The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volumen1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - 458 páginas Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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... figure of a dead man , with another man ftanding over him , having an hostile , weapon in his hand . On the first discovery of America , this was the only kind of writing used by the Mexicans . The firft improvement made by our ...
... figure of a dead man , with another man ftanding over him , having an hostile , weapon in his hand . On the first discovery of America , this was the only kind of writing used by the Mexicans . The firft improvement made by our ...
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... figures , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , & c . afford us an example of th this fort of writing ; where each figure or character conveys the idea of the number for which it frands as clearly and intelli- gibly as the words themfelves , one , two ...
... figures , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , & c . afford us an example of th this fort of writing ; where each figure or character conveys the idea of the number for which it frands as clearly and intelli- gibly as the words themfelves , one , two ...
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... figures may be used to the fame purpose : as for example . a may be represented by 1 ; b , by 2 ; c , by 3 ; & c . as follows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 a , b , c , d , e , f , g , h , i , j , k ...
... figures may be used to the fame purpose : as for example . a may be represented by 1 ; b , by 2 ; c , by 3 ; & c . as follows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 a , b , c , d , e , f , g , h , i , j , k ...
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... figure 10 . Mr. Angel , in 1758 , published a fyftem of fhort hand , being an improvement on that of Mr. Gurney , and in the year 1762 , Meffrs . Swaine and Sims published their system , which was also an improvement on the fame author ...
... figure 10 . Mr. Angel , in 1758 , published a fyftem of fhort hand , being an improvement on that of Mr. Gurney , and in the year 1762 , Meffrs . Swaine and Sims published their system , which was also an improvement on the fame author ...
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... figures , and confequently in their due places ; alfo to read , or difcover , the true value of fuch number , when written . All numbers , and the various combinations of them , are noted by these ten characters , i one , 2 two , 3 ...
... figures , and confequently in their due places ; alfo to read , or difcover , the true value of fuch number , when written . All numbers , and the various combinations of them , are noted by these ten characters , i one , 2 two , 3 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverb againſt alfo alſo angle anſwer caſe characters confifts confonants convex lens decimal denomination diſtance divided dividend divifion divifor Engliſh equal Example exprefs faid fame manner farthings fecond feen feet fenfe fentence feven fhall fhillings fhould fide figure fimple fingle fingular firft firſt folid fome fometimes foregoing fpeaker fquare fraction ftands fubftantive fubject fubtracted fuch gallons given number glafs glaſs inches inftrument intereft interfections laft laſt learner lefs lens letters meaſure microſcope mirror mode moft moſt muft multiply muſt neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun obferved objective cafe oppofite paffing participle paſt pence perfon perpendicular placed pleaſe plural pofition pounds prefent prepofition pronoun purpoſe queſtion quotient rays repreſented rule of three ſeen ſmall ſtands ſtation teleſcope thefe theſe third perfon thofe thoſe thou thouſand trapeziums triangle uſed verb vowel Vulgar Fractions whofe whoſe words yards
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Página 66 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 51 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Página 65 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Página 66 - Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh ! there...
Página 112 - The prince went to Rome to defend his father; but coming into the senate and hearing a multitude of crimes proved upon him, was so oppressed when it came to his turn to speak that he was unable to utter a word.
Página 65 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página 111 - I know no two words that have been more abused by the different and wrong interpretations which are put upon them, than those two, modesty and assurance. To say, such a one is a modest man, sometimes indeed passes for a good character ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish, awkward fellow, who has neither good breeding, politeness, nor any knowledge of the world.
Página 208 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Página 112 - For this reason a man truly modest is as much so when he is alone as in company, and as subject to a blush in his closet, as when the eyes of multitudes are upon him. . , I do not remember to have met with any...
Página 48 - ... such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.