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Seite 15 - Melrose's Concise System of Practical Arithmetic; containing the Fundamental Rules and their Application to Mercantile Calculations ; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ; Exchanges ; Involution and. Evolution ; Progressions ; Annuities, Certain and Contingent, etc.
Seite 19 - Critical Remarks, in which the various Methods of Pronouncing employed by different Authors are investigated and compared with each other.
Seite 14 - Decimal Coinage have been added. Lessons in Arithmetic for Advanced Classes; Being a Continuation of the Lessons in Arithmetic for Junior Classes. Containing Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ; Simple and Compound Proportion, with their Applications ; Simple and Compound Interest ; Involution and Evolution, etc. By ALEXANDER TROTTER.
Seite 22 - Hunter's livy. Books XXI. to XXV. With Critical and Explanatory Notes. Reduced to 2s. Latin Prose Composition : The Construction of Clauses, with Illustrations from Cicero and Caesar; a Vocabulary containing an Explanation of every Word in the Text ; and an Index Verborum. By JOHN MASSIE, AM 3s.
Seite 7 - A DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, CONTAINING THE PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, AND EXPLANATION OF ALL WORDS AUTHORIZED BY EMINENT WRITERS ; To which are added, a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words, and an Accented Lat of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Seite 6 - Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford; Author of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, etc., etc. " Quite a practical work, and contains a vast quantity of important information, well arranged, and brought up to the present improved state of philology. I have never seen so much matter brought together in so short a space.
Seite 20 - KEY, Is. This work follows the natural mode in which a child learns to speak its own language, by repeating the same words and phrases in a great variety of forms until the pupil becomes familiar with their use. Caron's First French Reading-book: Being Easy and Interesting Lessons, progressively arranged. With a copious Vocabulary of the Words and Idioms in the text. Is.
Seite 9 - A COMPENDIUM OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY, POLITICAL, PHYSICAL, and MATHEMATICAL: With a Chapter on the Ancient Geography of Palestine, Outlines of Astronomy and of Geology, a Glossary of Geographical Names, Descriptive and Pronouncing Tables, Questions for Examination, etc. By the Rev. ALEX. STKWAET, LL.D. Carefully Revised. "With 11 Maps.
Seite 5 - Scries of Progressive Exercises, and a Supplementary Treatise on Analysis of Sentences. By Dr JAMES DOUGLAS, lately Teacher of English, Great King Street, Edinburgh. Is. 6d. Douglas's Initiatory Grammar, for JUNIOR CLASSES. Printed in larger type, and containing a Supplementary Treatise on Analysis of Sentences. 6d. Douglas's Progressive English Reader. A New Series of English Reading-Books.
Seite 10 - I. Outlines of Mathematical and Physical Geography. II. Physical, Political, and Commercial Geography of the British Islands. III. Physical, Political, and Commercial Geography of the British Colonies.