First B.A. Examination, University of London: A Hand-book to the Study of Latin, Greek, French and German, English Language and Literature, Arithmetic, Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry ... and Other Subjects Included in the Above Examination ...J. Heywood, 1878 - 372 pages |
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... facts already impressed on his mind , he need have no fear of the short and direct questions asked on this part of his work . He will thus be trusting to the results acquired by himself rather than to the second - hand knowledge ...
... facts already impressed on his mind , he need have no fear of the short and direct questions asked on this part of his work . He will thus be trusting to the results acquired by himself rather than to the second - hand knowledge ...
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... facts related , but life and suggestiveness imparted to the story . The course of the history is well marked by marginal notes , and in an Appendix there is a concise account of the chief magistrates of Rome , a note giving the dates ...
... facts related , but life and suggestiveness imparted to the story . The course of the history is well marked by marginal notes , and in an Appendix there is a concise account of the chief magistrates of Rome , a note giving the dates ...
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... facts , and then to attach the dates to them by a rapid glance at his chronological table a few weeks before the examination . The history of Roman Literature is not distinctly required in the Regulations , but occasionally a question ...
... facts , and then to attach the dates to them by a rapid glance at his chronological table a few weeks before the examination . The history of Roman Literature is not distinctly required in the Regulations , but occasionally a question ...
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... fact that the examiners , in order to test a candidate's acquaintance with the given book , and to give no one an excuse for utter failure , base most of their questions on words and idioms employed in that book . This fact is often ...
... fact that the examiners , in order to test a candidate's acquaintance with the given book , and to give no one an excuse for utter failure , base most of their questions on words and idioms employed in that book . This fact is often ...
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... facts as they are . It would serve no practical purpose to inquire into the reasons for them . Indeed , probably the ... fact that , in the First B.A. Examination of 1876 , 24.7 per cent . of candidates in French failed , whilst not a ...
... facts as they are . It would serve no practical purpose to inquire into the reasons for them . Indeed , probably the ... fact that , in the First B.A. Examination of 1876 , 24.7 per cent . of candidates in French failed , whilst not a ...
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Page 202 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 303 - If a straight line be drawn parallel to one of the sides of a triangle, it shall cut the other sides, or these produced, proportionally : and if the sides, or the sides produced, be cut proportionally, the straight line which joins the points of section shall be parallel to the remaining side of the triangle.
Page 329 - LITERATURE with the HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE. The scheme of the course and revolutions of the language which is followed here is extremely simple, and resting not upon arbitrary but upon natural or real distinctions, gives us the only view of the subject that can claim to be regarded as of a scientific character.
Page 351 - Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deemed; And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives.
Page 44 - Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo. Pan etiam, Arcadia mecum si iudice certet, Pan etiam Arcadia dicat se iudice victum.
Page 180 - ... the sum of the roots is equal to the coefficient of the second term with its sign changed, and the product of the roots is equal to the last term.
Page 100 - At that ever memorable and instructive period, the letter of the law was superseded in favour of the substance of liberty. To the free choice, therefore, of the people, without either king or parliament, we owe that happy establishment, out of which both king and parliament were regenerated.
Page vi - Office, for the advancement of Religion and Morality, and the promotion of useful knowledge, to hold forth to all classes and denominations of our faithful subjects, without any distinction whatsoever, an encouragement for pursuing a regular and liberal course of Education...
Page 308 - Radian is the angle subtended, at the centre of a circle, by an arc equal in length to the radius...
Page 99 - Genius always imports something inventive or creative; which does not rest in mere sensibility to beauty where it is perceived, but which can, moreover, produce new beauties, and exhibit them in such a manner as itrongly to impress the minds of others.