Report of the commissioners, Volume 8

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G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1868 - Education
 

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Page 519 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 581 - English language, including grammar and composition ; Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions ; Algebra, including simple equations ; Geometry, first two books of Euclid ; Latin, translation and grammar.
Page 83 - PROB. from a given point to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line : it is required to draw from the point A a straight line equal to BC.
Page 198 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 371 - University authorities it was decided that the memorial should take the form of a Tablet similar to that erected in Aberdeen to the memory of Macgillivray.
Page 207 - would at once meet the aspiration of the few and raise that of the many. It would spread its net to catch boys •who want a commercial education, and having caught them, while it gave them what they wanted, would, by a process of natural selection, keep for the higher learning all who were fit for it. It would bring every boy of capacity by the age of fourteen or so in contact with the mind of a scholar, and familiarise him with the prospect of an intellectual career.
Page 80 - Problem. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length, from a given point without it.
Page 613 - Cicero almost uniformly uses inimicitice instead of the singular number. EXERCISE. In time of summer, when animals are plagued with thirst, a lion and a wild boar came to a little spring, to drink. But a dispute having arisen, which of them should drink first, and a desperate fight ensuing, the affair seemed likely to end in murder. After they had fought a considerable time, stopping for a short space, in order to take breath, they spied some vultures waiting to devour the one, which should first...
Page 80 - If two circles touch each other internally, the straight line which joins their centres, being produced, shall pass through the point of contact.
Page 581 - Candidate will be passed who cannot work the first four rules simple and compound, whatever may be his excellence in other respects. 6. Geography. Every Candidate will be required to draw from memory an outline Map showing the coast line, the chief ranges of mountains, and the chief rivers of some country to be named by the Examiners from the following list :— England, Scotland, Ireland, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australasia.

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