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Subjects of Examination in the English Language appointed by the Senate of the Calcutta University for the Entrance Examination of December 1865

1863

He appears to have left Cambridge some time before the 8th of August 1665 when the College was dismissed' on acount of the plague and it was therefore in the autumn of that year and not in that of 1666 that the apple is said to have fallen from the tree at Woolsthorpe and suggested to Newton the idea of gravity. [...] Committed to the maintenance of his adopted errors and with his mental vision even unfitted in some measure for the perception of the truth he might in that case have been the last to take in the full brightness of the day the breaking of which he had been the first to descry. [...] Originally all human knowledge was nothing more than the knowledge of a comparatively small number of such simple facts as those from which Galileo deduced the use of the pendulum for the measurement of time and Newton the explanation of the sytem of the heavens. [...] Assuming the alloy when it was found that there was an alloy to be silver the exact proportions in which the two metals had been mixed together would be an4G THE PIIIIErMankili easy and immediate d rison of the bulk of the crown aster' hat has been described with that of the gold on the one hand and that of the same weig on the other. [...] We have seen that the principal record of the doctrines of this philosopher was one of the works edited by Heyne while at Dresden; and he used to relate that his fortitude amid the difficulties that he had to struggle with at the time was not a little strengthened and upheld by the precepts of severe virtue; and determined endurance which he found in the system of the old Stoic.
education
Pages
138
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140522
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Extracts from the Pleasures of Hope with the Rainbow
1-16 Thomas Campbell view
A Letter From Italy
17-22 Joseph Addison view
Burial of Sir John Moore
23-24 Charles Wolfe view
On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture
25-28 William Cowper view
The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties
29-97 L. Craik view
On Time its Value; from the Student’s Manual
98-112 John Todd view
Extracts from Tales of a Grandfather
113-135 Walter Scott view

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