American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Tom 2Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... things themselves , not from my shamefacedness , ignorance , or error . See the articles REASON and REASONING . ARGUMENT , in astronomy , denotes a known arch , by means of which we seek another one unknown . The argument of the moon's ...
... things themselves , not from my shamefacedness , ignorance , or error . See the articles REASON and REASONING . ARGUMENT , in astronomy , denotes a known arch , by means of which we seek another one unknown . The argument of the moon's ...
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... thing by numbers ; Pythagoras himself affirming , that the nature of num- bers pervades the whole universe , and that the knowledge of numbers is the knowledge of the Deity . From Egypt arithmetic was transmitted to the Greeks by ...
... thing by numbers ; Pythagoras himself affirming , that the nature of num- bers pervades the whole universe , and that the knowledge of numbers is the knowledge of the Deity . From Egypt arithmetic was transmitted to the Greeks by ...
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... thing as ten in the place immediately lower . Rule . Write the numbers distinctly , units under units , tens under tens , and so on . Then reckon the amount of the right- hand column ; if it be under ten , mark it down : if it exceed ...
... thing as ten in the place immediately lower . Rule . Write the numbers distinctly , units under units , tens under tens , and so on . Then reckon the amount of the right- hand column ; if it be under ten , mark it down : if it exceed ...
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... thing as to add the multiplicand 60 times ; and this might be done by writing the account at large , dividing the column into 10 parts of 6 lines , finding the sum of each part , and adding these ten sums together . If the multiplier ...
... thing as to add the multiplicand 60 times ; and this might be done by writing the account at large , dividing the column into 10 parts of 6 lines , finding the sum of each part , and adding these ten sums together . If the multiplier ...
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... thing , 45 divided by 7 , gives a quotient of 6 , and a remain- der of 3. If the divisor do not exceed 12 , we readily find the highest multiplier that can be used from the multiplication table . If it exceed 12 , we may try any ...
... thing , 45 divided by 7 , gives a quotient of 6 , and a remain- der of 3. If the divisor do not exceed 12 , we readily find the highest multiplier that can be used from the multiplication table . If it exceed 12 , we may try any ...
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Strona 22 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Strona 22 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...