Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) For some say it is one of those things which are palpable and apparent, as pleasure or wealth or honor; in fact, some one thing, some another; nay, often times the same man gives a different account of it, for when ill, he calls it health, when poor, wealth; and conscious of their own ignorance, men admire those who talk grandly and above their comprehension.
(B) To use the more common form, “happiness (says Aristotle) is what both the multitude and the refined few call it, and living well' and 'doing well' they conceive to be the same with 'being happy'; but about the nature of this happiness men dispute, and the multitude do not in their account of it agree with wise."
(C) Now, what is this very special Good?
(D) There is pretty general agreement that is eudaimonia, a Greek word which is usually translated as Happiness, although a possibly better rendering would be well-being or Welfare.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) After some pages descriptive of the liberal Man, who will give and spend on proper objects, and in proper proportion, in great things and small alike, and all this with pleasure to himself," we come to a portrait of the Magnificent Man, which is doubtless based on what Aristotle had observed of the great aristocratic, popularity seeking spenders of Athens.
(B) "The expenses of the Magnificent Man are great fitting: such also are his works."
(C) The kind of expenditure which he will incur will be what is called honorable, such as dedicatory offering to the gods, and furnishing their temples, and sacrifices, and in like manner everything that has reference to the deity, and all such public matters as are objects of honorable ambition, as when men think it is their duty to furnish a chorus for the stage splendidly, or fit out and maintain a three-decker for the navy, or give a great public feast... It is characteristic of the Magnificent Man to do magnificently whatever he is about."
(D) He will consider how a thing may be done most beautifully and fittingly, rather than for how much.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Comparisons between Vergil and his great Greek prototype, Homer, are inevitable, although academic admirers of the Latin poet find them odious, arguing that Homer composed for an audience that knew only the epic on the grand scale and that his poetry was meant to be heard, not read.
(B) Nevertheless it can hardly be disputed that poetic merits of the Aeneid are far below those of the Iliad, lacking the unity of purpose and integrity of the construction of the earlier work as well as its truth and simplicity.
(C) It is also true that Homer's society was relatively uncomplicated, with a nobility not unlike the barons of England's feudal ages, whereas Vergil's civilization was complex and he wrote for scholarly and thoroughly educated readers.
(D) Perhaps a model, however masterly, can never quite capture the spontaneous freshness of a glorious original.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) But later, when scholars had deciphered the cuneiform inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria, the historicity of a large part of the Old Testament was vindicated.
(B) The story of Abraham, for instance, is now to be seen much more than a folk tale, for the discoveries in the 'thirties of the Amorite Kingdom ruled by the smiling-faced Mari kings have unearthed cities such as Harun and Nathor mentioned in the Biblical narrative, but totally unknown till they were unearthed'.
(C) By the end of the century, when the work of geologists and physicists had begun to enlarge man's knowledge about the beginning of the physical world, the Bible as history, began to be considered largely as fable or folk-lore; by Christians, it was thought divinely inspired but still basically mythical.
(D) To the simple-minded then, as, in past centuries, the story of the Old Testament appeared as exact, literal history.
(E) When Queen Victoria came to the throne, it was generally believed that the world was created in $4004$ BC.
(F) In fifty years or so, when so much has been discovered by archaeology about the Middle East and Egypt, the claim of the whole Old Testament story to be a valuable historical record has been more and more accepted.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) When the Meccans challenged Mohammed to perform a miracle as proof of his Divine mission, he appealed, boldly and confidently, to the book which was taking shape under his supervision.
(B) It was indeed a miracle, the miracle of miracles, this book that had come down from heaven...
(C) So wonderful a work (he maintained), written in such superlatively beautiful language and expressing the most profound and majestic of religious truths, could surely not have been written by mere man, most certainly not by such an unlettered man as he was himself.
(D) The book in question was Koran, as we generally call it, although a more correct rendering is Quran, which is an Arabic word meaning reading, lecture, or recitation, or perhaps that which ought to be read.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Fortunately, the lack of details available about the life of Shakespeare does not apply to Dante, who is revealed to us as the hero of one of the strangest and most beautiful love stories in the world.
(B) If a limit may be set to the period of medieval literature, Dante's Divine Comedy may be said to have brought it to an end in a glorious climax.
(C) of all the great figures, who embellish the pageant of literature, Dante shares an equal place with Shakespeare.
(D) Here all the greatest and best in thought and work that flowered in the millennium between the fall of the Roman Empire and the close of the thirteenth century, is given new vitality and endowed with poetic passion.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) It was invented by More, and is a reminder of the fact that it was one of the most famous figures of revivals of Learning that was inspired by the rediscovery of the ancient classical civilization of Greece and Rome after the long night of the middle ages.
(B) Of all the cities that men have built in the cloudlands, the most famous is the one described in a small book written by the English scholar-statesman, Sir Tomas More, at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
(C) It is called Utopia, and so famous it is that ever since all similar imaginary commonwealths have been referred to as Utopias.
(D) It comes from the Greek words, ou meaning not, and topas, a place, and so means literally, nowhere.
(E) The word is a made-up one.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) What an audacious declaration it is, this of Jean Jacques Rousseau, that “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains!".
(B) No matter that the critics in every generation have insisted that the first part of the declaration is untrue since men come into the world carrying a heavy burden of heredity and that as for the second part, there are quite a lot of places in the world nowadays where chains have long ceased to form part of the political machinery.
(C) No matter: it has a splendid, fine-sounding ring about it, and our political philosophy would be ever so much duller without it.
(D) When he first spat it out, it shocked and shattered the complacency of the eighteenth century, and it has been an inspiration and encouragement to the young and hopeful ever since.