(1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste;
(2) No modern poetry is free from affectation;
(3) All _your_ poems are on the subject of soap-bubbles;
(4) No affected poetry is popular among people of real taste;
(5) No ancient poem is on the subject of soap-bubbles.
Univ. "poems"; a = affected; b = ancient; c = interesting; d = on the
subject of soap-bubbles; e = popular among people of real taste;
h = written by you.
=38.=
(1) All the fruit at this Show, that fails to get a prize, is the
property of the Committee;
(2) None of my peaches have got prizes;
(3) None of the fruit, sold off in the evening, is unripe;
(4) None of the ripe fruit has been grown in a hot-house;
(5) All fruit, that belongs to the Committee, is sold off in the
evening.
Univ. "fruit at this Show"; a = belonging to the Committee; b = getting
prizes; c = grown in a hot-house; d = my peaches; e = ripe; h = sold off
in the evening.
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=39.=
(1) Promise-breakers are untrustworthy;
(2) Wine-drinkers are very communicative;
(3) A man who keeps his promises is honest;
(4) No teetotalers are pawnbrokers;
(5) One can always trust a very communicative person.
Univ. "persons"; a = honest; b = pawnbrokers; c = promise-breakers;
d = trustworthy; e = very communicative; h = wine-drinkers.
=40.=
(1) No kitten, that loves fish, is unteachable;
(2) No kitten without a tail will play with a gorilla;
(3) Kittens with whiskers always love fish;
(4) No teachable kitten has green eyes;
(5) No kittens have tails unless they have whiskers.
Univ. "kittens"; a = green-eyed; b = loving fish; c = tailed;
d = teachable; e = whiskered; h = willing to play with a gorilla.
=41.=
(1) All the Eton men in this College play cricket;
(2) None but the Scholars dine at the higher table;
(3) None of the cricketers row;
(4) _My_ friends in this College all come from Eton;
(5) All the Scholars are rowing-men.
Univ. "men in this College"; a = cricketers; b = dining at the higher
table; c = Etonians; d = my friends; e = rowing-men; h = Scholars.
=42.=
(1) There is no box of mine here that I dare open;
(2) My writing-desk is made of rose-wood;
(3) All my boxes are painted, except what are here;
(4) There is no box of mine that I dare not open, unless it is full of
live scorpions;
(5) All my rose-wood boxes are unpainted.
Univ. "my boxes"; a = boxes that I dare open; b = full of live
scorpions; c = here; d = made of rose-wood; e = painted;
h = writing-desks.
=43.=
(1) Gentiles have no objection to pork;
(2) Nobody who admires pigsties ever reads Hogg's poems;
(3) No Mandarin knows Hebrew;
(4) Every one, who does not object to pork, admires pigsties;
(5) No Jew is ignorant of Hebrew.
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