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... thing about that great man Sir Isaac Newton , -his humility . He used to say that he had no faculties different from those of other men , only that he had had time to pay attention to certain sub- jects , and so gained his discoveries ...
... thing about that great man Sir Isaac Newton , -his humility . He used to say that he had no faculties different from those of other men , only that he had had time to pay attention to certain sub- jects , and so gained his discoveries ...
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... thing which the Report noticed was the improvement in the historical papers , attributable to the use of a better text- book . This showed them the great advantage of that external help which was derived from the University . The change ...
... thing which the Report noticed was the improvement in the historical papers , attributable to the use of a better text- book . This showed them the great advantage of that external help which was derived from the University . The change ...
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... thing of this in the most sacred of all biographies . Little is told us of the first thirty years of the life of our Blessed Lord . But there is one thing which we do know respecting that mysterious time , -His continued obe- dience to ...
... thing of this in the most sacred of all biographies . Little is told us of the first thirty years of the life of our Blessed Lord . But there is one thing which we do know respecting that mysterious time , -His continued obe- dience to ...
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... thing in reality as secular or profane history . All was in one sense Sacred History . God was in all history . In some places it would have been necessary to explain why he said so much on the religious side of history but here he need ...
... thing in reality as secular or profane history . All was in one sense Sacred History . God was in all history . In some places it would have been necessary to explain why he said so much on the religious side of history but here he need ...
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... render your conduct worthy of imitation . There are many things here that gratify me exceedingly , -in the first place , the pupils have done remarkably well . You have an advantage here not equalled in any other School in England of 5.
... render your conduct worthy of imitation . There are many things here that gratify me exceedingly , -in the first place , the pupils have done remarkably well . You have an advantage here not equalled in any other School in England of 5.
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Page 9 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.
Page 6 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 6 - They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 19 - IF from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other touches it ; the rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts the circle, and the part of it without the circle, shall be equal to the square of the line which touches it.
Page 17 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and also one side of the one equal to the corresponding side of the other, the triangles are congruent.
Page 15 - IF a straight line be divided into two equal, and also into two unequal parts; the squares of the two unequal parts are together double of the square of half the line, and of the square of the line between the points of section.
Page 15 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares described upon the sides which contain the right angle.
Page 13 - To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square on the other part.