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It loves vitality above all things, sometimes disguised by affected languor, always well kept under by the laws of good-breeding, but still it loves abundant life, opulent and showy organizations, the spherical rather than the plane trigonometry of female architecture, plenty of red blood, flashing eyes, tropical voices, and forms that bear the splendors of dress without growing pale beneath their lustre.
He had made it an argument of posts; and conducted his reasoning upon principles of trigonometry, as well as logic. There were certain detached data, like advanced works, to keep the enemy at a distance from the main object in debate. Strong provisions covered the flanks of his assertions. His very queries were in casements.
In 1,511 public and private high schools and seminaries, reporting to the Bureau of Education in 1909-1910, a larger percentage of boys than of girls was enrolled in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, physical geography, civil government and rhetoric, which is a scientific study of language.
We needn't trouble ourselves anything about Latin and Greek, and trigonometry and algebra. We shall go in for a good time generally." "It is all moonshine; it can't be done. What's the use of talking about such a thing?" said Wilton. "It can be done, and it shall be," replied Shuffles, stamping his foot on the deck. "How?" "I am not quite ready to tell you yet."
Undoubtedly the beneficial result, the great practical application of Political Economy, would be to accomplish for a nation something like what the most perfect domestic economy accomplishes for a single household: but supposing this purpose realised, there would be the same difference between the rules by which it might be effected, and Political Economy, which there is between the art of gunnery and the theory of projectiles, or between the rules of mathematical land-surveying and the science of trigonometry.
It so happened that the year before I had to sit for my examinations, a young University student in his first year, who had been only one class in front of the rest of us, offered us afternoon instruction in trigonometry and spherical geometry gratis, and all who appreciated the help that was being offered to them streamed to his lessons.
In point of fact we were north-west, so that they should have turned" his thumbs began to turn and his voice to take on the Talmudic sing-song "south-east. I told them it was easy in each city to compute the exact turning, by corners and circles " "By spherical trigonometry, certainly," said Mendelssohn pleasantly.
Here, though I learned to fill my glass, and to mix without fear in a drunken squabble, yet I went on with a high hand with my geometry, till the sun entered Virgo, a month which is always a carnival in my bosom, when a charming fillette, who lived next door to the school, overset my trigonometry, and set me off at a tangent from the spheres of my studies.
This book is still in existence and so far as I know has never been equaled by the performance of any infant prodigy, save possibly John Stuart Mill. When twelve years of age he had read Vergil, Sallust, Tacitus, Ovid, Juvenal and Catullus. He had also mastered trigonometry, surveying, navigation, geometry and differential calculus.
His long, lanky legs were made for striding after culprits, and his arms for caning them. He taught, among other things, the classics, of course, the English language grammatically, arithmetic in all its branches, book-keeping in the Italian manner, and the elements of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry with their applications to surveying and navigation.