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Seite 3 - CAVALRY CATECHISM, or Instructions on Cavalry Exercise and Field Movements, Brigade Movements, Out-post Duty, Cavalry supporting Artillery, Artillery attached to Cavalry. 12mo.
Seite 15 - Hall's Trigonometry. The Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. With an Appendix, containing the solution of the Problems in Nautical Astronomy. For the use of Schools. By the REV. TG HALL, MA, Professor of Mathematics in King's College, London. 12mo. 2s.
Seite 14 - With Additions by Professors AGASSIZ, PIERCE, and GRAY; 12 Maps and Engravings on Steel, some Coloured, and copious Index.
Seite 4 - SIERRA LEONE ; Described in Letters to Friends at Home. By A LADY. Post SvO. 6s. 6d. SIMMONS (CAPT. TF) on the Constitution and Practice of Courts- Martial; with a Summary of the Law of Evidence as connected therewith, and some Notice of the Criminal Law of England, with reference to the Trial of Civil OBences.
Seite 9 - With this assistance no further doubt can exist, but it should not be applied to at first. It can only be legitimately used to test the correctness of what has been done, and ought never to be tolerated to work by." — Author. Construction of the Modern System, with an Introduction, giving Directions in the choice of Mounting Boards and Paper, and for Drawing, Shading, and Colouring, cost of the Masonry, &c. With 6 plates printed in 3 colours, and partially coloured by hand. Octavo. 1852. 6s.
Seite 89 - If the Candidate be a member of the Church of England, he will have to produce a certificate of having been confirmed ; if not a member of the Church of England, he will be required to produce a certificate from a minister or...
Seite 98 - ... entering the seminary. No person who has been dismissed the Army or Navy, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal .Military Academy at Woolwich, or...
Seite 103 - Geography, so as to be able to state the general divisions of the world, the name of the capital of each nation in Europe, and the principal rivers, sea-ports, and military posts in Great Britain, Ireland, and Her Majesty's Dominions in every part of the world.
Seite 98 - The following are the points upon which candidates are to be examined before they are passed as cadets : — 1. Each candidate will be required to write English correctly from dictation. 2. He should possess a competent knowledge of the ordinary rules of arithmetic, including the rule of three, compound proportion, simple and compound interest, vulgar and decimal fractions, and the extraction of the square root. He should also have read the first three books of Euclid. 3. In languages he should be...
Seite 89 - ... he must possess a knowledge of the general divisions of the world; the name of the capital of each nation in Europe, the principal rivers, sea-ports, and military posts in Great Britain and Ireland, Her Majesty's Dominions in every part of the world (Butler's Geography).