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Side x
... simple letter grammatically . ( a ) Handwriting . - This , say the Commissioners , should con- sist in " the clear formation of the letters of the alphabet . It should be rapid , neat , and of that even stroke which allows legible ...
... simple letter grammatically . ( a ) Handwriting . - This , say the Commissioners , should con- sist in " the clear formation of the letters of the alphabet . It should be rapid , neat , and of that even stroke which allows legible ...
Side xvi
... simple nomination ; and we may add , that we cannot doubt that , if it be adopted as a usual course to nominate several candidates to compete for each vacancy , the expectation of this ordeal will act most beneficially on the education ...
... simple nomination ; and we may add , that we cannot doubt that , if it be adopted as a usual course to nominate several candidates to compete for each vacancy , the expectation of this ordeal will act most beneficially on the education ...
Side xxiv
... simple character in English Composition , designed to test ability to write an ordinary business letter . ( Patronage vested in Colonial Secretary . Lowest salary , £ 50 . ) COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION . ( Age 18 to 25. ) 1 ...
... simple character in English Composition , designed to test ability to write an ordinary business letter . ( Patronage vested in Colonial Secretary . Lowest salary , £ 50 . ) COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION . ( Age 18 to 25. ) 1 ...
Side xxxii
... simple character . ( Patronage vested in the President . Lowest salary , £ 80 . ) TREASURY . I. ESTABLISHMENT CLERKS . ( Age 18 to 25. ) 1 Exercises designed to test Hand - writing and Orthography . Good hand - writing to consist in the ...
... simple character . ( Patronage vested in the President . Lowest salary , £ 80 . ) TREASURY . I. ESTABLISHMENT CLERKS . ( Age 18 to 25. ) 1 Exercises designed to test Hand - writing and Orthography . Good hand - writing to consist in the ...
Side 14
... simple interest , will 9517. 7s . 6d . amount to 1,1417 . 13s . in five years . 23 Find the discount on 59.17 . 14s . 9d . , due 8 months hence , at 52 per cent . simple interest . 24 When the Three per Cents . are at 857. 17s . 6d ...
... simple interest , will 9517. 7s . 6d . amount to 1,1417 . 13s . in five years . 23 Find the discount on 59.17 . 14s . 9d . , due 8 months hence , at 52 per cent . simple interest . 24 When the Three per Cents . are at 857. 17s . 6d ...
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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.