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Joseph Charles Parkinson. PREFACE . THIS work on the Civil Service Examinations not only gives more recent information ... give minute particulars with fidelity and completeness . Since the publication of the last Report of the Commis ...
Joseph Charles Parkinson. PREFACE . THIS work on the Civil Service Examinations not only gives more recent information ... give minute particulars with fidelity and completeness . Since the publication of the last Report of the Commis ...
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... give due weight to excellence in strictly practical acquirements , as contra - distinguished from the subjects denoting intellectual cultivation ; and it may be added that , apart from actual information or the knowledge of particular ...
... give due weight to excellence in strictly practical acquirements , as contra - distinguished from the subjects denoting intellectual cultivation ; and it may be added that , apart from actual information or the knowledge of particular ...
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... give a brief general notice of the principal subjects in which candidates are examined . The various standards of qualification prescribed for admission into each department will be found in the Table of Contents ( page 1 ) , which is ...
... give a brief general notice of the principal subjects in which candidates are examined . The various standards of qualification prescribed for admission into each department will be found in the Table of Contents ( page 1 ) , which is ...
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... give the candidate time to correct his performances . The exercise for the lower offices consists of about a dozen lines of the simplest English , and in the case of Letter - Carriers is restricted to three or four lines . For ...
... give the candidate time to correct his performances . The exercise for the lower offices consists of about a dozen lines of the simplest English , and in the case of Letter - Carriers is restricted to three or four lines . For ...
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... - ship , or the Crystal Palace - upon which he is to write an imaginary letter to a friend . In other cases , the candidate is required to give his written opinion upon some book , place , or subject , 24 GOVERNMENT EXAMINATIONS . ་
... - ship , or the Crystal Palace - upon which he is to write an imaginary letter to a friend . In other cases , the candidate is required to give his written opinion upon some book , place , or subject , 24 GOVERNMENT EXAMINATIONS . ་
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Page 87 - 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 85 - IF a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Page 19 - That he is properly certified as free from any physical defect or disease which would be likely to interfere with the proper discharge of his duties ; Third.
Page 85 - If, from the ends of the side of a triangle, there be drawn two straight lines to a point within the triangle, these shall be less than, the other two sides of the triangle, but shall contain a greater angle. Let...
Page 86 - Prove it. 6.If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced, and the part of it produced together with the -square on half the line bisected, is equal to the square on the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced.
Page 69 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 19 - To ascertain that the candidate is free from any physical defect or disease which would be likely to interfere with the proper discharge of his duties.
Page 116 - Literature 500 7375 5. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks, and the number set opposite to each branch in the preceding regulation denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it.
Page 86 - In obtuse-angled triangles, if a perpendicular be drawn from either of the acute angles to the opposite side produced, the square on the side subtending the obtuse angle, is greater than the squares on the sides containing the obtuse angle, by twice the rectangle contained by the side...
Page 86 - To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.