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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... Shew ) me . Thus , by fupplying that part of the sentence that is understood , the cafe of the latter noun or pronoun will be understood . 5 INTER- INTERJECTIONS in English have no government , nor any particular 40 OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... Shew ) me . Thus , by fupplying that part of the sentence that is understood , the cafe of the latter noun or pronoun will be understood . 5 INTER- INTERJECTIONS in English have no government , nor any particular 40 OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
Page 105
... shews the letters unvs . Ufing also the fimple characters of the alphabet for the words , prepofitions , and terminations , they there fignify . - Upon this principle , the fecond lesson is formed . But as the chief excellency of fhort ...
... shews the letters unvs . Ufing also the fimple characters of the alphabet for the words , prepofitions , and terminations , they there fignify . - Upon this principle , the fecond lesson is formed . But as the chief excellency of fhort ...
Page 167
... shews the number of shillings contained in 250l . ; which product must be again multiplied by 12 , the number of units of the next - lower denomination which make one of the next greater , or the number of pence contained in one ...
... shews the number of shillings contained in 250l . ; which product must be again multiplied by 12 , the number of units of the next - lower denomination which make one of the next greater , or the number of pence contained in one ...
Page 275
... shews the decimal parts the intereft is of the principal . Thus , .05 of a pound is the intereft of a pound for one year at 5 per cent . being equal to 15 .; it alfo fhews that the intereft ! intereft of any principal for one year , at ...
... shews the decimal parts the intereft is of the principal . Thus , .05 of a pound is the intereft of a pound for one year at 5 per cent . being equal to 15 .; it alfo fhews that the intereft ! intereft of any principal for one year , at ...
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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.
Page 65 - 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 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.
Page 112 - For this reason a man truly modest is as much so when he is alone as in company, and as subject to a blush in his closet, as when the eyes of multitudes are upon him. . , I do not remember to have met with any...
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