THE EXAMINATION PAPERS FOR THE Taglorian Scholarship and Exhibition, in German, MICHAELMAS TERM, 1880. EXAMINER pro hac vice: OSCAR FRANKFURTER, Ph. D. AND EXAMINER ex officio: F. MAX MÜLLER, M. A. Professor of Comparative Philology. Oxford: TAYLORIAN SCHOLARSHIP AND EXHIBITION. MICHAELMAS TERM, 1880. I. MONDAY, NOV. 29, 10 A.M.-1 P.M. Essay in German. Über Herder's Einfluss auf die Deutsche Poesie. II. MONDAY, NOV. 29, 2-5 P.M. Translate into German. Many causes combined to produce this singular result, that a man of the extraordinary genius of Frederick, and possessed of every advantage of birth, office and opportunity, should have had so little direct effect upon the world. It is not enough to attribute his failure to the many and great faults of his moral character. Doubtless they were one cause among others. But a man who influences future ages is not necessarily a good man. No man ever had a more direct influence on the future history of the world than Lucius Cornelius Sulla. The man who crushed Rome's last rival, who saved Rome in her last hour of peril, who made her indisputably and for ever the head of Italy, did a work greater than the work of Caesar. Yet the name of Sulla is one at which we almost instinctively shudder. So the faults and crimes of Frederick, his irreligion, his private licentiousness, his barbarous cruelty, would not of themselves be enough to hinder him from leaving his stamp upon his age in the way that other ages have been marked by the influence of men certainly not worse than he. Still, to exercise any great and lasting influence on the world, a man must be, if not virtuous, at least capable of objects and efforts which have something in common with virtue. Sulla stuck at no crime which could serve his country or his party, but it was for his |