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(2) There are Irishmen and Irishmen.
(3) Men only disagree, Of creatures rational.
(4) Some wise men are poor.
(5) No Popes are some fallible beings.
(6) Some step-mothers are not unjust.
(7) The most original of the Roman poets was Lucretius.
(8) Some of the immediate inferences are all the forms of conversion.
CHAPTER VI.
1. Give six examples of terms standing one to another as genus to species.
2. To which of the heads of predicables would you refer the following statements? And why?
(1) A circle is the largest s.p.a.ce that can be contained by one line.
(2) All the angles of a square are right angles.
(3) Man alone among animals possesses the faculty of laughter.
(4) Some fungi are poisonous.
(5) Most natives of Africa are negroes.
(6) All democracies are governments.
(7) Queen Anne is dead.
CHAPTER VII.
1. Define the following terms--
Sun inn-keeper tea-pot hope anger virtue bread diplomacy milk carpet man death sincerity telescope mountain poverty Senate novel.
2. Define the following terms as used in Political Economy--
Commodity barter value wealth land price money labour rent interest capital wages credit demand profits.
3. Criticise the following as definitions--
(1) Noon is the time when the shadows of bodies are shortest.
(2) Grammar is the science of language.
(3) Grammar is a branch of philology.
(4) Grammar is the art of speaking and writing a language with propriety.
(5) Virtue is acting virtuously.
(6) Virtue is that line of conduct which tends to produce happiness.
(7) A dog is an animal of the canine species.
(8) Logic is the art of reasoning.
(9) Logic is the science of the investigation of truth by means of evidence.
(10) Music is an expensive noise.
(11) The sun is the centre of the solar system.
(12) The sun is the brightest of those heavenly bodies that move round the earth.
(13) Rust is the red desquamation of old iron.
(14) Caviare is a kind of food.
(15) Life is the opposite of death.
(16) Man is a featherless biped.
(17) Man is a rational biped.
(18) A gentleman is a person who has no visible means of subsistence.
(19) Fame is a fancied life in others' breath.
(20) A fault is a quality productive of evil or inconvenience.
(21) An oligarchy is the supremacy of the rich in a state.
(22) A citizen is one who is qualified to exercise deliberative and judicial functions.
(23) Length is that dimension of a solid which would be measured by the longest line.
(24) An eccentricity is a peculiar idiosyncrasy.
(25) Deliberation is that species of investigation which is concerned with matters of action.
(26) Memory is that which helps us to forget.
