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... fair examination , but the lower classes still continue in the same unsatisfactory state : few in the second class could do a sum correctly in simple subtraction , or write down figures correctly from dictation . A slight improvement ...
... fair examination , but the lower classes still continue in the same unsatisfactory state : few in the second class could do a sum correctly in simple subtraction , or write down figures correctly from dictation . A slight improvement ...
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... fair examination ; the lower classes are de- ficient in their knowledge of arithmetic , and have not had sufficient pains bestowed upon them ; the discipline is bad . The girls ' school has been subject to considerable disadvantages ...
... fair examination ; the lower classes are de- ficient in their knowledge of arithmetic , and have not had sufficient pains bestowed upon them ; the discipline is bad . The girls ' school has been subject to considerable disadvantages ...
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... fair examination , but the lower classes still continue in the same unsatisfactory state : few in the second class could do a sum correctly in simple subtraction , or write down figures correctly from dictation . A slight improvement ...
... fair examination , but the lower classes still continue in the same unsatisfactory state : few in the second class could do a sum correctly in simple subtraction , or write down figures correctly from dictation . A slight improvement ...
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... fair examination ; the lower classes are de- ficient in their knowledge of arithmetic , and have not had sufficient pains bestowed upon them ; the discipline is bad . The girls ' school has been subject to considerable disadvantages ...
... fair examination ; the lower classes are de- ficient in their knowledge of arithmetic , and have not had sufficient pains bestowed upon them ; the discipline is bad . The girls ' school has been subject to considerable disadvantages ...
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... fair ; more care than usual has been taken in order to make the children pronounce their words distinctly . Great Ryburgh . - A mixed school under a master : supply of books and maps defective . The first class passed a fair examination ...
... fair ; more care than usual has been taken in order to make the children pronounce their words distinctly . Great Ryburgh . - A mixed school under a master : supply of books and maps defective . The first class passed a fair examination ...
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Page 739 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 766 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 767 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 628 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Page 628 - Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Page 764 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.
Page 274 - ... or mistress of which may be unable to conduct an apprentice even through the foregoing course of instruction. Their Lordships being desirous so to adapt their regulations to the condition of such schools, as by their improvement to enable them hereafter to provide for the training of pupil teachers, are disposed for a few years to encourage the managers to retain their monitors, by small stipends, to the age of seventeen, without apprenticeship, but under a form of agreement with the parents,...
Page 763 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16.
Page 810 - 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 321 - His attempt to obtain an index to the crime of the various counties and districts of England and Wales which would not be affected by the migration of the "depraved" is interesting. He tries to make allowances for the "influence of the denser populations rather to assemble the demoralized than to breed an excess of demoralization.