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, Volume 1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - Arithmetic - 458 pages Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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... perfon , called the vocative cafe . Thus in the answer to this queftion , Who conquered the Perfians ? -Alexander ; that " is , Alexander conquered them . 3 Every Every noun in the poffeffive cafe has also some noun 32 OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... perfon , called the vocative cafe . Thus in the answer to this queftion , Who conquered the Perfians ? -Alexander ; that " is , Alexander conquered them . 3 Every Every noun in the poffeffive cafe has also some noun 32 OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... Answer . I return you my fincere thanks for the kind attention you fhew me . It fhall always be my study and am- bition to follow your inftructions . I never write a letter to JJ any any of my friends , but I pay a particular 80 OF ...
... Answer . I return you my fincere thanks for the kind attention you fhew me . It fhall always be my study and am- bition to follow your inftructions . I never write a letter to JJ any any of my friends , but I pay a particular 80 OF ...
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... answer to your favour of the 20th inftant , fent you the articles you ordered . Should you think proper to favour me with your orders , I have no doubt but I fhall give you ample fatisfaction . I am , Sir , Your obliged Servant , & c ...
... answer to your favour of the 20th inftant , fent you the articles you ordered . Should you think proper to favour me with your orders , I have no doubt but I fhall give you ample fatisfaction . I am , Sir , Your obliged Servant , & c ...
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... Answer . I am very forry to hear of your prefent diffi- culties . I defire you will call upon me to - morrow , when I hope I fhall be able to accommodate you with the fum you want ; or , if I cannot furnish you with the whole , I can ...
... Answer . I am very forry to hear of your prefent diffi- culties . I defire you will call upon me to - morrow , when I hope I fhall be able to accommodate you with the fum you want ; or , if I cannot furnish you with the whole , I can ...
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... answer . 24640 10274 98 560 172480 49280 246400 253151360 5 Qu . How many folid feet does a piece of timber con- tain , that is forty feet in length , four in breadth , and three in depth ? Here the general rule is , to multiply the ...
... answer . 24640 10274 98 560 172480 49280 246400 253151360 5 Qu . How many folid feet does a piece of timber con- tain , that is forty feet in length , four in breadth , and three in depth ? Here the general rule is , to multiply the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 208 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 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...
Page 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.