John Heywood's Manchester readers. [With] Key, pt.1,2, Book 4 |
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... PROBLEM I. - To bisect any given straight line as A B. Note that to bisect means to divide into two equal parts . From A as centre with radius A E , describe arc CED . From B as centre with an equal radius B F , describe arc C F D. Join ...
... PROBLEM I. - To bisect any given straight line as A B. Note that to bisect means to divide into two equal parts . From A as centre with radius A E , describe arc CED . From B as centre with an equal radius B F , describe arc C F D. Join ...
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... PROBLEM V. - To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line , as A B , from a given point without it , and opposite the end of the line , as C. Take any point D in A B near the end of the line . Join C D and bisect it in ...
... PROBLEM V. - To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line , as A B , from a given point without it , and opposite the end of the line , as C. Take any point D in A B near the end of the line . Join C D and bisect it in ...
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... PROBLEM IX . - To bisect any given angle , as A B C , or divide it into two equal parts . From B with any radius B D , describe the arc D E cutting lines con- taining angle in D and E. From D and E with any radius , describe arcs ...
... PROBLEM IX . - To bisect any given angle , as A B C , or divide it into two equal parts . From B with any radius B D , describe the arc D E cutting lines con- taining angle in D and E. From D and E with any radius , describe arcs ...
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... PROBLEM XIII . - To construct an equilateral or equal sided triangle on any given straight line , as A B. From A with radius A B describe arc B C. From B with radius BA describe arc A C. Let these arcs cut each other in C. Join A C , B ...
... PROBLEM XIII . - To construct an equilateral or equal sided triangle on any given straight line , as A B. From A with radius A B describe arc B C. From B with radius BA describe arc A C. Let these arcs cut each other in C. Join A C , B ...
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... PROBLEM XVII . - To construct a triangle , the base as AB , and the angles at the base , as C and D , being given . In E F take G H equal to AB . At G make angle H G M equal to C , and at H the angle G H M equal to D. Produce G LH M ...
... PROBLEM XVII . - To construct a triangle , the base as AB , and the angles at the base , as C and D , being given . In E F take G H equal to AB . At G make angle H G M equal to C , and at H the angle G H M equal to D. Produce G LH M ...
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Page 153 - His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay.
Page 153 - Dark-heaving ; — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 109 - YE Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze — Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe ! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow, — While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 10 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 152 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 17 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 12 - Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 90 - Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. " Rome shall perish— write that word In the blood that she has spilt ; Perish, hopeless and abhorred, Deep in ruin as in guilt.
Page 18 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord...
Page 34 - I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.