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added Adjective Adverbs allowed amount angles answer base Bill called cent circle circumference common COMPOUND contained decimal DEFINITION denominator diameter difference discount divide divisor ends English equal Exchange expressed factors feet figure fraction francs French Future Gentlemen give given govern half hand height honour INDICATIVE MOOD interest length less letter London Lord manner means MEASURE months MOOD Multiply NOTE noun object paid Past Tense payment Perfect perpendicular person PLURAL pound Present prime principal PROBLEM Progressive Pronoun quantities quarters quotient received reduce remainder result root RULE segment sentence Servant shillings ship sides simple SINGULAR solidity square subtract surface TABLES Tense term third Thou Thrower tion triangle verb whole writing yards
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Page 40 - Shipped in good order and well conditioned by in and upon the good ship called the whereof is master for this present voyage and now riding at anchor in the and bound for os being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 101 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 113 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 158 - RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; multiply the half -sum and the three remainders together; the square root of the product is the area.
Page 159 - RULE.* Multiply the sum of the parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and half the product will be the area.
Page 93 - They might have been. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be, 1. If we be, 2. If thou be, 2. If you be 3. If he be ; 3. If they be. Imperfect Tense. Singular. . Plural. . 1. If I were, 1. If we were, 2. If thou wert, 2.
Page 38 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 171 - A cone is a solid figure described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides containing the right angle, which side remains fixed — Fig.
Page 162 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E. 2.
Page 174 - A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.