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... Common Rules .. XIV . Proofs of Multiplication and Division XV . Contractions in Multiplication ... XVI . Contractions in Division I. II . III . IV . V. VI . General Principles in Division .......... .................. ....... LESSONS ...
... Common Rules .. XIV . Proofs of Multiplication and Division XV . Contractions in Multiplication ... XVI . Contractions in Division I. II . III . IV . V. VI . General Principles in Division .......... .................. ....... LESSONS ...
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... common subjects in this age of cheap literature ; and there are thousands of youths throughout the land whom a simple and concise digest of the facts and bearings of leading subjects would have converted into diligent and earnest ...
... common subjects in this age of cheap literature ; and there are thousands of youths throughout the land whom a simple and concise digest of the facts and bearings of leading subjects would have converted into diligent and earnest ...
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... common system of notation . In many of our recent works on ble of expressing a number containing sixty figures in the arithmetic , the French system of numeration is adopted , which differs very considerably from ours , and which has ...
... common system of notation . In many of our recent works on ble of expressing a number containing sixty figures in the arithmetic , the French system of numeration is adopted , which differs very considerably from ours , and which has ...
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... common road is very circuitous , and abounding with needless hindrances . We have only two things to ask of you : the first , that you will be content to learn one thing at a time , instead of being impatient for knowledge , not , at ...
... common road is very circuitous , and abounding with needless hindrances . We have only two things to ask of you : the first , that you will be content to learn one thing at a time , instead of being impatient for knowledge , not , at ...
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... common to the human body in a state of health . In fewer and simpler words , it is the science of healthy function . It is no common good to have a sound mind in a sound body ; but if the play and force of the intellect depend more or ...
... common to the human body in a state of health . In fewer and simpler words , it is the science of healthy function . It is no common good to have a sound mind in a sound body ; but if the play and force of the intellect depend more or ...
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Page 61 - So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 295 - But never reached the town. The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At...
Page 268 - This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky...
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Page 295 - The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At daybreak on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept — and, turning homeward, cried, "In heaven we all shall meet !" — When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet.
Page 128 - The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces ; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them : the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth ; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.