The Popular Educator, Volumes 1-2; Volume 12Cassell, 1867 |
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... ball , and that the height of the highest mountains on its surface is so small in comparison with the size of the earth , and interfere so little with its rotundity , or roundness , that this height has about the same proportion to the ...
... ball , and that the height of the highest mountains on its surface is so small in comparison with the size of the earth , and interfere so little with its rotundity , or roundness , that this height has about the same proportion to the ...
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... ball game , and derives its name from the implement used in striking the ball , which is a long hickory stick bent at one end like a crosse , or bishop's crosier . Across this curve of the stick stout network is stretched , and extends ...
... ball game , and derives its name from the implement used in striking the ball , which is a long hickory stick bent at one end like a crosse , or bishop's crosier . Across this curve of the stick stout network is stretched , and extends ...
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... ball upon his crosse , it is allowed to any of the opposite ile to strike the ball from his crosse with their own weapon . Inns , at the moment when , after a long contest , he may be on the point of winning the game by a dextrous fling ...
... ball upon his crosse , it is allowed to any of the opposite ile to strike the ball from his crosse with their own weapon . Inns , at the moment when , after a long contest , he may be on the point of winning the game by a dextrous fling ...
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... balls were lying together - one red , and the other green . He asked which was his , and being told the red one , asked which red one ? On another occasion the writer was looking at a brightly- coloured geological map . A stranger who ...
... balls were lying together - one red , and the other green . He asked which was his , and being told the red one , asked which red one ? On another occasion the writer was looking at a brightly- coloured geological map . A stranger who ...
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... ball of the thumb and the thick muscles on the opposite side of the palm of the hand , he may be sure that his position and the way in which he holds his pen is stiff , constrained , and unnatural , and requires amendment . To effect ...
... ball of the thumb and the thick muscles on the opposite side of the palm of the hand , he may be sure that his position and the way in which he holds his pen is stiff , constrained , and unnatural , and requires amendment . To effect ...
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Common terms and phrases
adjective animals Avez-vous ball body brother called calyx carpels centre of gravity commencing common conjugation COPY-SLIP cube dative decimal DECLENSION denominator divided divisor draw English word equal EXERCISE figure flowers forces fraction French frère gehen give given number Greek habe hand Hence inches inflection J'ai king language Latin leaf learner least common multiple length LESSONS letter means measure Monsieur multiplied n'ai neuter noun object papillæ parallel parallel ruler parallelogram perpendicular plane plural position pounds practice preposition pronoun pronounced pronunciation proposition pupil quotient reader remainder represented RÉSUMÉ OF EXAMPLES retina right angles root rule Sect SECTION sense sentence side singular sound square stamens stem straight line stroke supposed surface syllable term termination thou tion triangle vanishing point verb vitreous humour VOCABULARY voice vowel vulgar fractions write
Popular passages
Page 193 - Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy, heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions...
Page 79 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 146 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 193 - I tell thee, thou'rt defied! And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied...
Page 41 - Than those of age•, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art...
Page 326 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 255 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 236 - They are to be delivered out from the lips, as beautiful coins newly issued from the mint, deeply and accurately impressed, perfectly finished, neatly struck by the proper organs, distinct, sharp, in due succession, and of due weight.
Page 134 - There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 5 - Mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, will be always able to make a good citizen.