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Assurance Company BECKFORD bill Billy biped BLOCK-HEAD brandy Brought forward bumble-head BURLINGTON STREET called Carried forward Church cigars COMIC ARITHMETIC common Cooper d'ye buy debt DECIMAL discount ditto divided divine division duty equal EVOLUTION Exeter Hall flats gammon glory of surrounding go snacks guinea head honour hour Hulla boys Humbug Illustrations by Leech interested Jane Porter keep ladies lawyers living Lord maids Marryat maxim MAXWELL MERRIE ENGLAND Miss Austen modern multiplication musquito neatly bound numbsculls paid parliament penny perfection performed philosophy political poor Poor-Law post 8vo Practice principle PROPORTION PUFF Reduction ascending religion RICHARD BENTLEY RULE SAVE-ALL Seven-leagued Boots Sinecurists Society spiritual Stock subtraction subtractor Tarnation taxation teaches Theodore Hook thing tithes trade Trollope true various Vulgar fractions WASHINGTON IRVING Whigs whiskers widowers WILLIAM BECKFORD wisdom worship young
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Page 23 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.
Page 66 - Eating a Christmas pie : He put in his thumb, and he pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 106 - Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
Page 96 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? About two hundred pounds a year. — And that which was proved true before, Prove false again ? — Two hundred more.
Page 46 - ... facilis descensus Averni ; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras ; Hie labor, hoc opus est.
Page 9 - I. NUMERATION. NUMERATION teaches the different value of figures by their different places (see Walkinghame, Court Guide, Law List, &c.) ; also the value of ciphers, or noughts, according to their relative situations (see Intellectual Calculator, or Martin's Arithmetical Frames). As regards the value of figures in places, we have illustrations in sinecures of all grades, from the Lords of the Treasury to the meanest underling of the Stamp-Office. Place and pension make the unit a multitude, according...
Page 109 - God, when he made man, intended that he should be starved ; " that human fecundity tends to get the start of the means of subsistence...