Arithmetic in Two Parts: Containing I. A System of the Art, in Memorial Verses, and Dictionary-Wise; II. A Collection of Exercises, Accommodated to the Various Occasions of Business, and Contrivd for - Hardcover

Solomon Lowe

9780265541685: Arithmetic in Two Parts: Containing I. A System of the Art, in Memorial Verses, and Dictionary-Wise; II. A Collection of Exercises, Accommodated to the Various Occasions of Business, and Contrivd for

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Excerpt from Arithmetic in Two Parts<br/><br/>F the reader {hall find the title of this piece wri 1 fied by tbe wort (which it was delignd he lbould) there will be no need of an Jpalogy for adding this fyfiem to the multitudes of arithmetics, that have been already publilht. I have, therefore, only to add, in order to give the reader a more precife idea of what I have aimd-ar, that I Dire?ians, which I have given for the performance of the operations, and the application of the rules; are contrivd to begin with the name of each of them; the better to {tart the train of ideas, that will naturally arife after the found of the leading eafily, above all things, the doaria of numbers flips out of the mind; every body, that is not in confiant pra�tife of it, mull be very fenlible. The belt fecurity again?: this uncertainty feems to be a fet of rules, quite detacht from all example and obfervations thereupon; which are apt to em arrafs the mind, and leave it at a lofs (for want of due di ftin�tior? How much the memory ought to be charg'd with. Have therefore (hereby) provided againfi this inconvenience: and not only given the rules diltin�t, and full enough for fixing the idea of what they are (v. Paragraph 9) but have thrown them into verfe: that they may be the more eafily learnt, the more firmly remind, and the more readily....

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