The parent's guide to a liberal ... education; containing a selection of questions. [With] Prospectus of the course of education pursued by ... Robert Simson ... at Colebrooke house academy |
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Pàgina 30
... Rule I. With what does a verb agree ? A verb agrees with its nominative in number and person . How is the nominative to a verb known ? The nominative to a verb is known by putting the question Who ? or What ? to the verb ; as , I sing ...
... Rule I. With what does a verb agree ? A verb agrees with its nominative in number and person . How is the nominative to a verb known ? The nominative to a verb is known by putting the question Who ? or What ? to the verb ; as , I sing ...
Pàgina 31
... Rule II . Why do two or more substantives singular , denoting different things , require a plural verb ? Two or more substantives singular , being equivalent to a plural , re- quire a plural verb and plural representatives . Cato and ...
... Rule II . Why do two or more substantives singular , denoting different things , require a plural verb ? Two or more substantives singular , being equivalent to a plural , re- quire a plural verb and plural representatives . Cato and ...
Pàgina 32
... Rule III . Is a plural verb employed , when of two or more sub- stantives , one exclusively is the object of discourse ? When of two or more substantives singular , one exclu- sively is the subject of discourse , a verb singular is em ...
... Rule III . Is a plural verb employed , when of two or more sub- stantives , one exclusively is the object of discourse ? When of two or more substantives singular , one exclu- sively is the subject of discourse , a verb singular is em ...
Pàgina 35
... rule to be observed with regard to propriety ? Avoid such words and expressions as are low and vulgar , or tend to excite mean conceptions ; as to see a thing with half an eye , to get into a scrape ; which should be , to see a thing at ...
... rule to be observed with regard to propriety ? Avoid such words and expressions as are low and vulgar , or tend to excite mean conceptions ; as to see a thing with half an eye , to get into a scrape ; which should be , to see a thing at ...
Pàgina 50
... rule or law , and therefore signifies the laws of the stars . What does this science teach ? It teaches the names and places of all the most remarkable stars , as also the motions of the sun and all the planets . How many kinds of ...
... rule or law , and therefore signifies the laws of the stars . What does this science teach ? It teaches the names and places of all the most remarkable stars , as also the motions of the sun and all the planets . How many kinds of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 12 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Pàgina 15 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Pàgina 17 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Pàgina 7 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Pàgina 9 - And GOD made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters, which were above the firmament, and it was so. And GOD called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Pàgina 13 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Pàgina 26 - Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur Iambus ; Pes citus ; unde etiam trimetris accrescere jussit Nomen lambeis, quum senos redderet ictus, Primus ad extremum similis sibi : non ita pridem, Tardior ut paulo graviorque veniret ad aures, 255 Spondees stabiles in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens ; non ut de sede secunda Cederet aut quarta socialiter.
Pàgina 7 - Let there be light : and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness.
Pàgina 105 - To find the area of a trapezoid, multiply half the sum of the parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them ; the product will be the area.
Pàgina 110 - ... it is so pleasing, that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain it, and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from Science is exactly of the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been spoken of is, in fact, Science, which in its most comprehensive sense only means Knowledge, and in its ordinary sense means Knowledge reduced to a System ; that is, arranged in a regular order, so as to be conveniently taught, easily remembered,...