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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt:...the anti-royal party broke up. 7. Compare the political position of Francis I. with that of Henry IV. in reference (1) to the house of Austria, (2) to the position of France in European politics. 8. Give some account of the ways in which English fleets and armies were formed during the Middle Ages. 9. Enumerate the principal English cardinals, and distinguish them as to personal and political importance. 10. The life and genius of Rabelais. LXXX. 1. Examine the causes which led to the Peloponnesian War. 2. Give some account of four of the following persons: Tiberius Gracchus, Aristarchus, Herod Antipas, Augustine of Hippo, Dante, Francis Bacon, Ulfilas, Pascal, Giotto, Beethoven, Mazzini. 3. Describe: (1) the extent and character of the empire of Solomon; (2) the life and writings of Isaiah. 4. The likeness and difference between poetry and the other arts. 5. Draw a map of the Black Sea, with the approaches from the Archipelago, marking all the important places and the mouths of the rivers, with the ancient and modern names. 6. Contrast the view taken of slavery in ancient and modern times. 7. Give an account of any one of the Crusades. How far were they successful in their object, and what indirect consequences followed from them? 8. Describe the immediate and the permanent effects of the Norman conquest of England. 9. Contrast the types of national character exhibited by the Greeks and Romans. 10. Give some account of the chief Roman historians and their writings. 11. JLv(jvovs 17 iroirTiKrj iariv r) fiaviKov' Tovtwv yap oi fiev eviiKao-TOb oi Bs sKo-TariKoC sicriv. Consider these words. 12. With what fitness does Plutarch compare the lives of Demosthenes and Cicero? 13. The effect of (i) the Persian invasion, or (2) the conquests of Alexander, or (3) the...