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adjective ALMANACK ARITHMETIC avez avez-vous become bien brother called carbonic acid Cassell's Cicero circle common divisor common multiple compounds CONJUGATION dative denominator denotes DEPONENT VERBS distance divided drawing earth English equal Euclid EXERCISE EXERCISES.-LATIN-ENGLISH expression fait father fear feet figure fissure fraction French Freund George Cruikshank give given numbers greater greatest common divisor Greek habe ILLUSTRATED Lake Erie language Latin least common multiple LESSONS letter magnitude means meridian miles mind Monsieur noun person plane plural preposition present pronoun pupils qu'il quotient quum RESUME OF EXAMPLES right angles river rocks sein seinen sides signifies Socratic method straight line student suffixes sunt supine surface term thee things thou tion triangle UNCLE TOM'S CABIN verb viel vowel Vulgar Fractions wish words write
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Page 208 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 56 - The greatest common divisor of two or more numbers, is the greatest number which will divide them without a remainder. Thus 6 is the greatest common divisor of 12, 18, 24, and 30.
Page 78 - Being (thought I), who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? — surely not ! Reflections like these, would not allow me to despair. I started up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand ; and I was not disappointed.
Page 78 - I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection, and I confess that my spirits began to fail me.
Page 322 - The ladies who carry fans under me are drawn up twice a-day in my great hall, where they are instructed in the use of their arms, and exercised by the following words of command : Handle your fans, Unfurl your fans, Discharge your fans, Ground your fans, Recover your fans, Flutter your fans.
Page 57 - The least common multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which can be divided by each of them without a remainder. Thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 4 and 6, for it is the least number which can be exactly divided by them.
Page 74 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 322 - WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be intire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise of the fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at court.
Page 355 - If equal quantities be divided by the same, or by equal quantities, the quotients will be equal. 5. If the same quantity be both added to and subtracted from another, the value of the latter will not be altered.
Page 334 - Why conduct my understanding with such endless care ? and what is the use of so much knowledge ?" What is the use of so much knowledge ? — What is the use of so much life ? what are we to do with the seventy years of existence allotted to us ? and how are we to live them out to the last?