Name. 63. Magellan, 64. Messina, 65. Malacca, 66. Molucca, 67. Macassar, 68. Otranto, 69. Ormus, 70. Pentland, 71. Palk, 72. Skager Rack, 73. Sunda, 74. The Narrows, 75. The Minch, 76. The Sound, 77. Torres, Connects. Atlantic O. w. Pacific O. Mediter. S. w. Mediter. S. Bay of Bengal w. China S. Indian O. with Indian O. Java Sea w. Celebes Sea. Adriatic S. w. Mediter. S. Persian G. w. Arabian S. North Sea w. Atlantic O. Indian O. w. B. of Bengal. Cattegat Ch. w. North S. Indian O. with Java Sea. New York Bay w. Atl. O. Atlantic O. w. Atlantic O. Cattegat Ch. w. Baltic Sea. Indian O. with Indian O. Separates. Terra-del-Fuega I. f. S. A. Sicily I. from Italy. Malay Pen. fr. Sumatra. Celebes I. from Celebes I. Java I. from Sumatra. Turkey from Italy. Arabia from Persia. Orkney I. from Scotland. Ceylon from India. Denmark from Norway. Java Island f. Sumatra. Staten Island fr. Long Isl. Hebrides Isl. fr. Scotland. Denmark from Sweden. New Guinea f. Australia. SOCIAL HOURS LANGUAGE AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE. GIVE IT UP HOME GULTURE TEST EXERCISES. 1. What is Philology? 2. How many languages are there in the world? 3. Which languages are ordinarily spoken of as classical? 4. What is a Dialect? 5. What is Literature? 6. What is the origin of Literature? 7. Of what does ancient literature chiefly consist? 8. What are the best specimens of ancient Hebrew literature? 9. What is the Talmud? 10. What are the languages in which the Bible was originally written? 11. What was the Septuagint? 12. What is meant by the Vulgate ? 13. When was the King James' authorized version of the Bible executed? 14. When was the New Revision published? 15. What is the Vedas? 16. Who was Confucius ? 17. What is the Koran ? 18. What is known as the "Golden Age" of literature? 19. What is meant by the "liberty of the press?" 20. Who were the "Seven Wise Men of Greece" noted for their sagacity as philosophers? What are the distinguishing characteristics of the following leaders of 40. What was the most brilliant period of Roman literature? What may be said of the following distinguished leaders of Roman literature 53. How long did Latin continue to be the language of Literature after the dissolution of the Roman Empire? 54. Who were the Fathers of the Church? 55. Who was Thomas à Kempis ? 56. When was the period in which Arabic literature and learning flourished? 57. What was the origin of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments? 58. Who were the Saints? 59. What were Patron Saints? 60. When did Italian literature commence ? 61. Who was Dante? 62. Who was Galileo? 63. Who was Galvani? 64. Who was Quevedo? 65. Who was Camoens ? 66. When did French literature commence ? What may be said of the following distinguished leaders of French literature 67. John Calvin, 68. Montaigne, 71. Fontenelle, 72. Voltaire, 75. Guizot, 76. Thiers, 69. Francis de Sales, 70. Lafontaine, 73. Jean Jacques Rousseau, 77. De Tocqueville, 74. Baroness de Staël 78. Victor Hugo? Holstein, 79. When did the classical German literature begin? What can you say of the following noted writers and philosophers of Germany 80. Nicholas Copernicus, 81. Kepler, 82. Lavater, 83. Goethe, 86. Karl Wilhelm Humboldt, 89. Baron Liebig, 84. Klopstock, 87. Alexander Humboldt, 85. Schiller, 88. Niebuhr, 91. Franz Joseph Gall 92. What noted names are found in modern German literature? 93. What is the language of the Netherlands? 94. Who was Karamsin ? 95. Who was Pushkin? 96. What is the literature of the Magyars? 97. Who was Oehlenschläger? 1. It is the science which treats of the nature and relations of languages. 2. Nearly three hundred, but many of these are so similar that they inay be considered as dialects of the same language. 3. The ancient Greek and Latin languages. It is also customary to speak of the Sanscrit, as the classical language of India. 4. It is the peculiar or local form of a language. The Low-land Scotch speech, as an example, is regarded as a dialect of the English. 5. The collective body of productions embracing the entire result of knowledge and fancy, as Poetry, Romance, History, Biography, and Essays. 6. Egypt had her literature in the form of Hieroglyphics; these characters, 685 in number, were the germ of an alphabet, and were in part phonetic, but it was reserved for the Phoenicians to adopt the device of determining the few elementary sounds of language and appropriating one distinctive character to represent each sound. 7. Of the writings of the Hebrews, Chinese, Hindoos, Greeks, and Romans. 8. The books of the Old Testament. 9. The books which comprehend the Jewish law, both written and oral. 10. The Old Testament was mainly written in Hebrew, but partly in Chaldee, and the New Testament in Greek. 11. The Greek version of the Old Testament, so called because it was either sanctioned by the supreme council of the Jewish nation, which consisted of about seventy members, or because, according to the tradition, seventy members were employed in the translation. |