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... military history of Rome in the period A.C. 510-367 . 7. Describe carefully the system of provincial ad- ministration employed by Rome in the sixth and seventh centuries of the city . What securities were there against the abuse of ...
... military history of Rome in the period A.C. 510-367 . 7. Describe carefully the system of provincial ad- ministration employed by Rome in the sixth and seventh centuries of the city . What securities were there against the abuse of ...
Sida 5
... military tactics of the nations of antiquity . 5. Sketch briefly the struggle between Kings and Parliaments from the reign of Henry III . to the begin- ning of that of Charles I. 6. Compare England and France at the end of the fifteenth ...
... military tactics of the nations of antiquity . 5. Sketch briefly the struggle between Kings and Parliaments from the reign of Henry III . to the begin- ning of that of Charles I. 6. Compare England and France at the end of the fifteenth ...
Sida 28
... military history of Rome down to the year 130 B.C. ? Write a short account of the Second Samnite , or of the Second Punic War . 4. Give an account of the chief Roman magistracies in the time of Cicero . 5. Describe a Roman triumph ...
... military history of Rome down to the year 130 B.C. ? Write a short account of the Second Samnite , or of the Second Punic War . 4. Give an account of the chief Roman magistracies in the time of Cicero . 5. Describe a Roman triumph ...
Sida 35
... military point of view . 9. Account for : ( a ) the long resistance of Jugurtha to the Romans ; ( b ) Bonaparte's failure in his Russian campaign ; ( c ) the overthrow of the English in Affghan- istan . 10. Explain the following : the ...
... military point of view . 9. Account for : ( a ) the long resistance of Jugurtha to the Romans ; ( b ) Bonaparte's failure in his Russian campaign ; ( c ) the overthrow of the English in Affghan- istan . 10. Explain the following : the ...
Sida 54
... . 6. Give some account of the most distinguished mediæval travellers , and of the extent of country which h visited . 7. Estimate and exemplify the military genius of Belisarius , 54 Historical and General Questions .
... . 6. Give some account of the most distinguished mediæval travellers , and of the extent of country which h visited . 7. Estimate and exemplify the military genius of Belisarius , 54 Historical and General Questions .
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Questions and Exercises for Classical Scholarships, 2nd Division Palaestra Oxoniensis Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2015 |
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Sida 79 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Sida 52 - Could trammel up' the consequence, and catch, With his surcease,* success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, . But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come. — But, in these cases, We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor : This even-handed justice Commends11 the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Sida 75 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Sida 48 - And hang their heads with sorrow ; good grows with her, In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants ; and sing 35 The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Sida 2 - For as water will not ascend higher than the level of the first springhead from whence it descendeth, so knowledge derived from Aristotle, and exempted from liberty of examination, will not rise again higher than the knowledge of Aristotle.
Sida 33 - In which methodical course, it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times for memory's sake to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united the whole body of their perfected knowledge, like the last embattling of a Roman legion.
Sida 128 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.
Sida 63 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Sida 63 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Sida 74 - As the births of living creatures at first are illshapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.