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300 per annum Algebra angle annual increments annum appointments Arithmetic First Four Assistant Clerk Assistant Surveyor Assistants of Customs Assistants of Excise Book-keeping Boy Clerks Boy Copyists cent Civil Service Clarendon Code Class 1 Clerkships Clerkships Examination cluding Vulgar Decimal Fractions Department Describe Dictation Exercise Digesting Returns Dublin Metropolitan Police duties Elementary Arithmetic English Composition including English History entrance examination fee Entrance fee equation Euclid Examining Officers First-Class Four Rules gallons Geography grade Handwriting and Orthography Higher Inspector Ireland Latin latus rectum limits of age Male Learner maximum number ment metic number of marks O.C. Age Obligatory papers set Post Office Précis promotion qualified Recurring Decimals Returns into Summaries rises by annual Royal Irish Constabulary Second Division Clerks Second Division Clerkships Second-Class Clerks Simple and Compound Subjects of examination Subjects:-1 thence tion Translation triangle Typical Paper Uxellodunum vacancies Vulgar and Decimal Vulgar Fractions Waterguard
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Page 220 - A place where miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth,' returned the Spirit. 'But they know me. See!' A light shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire. An old, old man and woman, with their children and their children's children, and another 127 generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire.
Page 233 - Radian is the angle subtended, at the centre of a circle, by an arc equal in length to the radius...
Page 249 - DIRECTIONS. (1.) The object of the Abstract, Schedule, or Docket, is to serve as an Index. It should contain the date of each letter; the names of the persons by whom and to whom it is written; and, in as few words as possible, the subject of it. The merits of such an Abstract are — (1) to give the really important point or points of each letter, omitting everything else; (2) to do this briefly; (3) distinctly; and (4) in such a form as readily to catch the eye. (2.) The object of the Memorandum...
Page 251 - Pre'cis, which should be in the form of a narrative, is, that any one who had not time to read the original letters might, by reading the Precis, be put in possession of all the leading features of what passed. The merits of such a Precis...
Page 214 - ... imposita est, geminas opifex libravit in alas ipse suum corpus motaque pependit in aura. instruit et natum, ' Medio ' que ' ut limite curras, Icare,' ait 'moneo, ne, si demissior ibis, unda gravet pennas, si celsior, ignis adurat : 205 inter utrumque vola.
Page 215 - Maid rode in solemn procession through the city, clad in complete armour, and mounted on a white horse. Dunois was by her side, and all the bravest knights of her army and of the garrison followed in her train. The whole population thronged around her; and men, women, and children strove to touch her garments, or her banner, or her charger. They poured forth blessings on her, whom they already considered their deliverer. In the words used by two of them...
Page 215 - In the words used by two of them afterwards before the tribunal, which reversed the sentence, but could not restore the life of the Virginmartyr of France, "the people of Orleans, when they first saw her in their city, thought that it was an angel from heaven that had come down to save them.
Page 241 - Show that, if a solid angle be contained by three plane angles, any two of them are greater than the third. 8. Prove that similar polygons inscribed in circles are to one another as the squares on the diameters of the circles. 9. Define the latus rectum of a conic section, and show that the tangents to the curve at its extremities intersect in the directrix. Prove that the focal distance of a point on a conic is equal to the length of the ordinate produced to meet the tangent at the end of the latus...
Page 243 - If four straight lines be proportionals, the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the rectangle contained by the means.
Page 47 - ... persons who have served for two full consecutive years (a) in any civil situation to which they were admitted with the certificate of the Civil Service Commissioners...