Gibson's London matriculation guide, by J. Gibson [and others].1882 |
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... proved in the case of the Editor's Pupils over and over again . Full particulars as to the system are given in this Guide . LAST MONTHS ' AND FORTNIGHTS ' CLASSES . Special Classes , formed mainly for the benefit of Postal Pupils , but ...
... proved in the case of the Editor's Pupils over and over again . Full particulars as to the system are given in this Guide . LAST MONTHS ' AND FORTNIGHTS ' CLASSES . Special Classes , formed mainly for the benefit of Postal Pupils , but ...
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... proved by experience to be most effective , if the course given by the Tutor is faithfully followed out by the Pupil , and the work done and returned regularly every week . It has the following advantages : - ( i . ) It keeps a Pupil to ...
... proved by experience to be most effective , if the course given by the Tutor is faithfully followed out by the Pupil , and the work done and returned regularly every week . It has the following advantages : - ( i . ) It keeps a Pupil to ...
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... Prove this . 5. When there are four moveable pulleys in one block , how much string passes through the hands in raising a weight six inches ? 6. State the third law of motion , and give a numerical calculation of it . 7. What is the ...
... Prove this . 5. When there are four moveable pulleys in one block , how much string passes through the hands in raising a weight six inches ? 6. State the third law of motion , and give a numerical calculation of it . 7. What is the ...
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... proving second best in the course of con- tinued conflict , it entreated the help of a man , and received a bit . But when in victory and noisy triumph it left the foe , it did not shake off the rider from its back , nor the bit from ...
... proving second best in the course of con- tinued conflict , it entreated the help of a man , and received a bit . But when in victory and noisy triumph it left the foe , it did not shake off the rider from its back , nor the bit from ...
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... proved a light of safety to Patroclus or the rest of my companions , but I sit by the ships uselessly cumbering the earth - I who have no equal among the mail - clad Greeks , though there are others who are superior to me in war . Would ...
... proved a light of safety to Patroclus or the rest of my companions , but I sit by the ships uselessly cumbering the earth - I who have no equal among the mail - clad Greeks , though there are others who are superior to me in war . Would ...
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Page 14 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Page 23 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 23 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 30 - Six years have passed, — a long time for a boy and a dog; Bob Ainslie is off to the wars; I am a medical student, and clerk at Minto House Hospital. Rab I saw almost every week, on the Wednesday; and we had much pleasant intimacy. I found the way to his heart by frequent scratching of his huge head, and an occasional bone. When I did not notice him he would plant himself straight before me, and stand wagging that bud of a tail, and looking up, with his head a little to one side. His .master I occasionally...
Page 26 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 11 - To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, may be equal to the square of the other part.
Page 11 - Find the locus of a point, the distances of which from two given straight lines have a fixed ratio. 143. Find the locus of a point which moves so that the sum of its distances from two vertices of an equilateral triangle shall equal its distance from the third.
Page 33 - If the square described on one side of a triangle be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle.
Page 19 - In every triangle, the square on the side subtending an acute angle is less than the squares on the sides containing that angle, by twice the rectangle contained by either of these sides, and the straight line intercepted between the perpendicular let fall on it from the opposite angle and the acute angle.
Page 42 - If three forces acting at a point be represented in magnitude and direction by the sides of a triangle taken in order, they will be in equilibrium.