London university matriculation examination. What to read, and how to read it

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Sivu xviii - ... grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear; He read the third; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth; he broke into a roar; The fifth; his waistband split; The sixth; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
Sivu 76 - I. 25. 5. If none of the consequences so deduced be known to be either true or false, proceed to deduce other consequences from all or any of these, as in (2). 6. Examine these results, and proceed as in (3) and (4) ; and if still without any conclusive indications of the truth or falsehood of the alleged theorem, proceed still further, until such are obtained.
Sivu 24 - The main object is to enable a beginner to acquire an accurate knowledge of the chief grammatical forms, to learn their usage by constructing simple sentences as soon as he commences the study of the language, and to accumulate gradually a stock of words useful in conversation as well as in reading.
Sivu 82 - Non-Metallic elements ; including their compounds as enumerated below — their chief physical and chemical characters — their preparation — and their characteristic tests. Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen. Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, Fluorine. Sulphur, Phosphorus, Silicon. Combining Proportions by Weight and by Volume. General nature of Acids, Bases, and Salts. Symbols and Nomenclature. The Atmosphere — its constitution : effects of Animal and Vegetable life upon its composition. Combustion....
Sivu 72 - From the nature of the subject, it must be at once obvious, that no general rules can be prescribed, which will be found applicable in all cases, and infallibly lead to the solution of every problem. The conditions of problems must suggest what constructions may be possible ; and the consequences which follow from these constructions and the assumed solution, will shew the possibility or impossibility of arriving at some known property consistent with the data of the problem. Though the data of a...
Sivu 30 - Greek and one Latin subject, to be selected by the Senate one year and a half previously from the works of the undermentioned authors : — * Homer - One Book.
Sivu 58 - Differing from the ordinary grammars, all German words are printed in Roman, and not in the old German characters. The latter add to the difficulty of a learner, and as the Roman letters are not only used by many modern German writers, but also in Grimm's great Dictionary and Grammar, there seems no reason why the beginner, especially the native of a foreign country, who has learnt his own language in the Roman letters, should be any longer debarred from the advantage of this innovation. It is believed...
Sivu 87 - Heat : its Sources ; Expansion ; Thermometers —relations between different Scales in common use ; difference between Temperature and Quantity of Heat ; Specific and Latent Heat-Calorimeters ; Liquefaction ; Ebullition ; Evaporation ; Conduction ; Convection ; Eadiation.
Sivu xii - La Patrie, Quel mot puissant et magique que celui de Patrie ! et comme il éveille dans notre pensée une image pleine tout à la fois de douceur et de majesté ! Voici la Patrie : cette maison où votre âme s'est épanouie sous les regards attendris d'un père, qui reste toujours embaumée pour vous du parfum des baisers maternels • ces chemins que vos premiers pas ont foulés si gaiement ; ces horizons connus, ces eaux courantes et ces bois, tous ces chers...

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