401 Who were the great characters distinguished in Roman history? 402 Who were the founders of the four great monar chies? 403 What length of pendulum vibrates in a second of time? 404 In what precise time does the earth return again to the same point of its orbit in revolving round the sun? 405 In how many years will the exact excess above 365 days (reckoned as a year) make an even number of days, or bring the reckoning and time equal? 406 What month is called after Juno, and what day after Friga? 407 What day of the week answers to Jovis, Solis, and Veneris? 408 What is meant by leap-year? 409 How often must a leap-year be omitted to allow for the 11 minutes 3 seconds gained every year by taking a leap-year every four years? 410 Make words for the date of the destruction of Carthage, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. 411 Is history to be relied upon ? 412 What was the origin of empires? 413 What were the ancient names of Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Spain? 414 What were the modern names of Mesopotamia, Thule, Parthia, Numidia, Epirus, and Latium? 415 What have been the great events in English history? What were the great events of Grecian and Ro416 man history? N. B. For the accurate study of History, the Student should go through Robinson's Grammar, reading, at the same time, his Ancient and Modern Histories. On Chapters xxxI. XXXII. and xxxiii. 417 Which were the superior gods in the Grecian mythology? 418 Who were the Fates, the Furies, and the Graces? 419 Who was Sinna, and who was Oden or Woden? 420 What is the point of sight in a perspective drawing? 421 What have been the great schools of painting? 422 Of what schools were Rembrandt, Reynolds, Rubens, and Raphael? 423 Draw those heraldic characters which signify the second son, the fifth son, and the sixth son? 424 In coats of arms, what signify dots; what lines from top to bottom; and what are the nine points of an escutchion? 425 What was the origin and purpose of coats of arms? 426 What are the distinctive characters of the hatchments, put in front of houses after death? 427 What is the ground plane, and what the perspective plane? 428 What is the object of perspective drawing? 429 What should be the order of practice in learning to draw ? 430 Who were Morpheus, Jupiter, Bacchus, Charon, and Bellona, among the Grecian divinities? 431 Who were the chief personages of the Persian, Hindoo, Egyptian, and northern mythologies? 432 What are the requisites of a great painter? 433 Of what schools were those famous painters Teniers, Corregio, Claude, Holbein, Gainsborough, Hogarth, and Berghem? 434 What do beasts and their postures signify in the charges of coats of arms? 435 How is the third son of a second son distinguished? 436 Who was the god of riches, who of the infernal regions, and who was the father of the Nine Muses ? 437 Who was the god of the ocean, the god of war, the goddess of wisdom, and of fertility? 438 How is the fourth son of the third house distinguished? 439 What is relief, and how should shadows fall? 440 What means a death's head on an hatchment ? 441 Under what shapes were the Egyptian divinities worshipped? Questions on Chapter xxxiv. 442 How many kinds of poetry are there, and describe them? 443 Who was the prince of poets, and who has followed in his line? 444 Who were the dramatic poets of Greece and Rome? 445 Who have been the poets of Italy and France ? 446 Who have been the famous prose writers of Spain, and who the great mathematicians of 447 Who are the historians of Rome and England? 448 What is Iambic verse? and give an example. 449 What is the effect of the cesural pause, in different situations? 450 What is the name of that verse in which the accent is on every third syllable? and give an example. 451 What are the features of English versification ? 452 Whose is the best translation of Homer, Horace, and Virgil ? 453 In what line of writing was Tacitus, Locke, Priestley, Blackstone, and Hume ? 454 What societies have we in England to promote learning and literature? 455 Who have been the chief historians and Roman writers in the English language ? 456 What are the names of the chief epic poems ? :57 Who have been the chief poets of Italy, France, and England? 458 In what department of literature have Churchill, Clarendon, Cunningham, Young, Cowper, Watts, Paley, Defoe, and Burke, been chiefly distinguished? 459 What is the object of literary societies? 460 What are the chief divisions of poetical and prose compositions? Miscellaneous Questions. 461 How many boys and girls are there in England and Wales between 6 and 14 years of age, sup posing they form one-sixth of the whole population, and are in equal numbers? 462 Make a drawing on a large scale of the parts of a fortification, and write their names against the several parts? 463 Describe the second order of each class of animated nature. 464 Extract and cast up into one total the population of all the countries of the world, and add one hundred millions for the unarranged or unclassed parts, chiefly in Africa, America, West Indies, and South Seas-Total 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 animals, and prefers vegetables and fruit ? 468 What are the different descriptions of property in England? 469 How is thread prepared for the weaver? 470 What are the materials of which houses are built? 471 Point out on the print of the solar system the cir cles 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. 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? 477 Are wheat, potatoes, acorns, apples, and blackberries, natives of Great Britain ? 478 What is effected by lifting up the handle of a pump, and what by pulling it down again ?Transcribe and repeat. 479 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 cuts per day, at pages 102, 105, 106, and 107, and write out their descriptions. 481 What are the attributes of GOD?-Transcribe and repeat. 482 What is the moral sense? 483 What is effected by the constitution of England? -Repeat. 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. 487 What did Julius Cæsar effect for the English? -Transcribe and repeat. 488 What are the advantages of society? 489 What is the general rule in regard to the rotation of crops 490 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 |