Guide to the civil service examinations [by H. White].1856 |
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Side iii
... questions contained in such papers . The Publisher hopes that the collection in this volume will be equally serviceable in directing and concentrating the studies of all candidates for employment in the Civil Service . In this hope he ...
... questions contained in such papers . The Publisher hopes that the collection in this volume will be equally serviceable in directing and concentrating the studies of all candidates for employment in the Civil Service . In this hope he ...
Side iv
... questions have been forwarded direct from the Government office , that they might be better prepared , in case they should desire to compete a second time . It will be clearly understood that the papers are different at every ...
... questions have been forwarded direct from the Government office , that they might be better prepared , in case they should desire to compete a second time . It will be clearly understood that the papers are different at every ...
Side xi
... questions in division of decimals so framed as to present no difficulty whatever , except as to the position of the decimal point . Even these questions have been rarely attempted , and still more rarely attempted with success . " The ...
... questions in division of decimals so framed as to present no difficulty whatever , except as to the position of the decimal point . Even these questions have been rarely attempted , and still more rarely attempted with success . " The ...
Side xii
... subjects an amount of knowledge , certainly not exceeding what would be gained at schools of the most moderate pretensions , has been received as sufficient . 66 " Questions have been set of very different degrees xii INTRODUCTION .
... subjects an amount of knowledge , certainly not exceeding what would be gained at schools of the most moderate pretensions , has been received as sufficient . 66 " Questions have been set of very different degrees xii INTRODUCTION .
Side xiii
Henry White. 66 " Questions have been set of very different degrees of difficulty , and a most erroneous idea would be formed as to the standard which has been fixed , were it supposed that any large proportion of a paper had in a single ...
Henry White. 66 " Questions have been set of very different degrees of difficulty , and a most erroneous idea would be formed as to the standard which has been fixed , were it supposed that any large proportion of a paper had in a single ...
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15 Find 1st Examination acres Admiralty annum Arithmetic including Vulgar Bought Britain British Calculate the duty candidate cent Civil Service coal Colonies Commissioners compound interest Correspondence cost countries crown Decimal Fractions Describe double entry dwts England English Composition English History Explain feet Find the amount Find the interest Find the value France French Geography George Give some account Glossop Glossop union gross guardians guinea house of Stuart inches income tax Joseph Gillott King Latin ledger letter Lords Lowest salary lowest terms miles obtain OFFICE Paid paper Patronage vested Poor Law Board port wine pound pound sterling Précis reams Recd Reduce reign respectively Rule of Three simple interest Smith Sold for cash square yards subjects Swinton tare tons towns troy Troy weight value in money Vulgar and Decimal Vulgar Fractions weight workhouse worth Writing from Dictation
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Side 70 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Side 57 - To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square on the other part.
Side 58 - After half a century, during which England had been of scarcely more weight in European politics than Venice or Saxony, she at once became the most formidable power in the world, dictated terms of peace to the United Provinces, avenged the common injuries of Christendom on the pirates of Barbary, vanquished the Spaniards by land and sea, seized one of the finest West India islands, and acquired on the Flemish coast a fortress which consoled the national pride for the loss of Calais.
Side 62 - During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses, nine Kings reigned in England. Six of these nine Kings were deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns.
Side 91 - Sir, — Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the...
Side 85 - March, 1853. I am directed by the Poor Law Board to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, in which you...
Side 57 - It is not so with Him that all things knows, As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows; But most it is presumption in us, when The help of Heaven we count the act of men.
Side 57 - The angles which one straight line makes with another upon one side of it, are either two right angles, or are together equal to two right angles.
Side xxii - OFFICE. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar Fractions). 3. English Composition. SEAMEN'S REGISTRY OFFICE. (The same as for " Supplementary Clerks" in the Board of Trade.) TRADE.
Side xx - CLERKS IN THE SOLICITOR'S OFFICE. 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4.