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... remarks appear in the Report : In the June Examination seven per cent . of the candidates failed altogether and twenty - six per cent . only just passed in the subject of Arithmetic . Questions on Compound Interest , Discount , and ...
... remarks appear in the Report : In the June Examination seven per cent . of the candidates failed altogether and twenty - six per cent . only just passed in the subject of Arithmetic . Questions on Compound Interest , Discount , and ...
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... remarks : - In Arithmetic , There were fewer cases of confused and bad methods , fewer gross errors in principle ; and the papers were worked in better form and more neatly . But , as compared with last year , improvement is not ...
... remarks : - In Arithmetic , There were fewer cases of confused and bad methods , fewer gross errors in principle ; and the papers were worked in better form and more neatly . But , as compared with last year , improvement is not ...
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... remark to the effect that Euclid's Elements were a mental training second to none . Teachers who need a hint or two on this subject may learn something from the experience of the Rev. Stephen Hawtrey , late Assistant Master at Eton , as ...
... remark to the effect that Euclid's Elements were a mental training second to none . Teachers who need a hint or two on this subject may learn something from the experience of the Rev. Stephen Hawtrey , late Assistant Master at Eton , as ...
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... remarks for forming the equations . No general rules are laid down for the solution of them , but different assumptions are made , and ingenious artifices are employed , whereby the equations are very much simplified . general , a ...
... remarks for forming the equations . No general rules are laid down for the solution of them , but different assumptions are made , and ingenious artifices are employed , whereby the equations are very much simplified . general , a ...
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... remarks that Ganesa , a learned commentator , has quoted a passage from a work of Aryabhatta ( an older writer than Brahmegupta ) , and that another commentator has named him as one of the earliest writers on these sciences . Dr. Bhau ...
... remarks that Ganesa , a learned commentator , has quoted a passage from a work of Aryabhatta ( an older writer than Brahmegupta ) , and that another commentator has named him as one of the earliest writers on these sciences . Dr. Bhau ...
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Page 29 - This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Page iv - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 30 - We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.
Page 32 - Théorie des fonctions analytiques, contenant les principes du calcul différentiel, dégagés de toute considération d'infiniment petits ou d'évanouissans, de limites ou de fluxions, et réduits à l'analyse algébrique des quantités finies; par JL Lagnuige.
Page 32 - Les plus grandes âmes sont capables des plus grands vices aussi bien que des plus grandes vertus ; et ceux qui ne marchent que fort lentement peuvent avancer beaucoup davantage , s'ils suivent toujours le droit chemin, que ne font ceux qui courent et qui s'en éloignent.
Page 6 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 5 - To make an estimate, what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the sun by the like power. And by comparing the periods of the several planets with their distances from the sun, he found, that if any power like gravity held them in their courses, its strength must decrease in the duplicate proportion of the increase of distance.
Page 59 - If four magnitudes are in proportion, the sum of the first and second is to their difference as the sum of the third and fourth is to their difference.