegetables and animals? 536 When is war necessary? 537 What was the origin of architecture? 538 Name the different species of grain and grasses culti vated by English farmers, and mention the use of inclosures. 539 What was the origin of money? 540 Enumerate the various ranks of peers, of the church, of the law, and of the army and navy. 541 What in general remains when any part of the air is deprived of its oxygen? 542 On what principle is trigonometry founded? 543 What are the three principal contrivances by which varied melody is given to sound? 544 Copy the map of the world, and substitute the ancient names in 653 for the modern ones now in the map as far as given. 545 Write out the names of the painters of the great schools in parallel columns, with heads distinguishing the schools. 546 Write out the illustrious names in history, under the heads of their respective countries. 547 Write out, under the heads of their respective countries, the names of great authors, poets, &c.; distinguishing by subheads their walks in literature, when so distinguished in the work. 548 How long was it from the building of Rome to the death of Cæsar, and from the battle of Marathon to the battle of Marengo P 549 If a string is 120 parts, and its octave GO, with the intermediate parts of lengths as indicated in 621, and 622, what will be the length of an octave higher than that of 60, and of its intermediate notes ? 550 Read a +2—6y=c+y2—√a. |