The pupil-teachers' guide to a more intellectual method of teaching simple arithmeticJarrold & Sons, 1853 - 209 Seiten |
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... according to Herodotus , from whom we derive our earliest information on this sub- ject , this science passed over from Egypt into Greece . To Thales , a native of Miletus , and who had travelled into Egypt , is attributed the merit of ...
... according to Herodotus , from whom we derive our earliest information on this sub- ject , this science passed over from Egypt into Greece . To Thales , a native of Miletus , and who had travelled into Egypt , is attributed the merit of ...
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... according to some particular scale of notation , we are enabled to represent any conceivable number whatever . The value of every digit increases in a tenfold proportion from the right towards the left ; the distance of any figure from ...
... according to some particular scale of notation , we are enabled to represent any conceivable number whatever . The value of every digit increases in a tenfold proportion from the right towards the left ; the distance of any figure from ...
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... according to the usual supposed age of our globe , he would not have counted near enough . For to count a billion , according to the rule given above , would require 9,512 years , 342 days , 5 hours , and 20 minutes ; and supposing we ...
... according to the usual supposed age of our globe , he would not have counted near enough . For to count a billion , according to the rule given above , would require 9,512 years , 342 days , 5 hours , and 20 minutes ; and supposing we ...
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... according to Cuvier , is 1437 feet : express the same in words . 9. The Breakwater at Plymouth cost a million and a half sterling : write this amount in figures . This stupendous barrier is designed to break the swell occasioned by the ...
... according to Cuvier , is 1437 feet : express the same in words . 9. The Breakwater at Plymouth cost a million and a half sterling : write this amount in figures . This stupendous barrier is designed to break the swell occasioned by the ...
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... year established by Numa 10 days shorter than the solar year , regulated the months according to their present measure , and ordered the Romans to insert the intercalary day after the VIth before the Calends of ADDITION . 19.
... year established by Numa 10 days shorter than the solar year , regulated the months according to their present measure , and ordered the Romans to insert the intercalary day after the VIth before the Calends of ADDITION . 19.
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acres afterwards amount ancient army battle bell bishops British called carried Carthage Carthaginians celebrated century Christ Christians church ciphers coined columns commenced contained cotton death Diocletian distance dividend divisor duke earth Edict Edict of Nantes edifice Edward emperor empire England English equal Europe feet figure fire four France French Hannibal height hence Henry Henry VIII houses inches Ireland iron islands Italy Jews Julius Cæsar Jupiter king kingdom Lake lava length London Lord manufacture Masinissa Messena miles an hour millions moon Multiplicand multiply muslin Napoleon Bonaparte nearly parliament Paul's period persecution Peter's planet Pope pounds present Prince Punic region reign remains Roman Rome Scotland Second Punic War seven hundred ships side silver soldiers Spain square miles surface temple tens third Punic war thousand tion tons Trajan United Kingdom units volcanos whole yards
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 92 - ... houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like...
Seite 125 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points, the realization of the Unity of Mankind!
Seite 125 - The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Seite 92 - We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long : it made me weep to see it.
Seite 92 - I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures without at all attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Seite 92 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children...
Seite 91 - Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the Bridge...
Seite 59 - The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly filled up, had left a slight depression, covered in its interior by wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom.
Seite 91 - So help me God I will keep all these articles inviolate, as I am a man, as I am a Christian, as I am a knight, and as I am a king crowned and anointed.
Seite 122 - Yet these low, insignificant coral islets stand and are victorious : for here another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments ; yet what will this tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month.