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... Ireland . G. Johnstone Stoney , Esq . , Secretary to the Queen's University in Ireland . CONTENTS . Abstract of Papers . See Précis . Accounts.
... Ireland . G. Johnstone Stoney , Esq . , Secretary to the Queen's University in Ireland . CONTENTS . Abstract of Papers . See Précis . Accounts.
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... Ireland , Departments in . See List of Departments . Italian . See Languages . Law : Common Constitutional Equity . International Mercantile and Commercial Real and Personal Property Real Property Languages : French German Greek Italian ...
... Ireland , Departments in . See List of Departments . Italian . See Languages . Law : Common Constitutional Equity . International Mercantile and Commercial Real and Personal Property Real Property Languages : French German Greek Italian ...
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... IRELAND . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ( elementary ) , 75 Works , Office of . CLERKS . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ( including Vulgar & Decimal Fractions ) , 74-77 3. Book - keeping ( Principles of ) ...
... IRELAND . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ( elementary ) , 75 Works , Office of . CLERKS . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ( including Vulgar & Decimal Fractions ) , 74-77 3. Book - keeping ( Principles of ) ...
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... IRELAND . Charitable Bequests Commission . Nothing fixed . Chief Secretary's Office . 1. CLERKS . 1. Writing from ... Ireland ) , 38 Directors of Convict Prisons , Office of . I. CLERKS . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ...
... IRELAND . Charitable Bequests Commission . Nothing fixed . Chief Secretary's Office . 1. CLERKS . 1. Writing from ... Ireland ) , 38 Directors of Convict Prisons , Office of . I. CLERKS . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ...
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... Ireland , 39 General Register Office . I. CLERKS . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ( including Vulgar & Decimal Fractions ) , 74-77 3. Correspondence , 67 4. Précis , 72 5. Geography of the British Isles , 39 II ...
... Ireland , 39 General Register Office . I. CLERKS . 1. Writing from Dictation , 69 2. Arithmetic ( including Vulgar & Decimal Fractions ) , 74-77 3. Correspondence , 67 4. Précis , 72 5. Geography of the British Isles , 39 II ...
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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.
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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.
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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.