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, Τόμος 1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - 458 σελίδες Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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Σελίδα iv
... proper to mention , that I have endea- voured to infert all the modern improvements , in eack of the fubjects , that appeared of any confiderable utility . The errors unavoidable in works of this nature , abounding with calculations , I ...
... proper to mention , that I have endea- voured to infert all the modern improvements , in eack of the fubjects , that appeared of any confiderable utility . The errors unavoidable in works of this nature , abounding with calculations , I ...
Σελίδα 3
... proper founds were found to be wanting . The Phoenician , Hebrew , Greek , and Roman alphabets are fo much alike in the figures and names of the letters , as plainly to evince they were originally derived from the fame . By the ufe of ...
... proper founds were found to be wanting . The Phoenician , Hebrew , Greek , and Roman alphabets are fo much alike in the figures and names of the letters , as plainly to evince they were originally derived from the fame . By the ufe of ...
Σελίδα 4
... proper found is the fame as u in the Italian , ou in the French , or oo in the English .. Sometimes it is not founded at all after o , sometimes like au . X is a double confonant , compofed of a hard c or k , and s ; and at the ...
... proper found is the fame as u in the Italian , ou in the French , or oo in the English .. Sometimes it is not founded at all after o , sometimes like au . X is a double confonant , compofed of a hard c or k , and s ; and at the ...
Σελίδα 7
... Proper and Common . Proper names are fuch as belong to individual objects , whether animate or inanimate ; but not to every individual or object of the fame fort or fpecies : thus , John is the name of a man , but not the name of every ...
... Proper and Common . Proper names are fuch as belong to individual objects , whether animate or inanimate ; but not to every individual or object of the fame fort or fpecies : thus , John is the name of a man , but not the name of every ...
Σελίδα 8
... proper , are confidered with relation to gender , as being either of the mafculine , feminine , or neuter gender . That is , either of the male or female fex , or neither . The masculine or feminine genders are applied to the names of ...
... proper , are confidered with relation to gender , as being either of the mafculine , feminine , or neuter gender . That is , either of the male or female fex , or neither . The masculine or feminine genders are applied to the names of ...
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adjective adverb againſt alfo alſo angle anſwer caſe characters confifts confonants convex lens decimal denomination diſtance divided dividend divifion divifor Engliſh equal Example exprefs faid fame manner farthings fecond feen feet fenfe fentence feven fhall fhillings fhould fide figure fimple fingle fingular firft firſt folid fome fometimes foregoing fpeaker fquare fraction ftands fubftantive fubject fubtracted fuch gallons given number glafs glaſs inches inftrument intereft interfections laft laſt learner lefs lens letters meaſure microſcope mirror mode moft moſt muft multiply muſt neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun obferved objective cafe oppofite paffing participle paſt pence perfon perpendicular placed pleaſe plural pofition pounds prefent prepofition pronoun purpoſe queſtion quotient rays repreſented rule of three ſeen ſmall ſtands ſtation teleſcope thefe theſe third perfon thofe thoſe thou thouſand trapeziums triangle uſed verb vowel Vulgar Fractions whofe whoſe words yards
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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 208 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.