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.
(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.