The Acting Teacher's and Student's in Training Guide and Text Book for Certificate Examinations1873 - Student teachers |
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AC is equal adjective adverb America angle BAC Arctic are,-the Atlantic bank bisect breadth British capital cent centre chief towns circle circumference coast coast-line colony defeated diameter district divided Edward elevated England English English Channel equation exported exterior angle feet Find Comp Find the area flowing fraction France French given straight line gnomon greater Henry Henry VI Himalayas improper fraction India island Isle join Junction king Lake land length Let ABC maize Mediterranean miles long mountain mouth noun Ocean parallel parallelogram Parliament Pennine perpendicular Port Prince principal produced pronoun quantity rectangle rectangle contained reign right angles rises river ruled Russia Scotland Scots sentence side Spain squares of AC table-land tributary twice the rectangle valley verb vulgar fractions Wales whole
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Page 43 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle...
Page 13 - To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line, it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to the straight line BC.
Page 9 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 43 - And all that freedom's highest aims can reach, Is but to lay proportion'd loads on each. Hence, should one order disproportion'd grow, Its double weight must ruin all below. O then how blind to all that truth requires, Who think it freedom when a part aspires! Calm is my soul, nor apt to rise in arms, Except when...
Page 14 - THE straight lines which join the extremities of two equal and parallel straight lines, towards the same parts, are also themselves equal and parallel.
Page 46 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength > Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Page 12 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 38 - AB; but things which are equal to the same are equal to one another...
Page 12 - If a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another . and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite upon the same side ; and likewise the two interior angles upon the same side together equal to two right angles.
Page 35 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.