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to establish our souls in 28 a true and genuine 29 virtue, such as is like to return us fruit on that great day whereon it must be tried 50 by one all-wise and all-just.

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The women had, by this time, taken possession of the dead body, and continued the attempts to recover animation which Durward had been making use of, though with the like bad success; so that, desisting from their fruitless efforts, they seemed to abandon themselves to all the oriental expressions of grief; the women making a piteous wailing, and tearing their long black hair, while the men seemed to rend their garments, and to sprinkle dust upon their heads. They gradually became so much engaged in their mourning rites, that they bestowed no longer any attention upon Durward, of whose innocence they were probably satisfied from circumstances. — Quentin Durward.

SAME PASSAGE ADAPTED.

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The women who had, by this time, surrounded the corpse, at first endeavoured to recover animation,2 tending it in the same manner3 as the youth [had] before; yet as not even they succeeded, the affair being past cure, they turned themselves to the lamentations customary among3 barbarians, and gave way to every expression of grief,9 the women commencing a loud1o wailing, and tearing11 their

1 Ηδη. partic.

νομιζόμενα. 1ο Σύντονος.

2 Αναβιώσασθαι.

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3 Accus.

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5 * Καί. * Κατατυγχάνειν,

6 Επ ̓ ἀνηκέστῳ τῷ πράγματι. W. Gr. Gr. § 196, b.

* Παρὰ, dative.

11 Τίλλεσθαι.

7 Tà

• Παντοῖος εἶναι ὀλοφυρόμενος.

black tresses: while the men seemed to be rending 12 their clothes, and throwing dust upon their heads; 13 and, at last,1a they were so thoroughly engrossed by their mourning,15 that 16 they no longer thought anything of the youth, especially as they probably 17 guessed that he at least was guiltless 18 of the affair.

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I presume not to give my censure on this action, not knowing, as yet I do not, the bottom of it. I speak only what it appears to us without doors, till better cause be declared, and I am sure to all other nations most illegal and scandalous, I fear me barbarous, or rather scarce to be exampled among any barbarians, that a paid army should, for no other cause, thus subdue the supreme power that set them up. This, I say, other nations will judge to the sad dishonour of that army, lately so renowned for the civilest and best ordered in the world, and by us here at home, for the most conscientious. Certainly, if the great officers and soldiers of the Holland, French, or Venetian forces, should thus sit in council, and write from garrison to garrison against their superiors, they might as easily reduce the King of France, or Duke of Venice, and put the United Provinces in like disorder and confusion. Why do they not, being most of them held ignorant of true religion? Because the light of nature, the laws of human society, the reverence of their magistrates, covenants, engagements, loyalty, allegiance, keeps them in awe.-MILTON, Prose Works, Bohn's Standard Library, vol. ii. p. 103.

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SAME PASSAGE ADAPTED.

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I do not presume1 to give2 an opinion3 concerning this matter, not as yet knowing how it was contrived;5 nevertheless in what light it appears to us who are out of doors," until indeed some better cause be declared, and I well know that [it appears so] to all others also, I will state' ; it is 10 most illegal and shameless, and is almost11 barbarous, or 12 rather unprecedented 13 even among barbarians, that 14 a paid 15 army, no cause having been added,16 should subdue 17 the supreme power that set it up.1 18 In consequence of 19 this I assert, that that army will incur very 20 great reproach 21 with the rest of mankind, which heretofore all [used to admire as] most gentle 22 and well-ordered, if any other, and which, moreover, we citizens, at home 23 admired as most just. Assuredly, if the great 24 generals and soldiers of the forces of Batavia or Galatia, or the Heneti, should thus, after sitting in council,25 despatch 26 orders 27 from garrison to garrison 28 against those in command, they too, would easily pull down, in the same manner, the king 29 of the Galatians and the chief 30 of the Heneti, and disorder and confuse the United Provinces.31 Why, then, do they not act 32 thus, most of them seeming indeed 33 to have

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• Καὶ δὴ λέγω.

