The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volume 1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - Arithmetic - 458 pages Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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... less . Thus , when a quality is fimply expreffed , without reference . to a greater or lefs degree of the fame , it is called the pofitive degree : as , large , Jhort . When it is expreffed with relation to a lefs degree , it is called ...
... less . Thus , when a quality is fimply expreffed , without reference . to a greater or lefs degree of the fame , it is called the pofitive degree : as , large , Jhort . When it is expreffed with relation to a lefs degree , it is called ...
Page 69
... less difficulty than the art of writing . Few people , be their capacities ever fo mean , are incapable of learning this . Hence we see fo many , who , though ignorant of the more early parts of fcience , fuch as English grammar , and ...
... less difficulty than the art of writing . Few people , be their capacities ever fo mean , are incapable of learning this . Hence we see fo many , who , though ignorant of the more early parts of fcience , fuch as English grammar , and ...
Page 109
... less than thirteen characters in his alphabet , which are formed with angles in them , befides two which are complete ovals , or circles . And Mr. Mawd , who published another fyftem in 1635 , has alfo eleven angled characters , and ...
... less than thirteen characters in his alphabet , which are formed with angles in them , befides two which are complete ovals , or circles . And Mr. Mawd , who published another fyftem in 1635 , has alfo eleven angled characters , and ...
Page 111
... less than nine characters completely curled at one end , which muft render his fyftem very complex and tedious . 136 In 1774 , Mr. Palmer published a treatife on fhort hand , in which he somewhat improved on Mr. Byrom's plan , having ...
... less than nine characters completely curled at one end , which muft render his fyftem very complex and tedious . 136 In 1774 , Mr. Palmer published a treatife on fhort hand , in which he somewhat improved on Mr. Byrom's plan , having ...
Page 141
... less numbers . From 6954 1729886 Take 5443 1098907 Rem . 1511 630979 241886878 Proof6954 1729886 370290370 To fhew the ufe of this rule , I fay - Suppofe a merchant owed 69541. whereof he has paid 54437 .: to know what re- mains to be ...
... less numbers . From 6954 1729886 Take 5443 1098907 Rem . 1511 630979 241886878 Proof6954 1729886 370290370 To fhew the ufe of this rule , I fay - Suppofe a merchant owed 69541. whereof he has paid 54437 .: to know what re- mains to be ...
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adjective adverb againſt alfo alſo angle anſwer caſe characters confifts confonants convex lens decimal denomination diſtance divided dividend divifion divifor Engliſh equal Example exprefs faid fame manner farthings fecond feen feet fenfe fentence feven fhall fhillings fhould fide figure fimple fingle fingular firft firſt folid fome fometimes foregoing fpeaker fquare fraction ftands fubftantive fubject fubtracted fuch gallons given number glafs glaſs inches inftrument intereft interfections laft laſt learner lefs lens letters meaſure microſcope mirror mode moft moſt muft multiply muſt neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun obferved objective cafe oppofite paffing participle paſt pence perfon perpendicular placed pleaſe plural pofition pounds prefent prepofition pronoun purpoſe queſtion quotient rays repreſented rule of three ſeen ſmall ſtands ſtation teleſcope thefe theſe third perfon thofe thoſe thou thouſand trapeziums triangle uſed verb vowel Vulgar Fractions whofe whoſe words yards
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Page 66 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 51 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Page 65 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Page 66 - Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh ! there...
Page 112 - The prince went to Rome to defend his father; but coming into the senate and hearing a multitude of crimes proved upon him, was so oppressed when it came to his turn to speak that he was unable to utter a word.
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Page 111 - I know no two words that have been more abused by the different and wrong interpretations which are put upon them, than those two, modesty and assurance. To say, such a one is a modest man, sometimes indeed passes for a good character ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish, awkward fellow, who has neither good breeding, politeness, nor any knowledge of the world.
Page 208 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
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