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الصفحة 85 - Two triangles are similar, if an angle of one equals an angle of the other and the sides including these angles are proportional.
الصفحة 10 - The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have had one year's systematic training, with three lessons a week, or its equivalent.
الصفحة 18 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been...
الصفحة 18 - The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And...
الصفحة 17 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game at chess.
الصفحة 21 - A detective policeman discovers a burglar by the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones. Nor does that process of induction and deduction by which a lady, finding a stain of a peculiar kind upon her dress, concludes, that somebody has upset the inkstand thereon, differ in any way, in kind, from that by which Adams and Leverrier discovered a new planet.
الصفحة 18 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
الصفحة 5 - Universities, the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools...
الصفحة 10 - Latin in a systematic school course of five lessons each week, extending through, two, three, or four years. The paper will include passages of Latin prose and verse of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated at sight, and passages for Latin composition of varying degrees of difficulty. Accompanying the different passages set upon the paper will be questions on forms, syntax, and the idioms of the language, as well as questions on the subject matter, literary and historical, connected with...
الصفحة 72 - Talia carminibus celebrant, super omnia Caci Speluncam adiciunt spirantemque ignibus ipsum. Consonat omne nemus strepitu collesque resultant. Exin se cuncti divinis rebus ad urbem Perfectis referunt. Ibat rex obsitus aevo Et comitem Aenean iuxta natumque tenebat Ingrediens varioque viam sermone levabat. Miratur facilisque oculos fert omnia circum Aeneas capiturque locis et singula laetus Exquiritque auditque virum monumenta priorum.

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