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The Philosophy of Arithmetic (Considered as a Branch of Mathematical Science) And the Elements of Algebra: Designed for the Use of Schools, and in Aid of Private Instruction. E-book. Formato PDF John Walker - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
But as generally taught, arithmetic has been degraded from the rank of science, and converted into an art almost mechanical; useful indeed in the compting-house, but affording more efiercise to the fingersthan to the understanding. It IS commonly taught by persons, who are rather expert Clerks than men of Science, and are themselves strangers to the rational principles of the most common operations which they perform. The absurd questions current among them about the product ofnzoney multiplied by money, 85c. Afford a sufficient exemplification of this remark. Thus, while there are few things which chil dren' are more generally taught, than the technical art of calculation, perhaps there are few things of which men are more generally ignorant, than the Science of 'arithmetic and this ignorance indeed is betrayed by their contempt of it, as a branch of study beneath a scholar.
A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. E-book. Formato PDF John Walker - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language naturally suggested an idea of the present work. Proper names from the Greek and Latin form so considerable a part of every cultivated living language, that a Dictionary seems to be imperfect without them. Polite scholars, indeed, are seldom at a loss for the pronunciation of words they so frequently meet with in the learned languages; but there are great numbers of respectable English scholars, who, having only a tincture of classical learning, are much at a loss for a knowledge of this part of it. It is not only the learned professions that require this knowledge, but almost every one above the merely mechanical. The professors of painting, statuary, and music, and those who admire their works - readers of history, politics, poetry - all who converse on subjects ever so little above the vulgar, have so frequent occasion to pronounce these proper names, that whatever tends to render this pronunciation easy must necessarily be acceptable to the Public.The proper names in Scripture have still a higher claim to our attention.
A Rhyming Dictionary: Answering at the Same Time the Purposes of Spelling and Pronouncing the English Language on a Plan Not Hitherto Attempted. E-book. Formato PDF John Walker - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
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