11 Κινδυνεύειν εἶναι.

14 El. Preface, § xiv.

perf. pass. partic. gen. abs.

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4 Κατὰ τί. Συσκευάζω,

IIpiv, infinitive. W. Gr. Gr. Eivai, with yàp, oratio obliqua. 12 Δέ. 13 Οὐδεπώποτε προϋ15 Εμμισθος.

17 Future indic.

18 Προσγίγνομαι,

18 Οἱ κύριοι καὶ

éavrηv ovvayeípavτes. The article is not repeated before the participle,

in order to identify the latter with οἱ κύριοι.

§ 659,4- 21 Αἰσχύνη. κοινῆς ἐπιβουλῆς.

28 Κατὰ φρούρια. συντέλεια.

JELF, §735, 4.

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Μέτριος.

19 'Ek. 20 Tis. JELF,

23 Οδε.

28 Γράφειν ἐπιστέλλων.
29 JELF, § 447, obs. 30 'Apxós.

24 Πάνυ. 25 'EK

27 Παράγγελσις.

31 Η Βαταυῶν 33 TE.

32 Aor.1 act. JELF, § 403, 3. Preface, p. 39.

been poorly instructed in religion ? 34 Because, by Jove, nature herself inspires 35 awe in them, and the laws established among men, their reverence 36 towards their magistrates, and oaths, and covenants, and loyalty, and allegiance.38

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ORIGINAL PASSAGE.

He was a man of long and great practice in affairs, for he and his father had served the crown successively a hundred all but one, when he was turned out of an employment. He was a dexterous man in business; he had always expedients ready at every difficulty. He had an art of speaking to all men according to their sense of things; and so drew out their secrets while he concealed his own; for words went for nothing with him. He said everything that was necessary to persuade those he spoke to that he was of their mind; and did it in so genuine a way that he seemed to speak his heart. He was always for soft counsels, and slow methods; and thought that the chief thing that a great man ought to do was, to raise his family and his kindred, who naturally stick to him; for he had seen so much of the world, that he did not depend much on friends, and so took no care in making any.Oriel Scholarship, November 1845.

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SAME PASSAGE ADAPTED.

This was a man skilled both in many and in all sorts of things; for to him, falling out of his office,2 there were a hundred years wanting one since he and his father in

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succession served the king. And he managed well the things which he might have in hand, and he encountered difficulties full of resources.10 And in conversation11 he communicated 12 with all men according to each man's personal feeling, 13 so as, concealing 14 his own, at the same time to probe 15 their secrets; 16 for he thought nothing of17 words. He was also very dexterous in persuading 18 those associating with him that he really had the same views with them,19 wherein by affectation 20 of genuineness 21 he carried along with him 22 the semblance 23 of sincerity.24 And he always recommended 25 gentle counsels 26 and slow methods; 27 and thought that a man in office ought to do this not least, to serve his family and kindred, as these would naturally prove 28 constant; for, as having had great experience of men,29 he neither thought friends trustworthy, and did not even exert himself at all30 to gain them.

4 Εφεξής.

5 Baoiλevs, without the article. JELF, § 447, obs. 8 * Προσφέρεσθαι πρός. 13 Ιδία

7 Διὰ χειρός.
Λόγοι.

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12 Ομιλεῖν.

16 Απόῤῥητα.

15 Εξετάζειν.

18 Παντοῖος ἦν πείθων.

* Διατίθημι, imperf. mid.
9"Απορα.
10 Εὐπορώτατος.
γνώμη.
14 ̓Αποκρυπτόμενος.
17 Παρ ̓ οὐδὲν ποιεῖσθαι.
φρονῶν ἐκείνοις. JELF, § 701.
Το Ξυμβιβάζω. 23 Δόκησις.
article is less abstract than the
26 Ηπίως βουλεύεσθαι.
8 Os av-yiyvouévovs. W. Gr.
πεπειραμένος τῶν ἀνθρώπων,

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strument or sounds a due

ding, is the

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