The 'Try' arithmetic for all classes of schools. [With] Answers. [With] Answers

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Seite 94 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Seite 93 - With truth for my creed and God for my guide ; She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that old arm-chair.
Seite 137 - To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A Fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other.
Seite 94 - Aroused by Gelert's dying yell, Some slumberer wakened nigh : What words the parent's joy can tell To hear his infant cry ? Concealed beneath a mangled heap His hurried search had missed, All glowing from his rosy sleep, His cherub boy he kissed.
Seite 66 - ... followed her closely. On receiving the square from her, he said, 'Stay, daughter, how do you know that this is what Mr. Williams wants?" 'Why', she replied, 'did you not bring me a chip just now?
Seite 95 - Dark figures, made visible at a distance on the white ground, might be seen with long poles examining every hollow near the mountain path. They are people from the village, who are searching for the widow and her son. They have reached the pass. A cry is heard by one of the shepherds, as he sees a bit of a tartan cloak among the snow. They have found the widow — dead ; her arms stretched forth, as if imploring for assistance ! Before noon they discovered her child by his cries. He was safe in the...
Seite 95 - Highland hearts, when on that evening the aged pastor gathered the villagers in the deserted house of mourning, and by prayer and fatherly exhortation sought to improve for their soul's good an event so sorrowful.
Seite 94 - I fell into grief, and began to complain ; I looked for a friend, but I sought him in vain ; Companions were shy, and acquaintance were cold, They gave me good counsel, but dreaded their gold. " Let them go," I exclaimed : " I've a friend at my side, To lift me, and aid me, whatever betide. To trust to the world is to build on the sand : — I'll trust but in Heaven and my good Right Hand.
Seite 66 - A stranger, travelling on foot, with a little boy, one day stopped at the gate of the convent, and asked the porter to give him a little bread and water for his child. Poor and friendless though he was, when he stood at the convent gate, he afterwards became one of the most famous of men. That stranger was the great Christopher Columbus ; and the little boy was his son Diego. Seven years afterwards, he was befriended* by Isabella, Queen of Spain; and, on the...
Seite 136 - An improper fraction is one whose numerator is equal to, or greater than its denominator ; as, $, -f . A mixed number is a whole number and a fraction expressed together; as, 4f, 25-ht.

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