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THE LOGICAL PROPOSITION. 67
EXERCISE II.
The following- are examples illustrating 3 and 4.
Express the following propositions in logical form :
(1) (a) The quality of mercy is not strained.
(b) Some have greatness thrust upon them.
(c) What is not practicable is not desirable.
(d) Hypocrisy delights in the most sublime specula
tions. [St A.]
(2) (a) Many were absent.
(b) Any excuse will not suffice.
(c) All knowledge is but remembrance.
(d} St Andrews is the oldest university
(3) (a)
[St A.]
It is never too late to mend.
(b) They also serve who only stand and wait.
(c) Only ignorant persons hold such opinions.
in Scotland
(d} Few books in Logic are easy reading. [St A.]
(4) (a) No admittance here except for officials.
(b) The old paths are best.
(c) Luck has been known to desert a man.
(d) Trespassers are not always prosecuted. [St A.]
(5) (a) For every wrong there is a legal remedy.
(b) Not every advice is a safe one.
(c) The object of war is durable peace.
(d) Improbable events happen almost every day.
[St A.]
(6) (a) The longest road comes to an end.
(b) Only Protestant princes can sit upon the throne of
England.
(c) Unasked advice is seldom acceptable.
(d) Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. [E.]
(7) (a) Knowledge is power.
(b} Two wrongs do not make a right.
(c) Custom blunts sensibility.
(d) More haste, less speed.
(8) (a) It is only the bold who are lucky.
(b) Those who escape are very few.
(c} No one is admitted except on business.
(d) It cannot be that none will fail. [C.]