Moffatt's pupil teachers' course (ed. by T. Page). Candidates, 2nd (-4th) year |
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... QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION . The following questions are selected from previous Govern- ment Examination Papers . The answers to a few of them are here given as models . 1. Though the area of the Pacific is much the larger of the two ...
... QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION . The following questions are selected from previous Govern- ment Examination Papers . The answers to a few of them are here given as models . 1. Though the area of the Pacific is much the larger of the two ...
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... Questions set at Examinations for Pupil Teachers . THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION . By the Constitution of a country is meant the system by which its government is carried on . Properly speaking , the term is only used in reference to a ...
... Questions set at Examinations for Pupil Teachers . THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION . By the Constitution of a country is meant the system by which its government is carried on . Properly speaking , the term is only used in reference to a ...
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... questions from the prosecuting counsel and sometimes from the judge . The counsel for the defence cross - examines ... question now and then when he deems it necessary in order to elicit the truth . The prisoner is not allowed to give ...
... questions from the prosecuting counsel and sometimes from the judge . The counsel for the defence cross - examines ... question now and then when he deems it necessary in order to elicit the truth . The prisoner is not allowed to give ...
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... questions of the day . The greater part of the members belongs to two of these bodies , or parties , as they are called . These two great political parties are : - name . ( 1 ) Whigs , or Liberals . The latter is the more modern The ...
... questions of the day . The greater part of the members belongs to two of these bodies , or parties , as they are called . These two great political parties are : - name . ( 1 ) Whigs , or Liberals . The latter is the more modern The ...
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... Question No. 21 , page 144. ) The student of English history will have ob- served the extreme importance which our forefathers attached to establishing the doctrine that Englishmen are not to be taxed without their own consent , given ...
... Question No. 21 , page 144. ) The student of English history will have ob- served the extreme importance which our forefathers attached to establishing the doctrine that Englishmen are not to be taxed without their own consent , given ...
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A B C acres annum Antarctic Ocean Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Bolivia Brazil breadth called Cape Caribbean Sea chief circle coast compound interest connected cube root diagonal diameter divided east England English equation examples Exercise feet figure Find the area flowing gnomon Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream height Hence islands Lake land language length linear units miles MOFFATT'S Mountains Multiply Pacific Ocean parallel Parliament perpendicular population port principal produce Pupil Teachers quadratic equation radius rate per cent rectangle A B rectangle contained right angle River Rule of Three Saxon sentence side simple interest South America square on A C straight line Strait surface town twice the rectangle verb whole winds words Write yards
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Page 263 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 207 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 210 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 211 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, 2 committeth himself to prison...
Page 263 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief fiieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth it...
Page 251 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 246 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 209 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 305 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 218 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.