… Classics and Philology. 457 relative position to the goal. Proximus huic, quanto sed proximus intervallo! What " him and me," and our school-fellows accomplished…
… Classics and Philology. 457 relative position to the goal. Proximus huic, quanto sed proximus intervallo! What " him and me," and our school-fellows accomplished in those days, may be seen in the Oxford and Cambridge Calendars. What Salo¬ pians are doing nozv-a.-da.ys, in ditto, ditto, and in many fields of competition that have since been opened, " in usum studiosae juventutis." [For both, see Sabrinae Cor¬ olla.] I advise those who aim at the…
… 458 Old Price's Remains. halves of the same thing are equal" by Axiom 7th, as sure as every half of a penny will be…
… 458 Old Price's Remains. halves of the same thing are equal" by Axiom 7th, as sure as every half of a penny will be a halfpenny. But the question is, what is the thing we have divided ? One of the Marys has just told me that all the right angles in the world are the halves of 130 degrees. This is true; but must be explained before it can be understood by tvery…
… Mathematics* 459 each .of them would be a quarter of it. And so, If you did that 10,000 times with 10,000 other circles, all…
… Mathematics* 459 each .of them would be a quarter of it. And so, If you did that 10,000 times with 10,000 other circles, all the right angles would be halves of the very same number, and therefore, all 15 degrees; so, all equal. But I said the answer, H half of 1 go," was true ; so it is clear that our good friend (I mean the Geometer still, not " Long- shanks") did…
… 460 Old Price's Remains. there waiting for you : nothing as he is, yet he is never nowhere, always everywhere! Definitions 13th and 14th…
… 460 Old Price's Remains. there waiting for you : nothing as he is, yet he is never nowhere, always everywhere! Definitions 13th and 14th require no remark, except that an angle is not a figure. 15th. Some of my pupils say "by one straight line." Avoid the like : and don't say " straight lines drawn from the centre? before you have learnt what the centre is. 16th. Take the trouble of saying "The…
… Mathematics. 461 ders of others as well as your own, with the correction thereof. Those who make no mistakes are not always the deepest…
… Mathematics. 461 ders of others as well as your own, with the correction thereof. Those who make no mistakes are not always the deepest thinkers; so cheer up and " blunder on," as a muckled-missed old Scot used to say. The rest of the Book consists of propositions, i.e., things set before you, either to be done in some way, (e.g., made, drawn, des¬ cribed, inscribed, &c.,) or else to be proved true. If…
… 462 Old Prices Remains. absurd than to suppose there is such a thing as positive cold, the driving off or " keeping out" of…
… 462 Old Prices Remains. absurd than to suppose there is such a thing as positive cold, the driving off or " keeping out" of which makes things warmer; which yet I suspect a good number of adults believe at least as firmly as any article of their creed, especially during the prevalence of N.E. winds about Christmas. The old philosophers, (for no other class could ever have hit upon so thoughtful a blunder,) were…
… Mathematics. 463 positive, actual, or real that the subtraction of them causes diminution. For instance, a 5 is always five, and the same sort…
… Mathematics. 463 positive, actual, or real that the subtraction of them causes diminution. For instance, a 5 is always five, and the same sort of a five. The marks + or — placed before it are just like two verbs in the imperative moody giving orders for the addition or subtraction of a positive 5 in either case. And whenever we turn them into adjectives, and talk of a plus five and a minus…
… 464 Old Prices Remains. But had some role assigned it by our Host: And from a pitcher, to be raised by none of us,…
… 464 Old Prices Remains. But had some role assigned it by our Host: And from a pitcher, to be raised by none of us, Hed drink the health of every mother's son of us ! These, and much more, he kept enumerating, Which set those arrant sages calculating; Some by uncommon, some by common sense, And all thought " P to W" immense ! From theory to practice they advanced, Which greatly, to our…
… Leviora. 465 The " one weak point" I promised, is unravelled, And, for the time, poor hoax is fairly gravelled. The Gyp looked blank—the…
… Leviora. 465 The " one weak point" I promised, is unravelled, And, for the time, poor hoax is fairly gravelled. The Gyp looked blank—the fallen Host still blanker, Flat on the landing, where he came to anchor. But then " Convivatoris, uti ducts,"— You know the rest; if not, make no excuses. With one huge wink, he silences the Gyp, Then scarce supports himself upon one hip; And utters, to begin, otie piercing groan,…
… 466 Old Price's Remains. one's character, by a set of inquisitorial interrogations, such as no despotic government ever thought of attemp¬ ting ; which,…
… 466 Old Price's Remains. one's character, by a set of inquisitorial interrogations, such as no despotic government ever thought of attemp¬ ting ; which, if honestly answered, would turn a fellow inside out like a stocking, and expose not only the most minute existing rents and perforations, but, so to speak, the very darnings calculated to make the "youthful hose, well saved" of his character look a little more respectable. A blank form, with…
… Leviora. OLD P. "SEf DOWN" AS ClNCINNATUS, OR, CURLY JACK, ^[ Pray do you read that first class serial, O. P.'s Remains ? …
… Leviora. OLD P. "SEf DOWN" AS ClNCINNATUS, OR, CURLY JACK, ^[ Pray do you read that first class serial, O. P.'s Remains ? f Its immaterial To you, Sir, what I read—but truly, Papa, I think, receives them duly: One glance, for me, was quite enough, I would not touch such precious stuff. " Touch," did I say ? I quite forgot, I screw them up en papillotte. On Prjehumous and Posthumous…
… 468 Old Prices Remains. for done," even in England* ; why not pay a little for sinews, which are, of the two,…
… 468 Old Prices Remains. for done," even in England* ; why not pay a little for sinews, which are, of the two, more easily digested. * At Stuttgard, they make you take a quarter of a pound of bone to each pound of meat, and at the same price! If they go on encroaching in this direction, it will soon be, " De mortuis nil nisi bonutn" in that charitable region, and…
