(27) Politeness is the oil that lubricates the wheels of society. (28) An acute-angled triangle is one which has an acute angle. (29) A cause is that without which something would not be. (30) A cause is the invariable antecedent of a phenomenon. (31) Necessity is the mother of invention. (32) Peace is the absence of war. (33) A net is a collection of holes strung together. (34) Prudence is the ballast of the moral vessel. (35) A circle is a plane figure contained by one line. (36) Superstition is a tendency to look for constancy where constancy is not to be expected. (37) Bread is the staff of life. (38) An attributive is a term which cannot stand as a subject. (39) Life is bottled sunshine. (40) Eloquence is the power of influencing the feelings by speech or writing. (41) A tombstone is a monument erected over a grave in memory of the dead. (42) Whiteness is the property or power of exciting the sensation of white. (43) Figure is the limit of a solid. (44) An archdeacon is one who exercises archidiaconal functions. (45) Humour is thinking in jest while feeling in earnest. CHAPTER VIII. 1. Divide the following terms-- Soldier end book church good oration apple cause school ship government letter vehicle science verse. 2. Divide the following terms as used in Political Economy-- Requisites of production, labour, consumption, stock, wealth, capital. 3. Criticise the following as divisions-- (1) Great Britain into England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. (2) Pictures into sacred, historical, landscape, and mythological. (3) Vertebrate animals into quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and reptiles. (4) Plant into stem, root, and branches. (5) Ship into frigate, brig, schooner, and merchant-man. (6) Books into octavo, quarto, green, and blue. (7) Figure into curvilinear and rectilinear. (8) Ends into those which are ends only, means and ends, and means only. (9) Church into Gothic, episcopal, high, and low. (10) Sciences into physical, moral, metaphysical, and medical. (11) Library into public and private. (12) Horses into race-horses, hunters, hacks, thoroughbreds, ponies, and mules. 4. Define and divide-- Meat, money, virtue, triangle; and give, as far as possible, a property and accident of each. PART III. CHAPTERS I-III. 1. What kind of influence have we here? The author of the Iliad was unacquainted with writing. Homer was the author of the Iliad. .'. Homer was unacquainted with writing. 2. Give the logical opposites of the following propositions-- (1) Knowledge is never useless. (2) All Europeans are civilised. (3) Some monks are not illiterate. (4) Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. (5) No material substances are devoid of weight. (6) Every mistake is not culpable. (7) Some Irishmen are phlegmatic.