Arithmetical Questions on a New Plan: Intended to Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information ...author and proprietors, 1811 - 494 էջ |
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Էջ iii
... beft endeavours , however infignificant , to leave it as much wifer and as much better as he can . " If this obfervation inculcates a general duty , it applies with peculiar force to perfons engaged in inftruction by their profeffion ...
... beft endeavours , however infignificant , to leave it as much wifer and as much better as he can . " If this obfervation inculcates a general duty , it applies with peculiar force to perfons engaged in inftruction by their profeffion ...
Էջ iv
... beft fuited for promoting general emulation , and diffeminating the defired knowledge among fuch as are lefs dili- gent , or lefs advanced . For this purpose I have found it highly beneficial to my pupils to give them a task out of the ...
... beft fuited for promoting general emulation , and diffeminating the defired knowledge among fuch as are lefs dili- gent , or lefs advanced . For this purpose I have found it highly beneficial to my pupils to give them a task out of the ...
Էջ xx
... beft writers . This cuftom of Mr. B.'s is of infinite ufe , as it renders the task of study no lefs entertaining than improving ; and courts the young mind to the purpose of the preceptor by hanging the avenues of fcience with wreaths ...
... beft writers . This cuftom of Mr. B.'s is of infinite ufe , as it renders the task of study no lefs entertaining than improving ; and courts the young mind to the purpose of the preceptor by hanging the avenues of fcience with wreaths ...
Էջ 33
... beft of cut - throats " took place 42 years B. C. How long is that ago this present year 1810 Anf . 1852 . N. B. The defeat and death of Brutus and Caffius at PHILIPPI , in Macedonia " , where thefe brave and stre- nuous being violated ...
... beft of cut - throats " took place 42 years B. C. How long is that ago this present year 1810 Anf . 1852 . N. B. The defeat and death of Brutus and Caffius at PHILIPPI , in Macedonia " , where thefe brave and stre- nuous being violated ...
Էջ 53
... beft historians , who affure us , that the English army languished with fickness and fatigue , and were in great want of food ; while the French were in perfect health , and plentifully fupplied with provifions of every kind . But ...
... beft historians , who affure us , that the English army languished with fickness and fatigue , and were in great want of food ; while the French were in perfect health , and plentifully fupplied with provifions of every kind . But ...
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Էջ 66 - For these reasons, there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants ; they knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Էջ 130 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Էջ 31 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Էջ 9 - Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky.
Էջ 350 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Էջ 185 - He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.