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 ... and Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volume 1H. D. Symonds and Vernor and Hood, 1806 - Education |
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Page 76
... columns , and applying this rule alternately ; first , to the first column , and then to the second : and a number of other ways there are , too numerous to mention . The third way of writing fecretly , is , Firft , by writing with the ...
... columns , and applying this rule alternately ; first , to the first column , and then to the second : and a number of other ways there are , too numerous to mention . The third way of writing fecretly , is , Firft , by writing with the ...
Page 128
... column together ; then place the first figure on the right hand , or unit figure , of the fum fo found , under the fame column , carrying the remaining figure or figures , if any , to be added to the next column : having discovered the ...
... column together ; then place the first figure on the right hand , or unit figure , of the fum fo found , under the fame column , carrying the remaining figure or figures , if any , to be added to the next column : having discovered the ...
Page 129
... column , adding the other figure or figures to the next column , proceeding in this manner till the whole be finished , and setting down the total amount of the last column under the fame . Thus , in the firft example , I fay 2 and 4 is ...
... column , adding the other figure or figures to the next column , proceeding in this manner till the whole be finished , and setting down the total amount of the last column under the fame . Thus , in the firft example , I fay 2 and 4 is ...
Page 130
... column in any fum has a cypher in the place of units , fuch cypher is to be placed under the column ; as in the firit of the three laft examples . : The three laft examples are proved - which is done in this manner after the total is ...
... column in any fum has a cypher in the place of units , fuch cypher is to be placed under the column ; as in the firit of the three laft examples . : The three laft examples are proved - which is done in this manner after the total is ...
Page 131
... column , and their name or mk generally at the top : thus , in addition of money , the pounds are placed in one column , with an at the top for libra , the Latin word for pounds ' ; the fhillings in another column , with an s at the top ...
... column , and their name or mk generally at the top : thus , in addition of money , the pounds are placed in one column , with an at the top for libra , the Latin word for pounds ' ; the fhillings in another column , with an s at the top ...
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adjective adverb againſt alfo alſo angle anſwer characters confifts confonants convex lens decimal decimal fraction denomination diameter diſtance divided dividend divifion divifor equal Example exprefs faid fame manner farthings fecond feen feet fenfe fentence ferve feven fhall fhew fhillings fhould fide figure fimple fingle fingular firft firſt fome fometimes foregoing fquare fraction ftands fubftantive fubject fubtract 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 obferving objective cafe oppofite paffing paft participle pence perfon placed pleaſe plural pofition pounds prefent prepofition pronoun purpoſe queſtion quotient rays reprefented rule of three ſmall ſpeaker ſquare ſtands ſtation teleſcope thefe theſe third perfon thofe thoſe thou thouſand ufed uſed verb vowel Vulgar Fractions whofe whoſe words yards
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Page 47 - 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 62 - Nature; to show virtue her own feature; scorn, her own image; and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. 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.
Page 44 - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Page 61 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 61 - 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 197 - RULE. Divide the numerator by the denominator, and the quotient will be the whole number, and the remainder will be the numerator to the denominator.
Page 62 - ... 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 61 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 302 - Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to...
Page 205 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.