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The Professors at the College, who, by the way, were the most 

 shining lights that England could produce, also appear to have 

 suffered from the illusion that we were a cut above the usual run 

 of men, perhaps only a little lower than the angels ; for they encom- 

 passed sea and land in order to produce the most extraordinary 

 questions, and these they invited us to answer. 



I should be curious to know how king Solomon would have ggt 

 on, had the Queen of Sheba taken a fancy to set such questions at 

 her historical examination at Jerusalem ; and I am sure my 

 Marlborough master, who failed to hammer the three concords into 

 me, would have paused in wonder, and thought I must have acquired 

 celestial light somehow, could he have seen me armed with a 

 quire of foolscap and a bundle of pens, sitting down with the 

 following questions on the table, which I was supposed to answer 

 before being qualified for administering justice 



" To the poor Indian, whose untutored mind 

 Sees God in clouds and hears him in the wind." 



1. Is there any limit theoretically to the length of the shorter 



leg of a siphon ? 



2. Find the centre of gravity of a triangle. 



3. Distinguish between the geocentric and heliocentric place of 



a heavenly body. 



4. Give the substance of Miiller's remarks on the stjde of 



Sophocles. 



5. Give the laws of the metre in which the Parabasis of 



Comedy was written. 



6. In what manner has Strabo divided the Gymnosophists ? 



7. Point out any passages in the Tusculan disputations which 



throw any light on the nature and object of the Eleusinian 

 mysteries. 



8. What account has Bishop Butler given of the passion of 



Resentment as distinct from all the abuses of it, and what 

 conclusion has he drawn from that account ? 



