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... preceding lesson on Ancient History , to the remarkable antiquities which have been found in the Thebaid , or Upper Egypt , we have taken the opportunity to introduce , for the benefit of our young readers , several illustrations of ...
... preceding lesson on Ancient History , to the remarkable antiquities which have been found in the Thebaid , or Upper Egypt , we have taken the opportunity to introduce , for the benefit of our young readers , several illustrations of ...
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... preceding - a system which is evidently founded on the digital structure of the human hand . So natural , indeed , is the practice of counting by the fingers , that both learned and unlearned adopt it , whenever any calculation is to be ...
... preceding - a system which is evidently founded on the digital structure of the human hand . So natural , indeed , is the practice of counting by the fingers , that both learned and unlearned adopt it , whenever any calculation is to be ...
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... preceding au is blended with that diphthong without changing its sound . Ex . beau , handsome ; château , castle ; tableau , picture ; eau , water . 18. ei nearly like a in fate . Ex . beige , serge ; neige , snow ; seigle , rye , reine ...
... preceding au is blended with that diphthong without changing its sound . Ex . beau , handsome ; château , castle ; tableau , picture ; eau , water . 18. ei nearly like a in fate . Ex . beige , serge ; neige , snow ; seigle , rye , reine ...
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... preceding h , to know when it is aspirate or not , we will give a list of the words which commence with h aspirate , omitting however the derivatives and a few words seldom used . Hableur Hache Hagard Haie Hale Houppe Houri Haras ...
... preceding h , to know when it is aspirate or not , we will give a list of the words which commence with h aspirate , omitting however the derivatives and a few words seldom used . Hableur Hache Hagard Haie Hale Houppe Houri Haras ...
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... preceding observations , it is evident that the Greeks and the Romans , with the whole system of decimal Romans , especially those who were initiated into the doctrines notation . He asserts that a very obscure passage in the of ...
... preceding observations , it is evident that the Greeks and the Romans , with the whole system of decimal Romans , especially those who were initiated into the doctrines notation . He asserts that a very obscure passage in the of ...
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Common terms and phrases
accent adjective ancient animal appear Avez Avez vous avons beautiful blood body brother called carbonic acid ciphers column conjugation crust dative declension denote divided dividend divisor earth Egypt Egyptians English equal Euclid Euclid's Elements example EXERCISE expressed feet figure flowers French frère gender genitive geometry give given grammar Greek habe HISTORY OF HUNGARY hundred indicative mood J'ai JOHN CASSELL language Latin LESSONS letter livre masculine means Monsieur multiplicand multiplier n'ai neuter nominative nouns object participle perpendicular person pistil plant plural praise preceding present pronoun proposition Ptolemy quotient remainder right angles Robert Simson rocks rule sentence side sing singular sœur sound square stamens stem straight line subjunctive mood sunt surface syllable tense thou thousand tion triangle verb volcano vowel words write
Popular passages
Page 266 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
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 266 - 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 enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 267 - ... people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market I sat down among them, and, after looking round...
Page 251 - , WE are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features ; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 267 - I went for a draught of the river water ; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 266 - He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional fund for buying books. But I had another advantage in it.
Page 217 - Multiply the integer of the quotient by the divisor, and to the product add the remainder, if any ; and the result will equal the dividend, if the work is right.
Page 233 - On this, I soon imagined that by pulling round a wheel, the weight might be raised to any height, by tying a rope to the weight, and winding the rope round the axle of the wheel ; and that the power gained must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle...
Page 266 - At length, a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this I therefore reckon one of the first errata of my life; but the unfairness of it weighed little with me, when under the impressions of resentment for the blows his passion too often urged him to bestow upon me, though he was otherwise not an ill-natured man : perhaps I was too...