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Every arm that carried a musket from those States, was a certain integral portion of their wealth and prosperity. The great cities of the seaboard could spare a thousand men with far less loss than would accrue to any of the States I have mentioned, by the subtraction of a hundred.
The next question is ways and means. Old Bixby's method in St. X looks good to me. A conditional contribution what do you say?" "How much?" inquired the practical Mrs. Jim. Jim took out an envelope, did sums in subtraction and division and held out the result to his wife. She took it from him, did a sum herself in multiplication and exhibited that result to him.
"We are the best arithmeticians in the world," said Augustus, as he pouched his share; "addition, subtraction, division, reduction, we have them all as pat as 'The Tutor's Assistant; and, what is better, we make them all applicable to the Rule of Three." "You have left out multiplication!" said Clifford, smiling. "Ah! because that works differently.
Fourth: That increase or decrease in the cost of distributing food from the wholesaler to the door of the ultimate consumer is a deduction or addition predominantly to the consumer's cost; that is, the margin between the wholesaler and consumer in its increases or decreases is largely an addition or subtraction from the consumer's price.
Addition, subtraction, and multiplication were carried on by means of numbers, given out with so much vivacity and judgment that every eye was fastened on the teacher and every mind alert. Most of the right hands were raised for answer to every question, with the index finger extended; and the pupil selected was chosen now here, now there, to give it audibly.
What I understood best was subtraction, for that has a very practical rule: ‘Four can’t be taken from three, therefore I must borrow one.’ But I advise every one in such a case to borrow a few extra pence, for no one can tell what may happen. . . . As for Latin, you have no idea, madam, what a complicated affair it is.
Such enormous crimes were sure to reap a bloody harvest. The Indian is no fool, although he can't do addition and subtraction. He knows when he is about fairly dealt with, and he knows when he is mightily plucked. In this case of the 'old debt payment' he knew that he was robbed wholesale, and through the mouth of Red Iron he proclaimed the fact to Governor Ramsey, in council assembled.
Battersea is so far off, the roads so execrable, and the rain so incessant.... There is not a yard of flagging, I believe, in all Battersea." "Here is my programme for this afternoon: Avalanches The Steam-Engine The Thames India-Rubber Bricks The Battle of Poictiers Subtraction The Reindeer The Gunpowder Plot The Jordan. Alluring, is it not?
'The just price of things, says Aquinas, 'is not fixed with mathematical precision, but depends on a kind of estimate, so that a slight addition or subtraction would not seem to destroy the equality of justice, Caepolla repeats this dictum, with the reservation that, when the just price is fixed by law, it must be rigorously observed.
Letters and spelling from the lesson-posts. Play. Gallery; repeat the addition and subtraction tables. Afternoon. Prayer and hymn. Multiplication table; the monitor asking the question, and the children answering. Reading lessons. Play. Gallery; numeration and spelling with brass figures and letters. Morning. Prayer and hymn. Letters and spelling. Play.
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