Chapter 52
(17) Not all your efforts can save him.
(18) The whale is a mammal.
(19) Cotton is grown in Cyprus.
(20) An honest man's the n.o.blest work of G.o.d.
(21) No news is good news.
(22) No friends are like old friends.
(23) Only the ignorant affect to despise knowledge.
(24) All that trust in Him shall not be ashamed.
(25) All is not gold that glitters.
(26) The sun s.h.i.+nes upon the evil and upon the good.
(27) Not to go on is to go back.
(28) The king, minister, and general are a pretty trio.
(29) Amongst dogs are hounds.
(30) A fool is not always wrong.
(31) Alexander was magnanimous.
(32) Food is necessary to life.
(33) There are three things to be considered,
(34) By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased.
(35) Money is the miser's end.
(36) Few men succeed in life.
(37) All is lost, save honour.
(38) It is mean to hit a man when he is down.
(39) Nothing but coolness could have saved him.
(40) Books are generally useful.
(41) He envies others' virtue who has none himself.
(42) Thankless are all such offices.
(43) Only doctors understand this subject.
(44) All her guesses but two were correct.
(45) All the men were twelve.
(46) Gossip is seldom charitable.
2. Give six examples of indefinite propositions, and then quantify them according to their matter.
3. Compose three propositions of each of the following kinds:--
(1) with common terms for subjects;
(2) with abstract terms for subjects;
(3) with singular terms for predicates;
(4) with collective terms for predicates;
(5) with attributives in their subjects;
(6) with abstract terms for predicates.
CHAPTER IV.
1. Point out what terms are distributed or undistributed in the following propositions:--
(1) The Chinese are industrious.
(2) The angle in a semi-circle is a right angle.
(3) Not one of the crew survived.
(4) The weather is sometimes not propitious.
The same exercise may be performed upon any of the propositions in the preceding list.
2. Prove that in a negative proposition the predicate must be distributed.
CHAPTER V.
Affix its proper symbol to each of the following propositions:--
(1) No lover he who is not always fond.