Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners: Together with Appendices, Volume 23

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Eyre and Spottiswoode., 1879
 

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Page 495 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle; the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Page 453 - The angles in the same segment of a circle are equal to one another.
Page 493 - In some fair body thus th' informing soul With spirits feeds, with vigour fills the whole, Each motion guides, and every nerve sustains; Itself unseen, but in th' effects remains. Some, to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, Want as much more to turn it to its use; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
Page 494 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, 120 And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 316 - MACKENZIE. Studies in Roman Law. With Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland. By Lord MACKENZIE, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland.
Page 511 - This I take to be the most rational and most profitable way of learning languages, and whereby we may best hope to give account to God of our youth spent herein.
Page 548 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares described upon the sides which contain the right angle.
Page 418 - IF two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 418 - IF a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another...
Page 6 - Consent of Her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the Right...

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