And the roseus on your cheek, And your Algebraand Greek, Are parfait!
And the rose-flush on your cheek, And your Algebra and Greek Perfect are; And that loving lustrous eye Recognises in the sky Every star.
Although no one ever asked my hand in holy matrimony except a callow youth whom I tutored in algebra last summer.
When Anne Pierson and I were freshmen in Oakdale High School we recited algebra to a teacher named Miss Leece, who behaved toward Anne in precisely the same way that Miss Wharton has behaved toward me, simply because she disliked her.
I made my way easily without help through Walkinghame, part of Bonnycastle, and got a little way into algebra before I left school.
When algebra has been learnt, all goes smoothly until we reach those studies in which the notion of infinity is employed--the infinitesimal calculus and the whole of higher mathematics.
All types of series are capable of formal definition, and their properties can be deduced from the principles of symbolic logic by means of the Algebra of Relatives.
The fact is, that in algebra the mind is first taught to consider general truths, truths which are not asserted to hold only of this or that particular thing, but of any one of a whole group of things.
For instance, the whole of Arithmetic and Algebra has been shown to require three indefinable notions and five indemonstrable propositions.
But how little, as a rule, is the teacher of algebra able to explain the chasm which divides it from arithmetic, and how little is the learner assisted in his groping efforts at comprehension!
The power to solve a problem in algebra or geometry is the result, in part, of the previous training in those subjects.
But was the ability to understand algebra and geometry given by the actual study of the same, given step by step?
They have invented neitheralgebra nor the telescope, nor achromatic glasses nor the fire engine, nor hose-machines, etc.
Finally she was able to secure a copy of a work onalgebra and a Euclid.
It was said of her that "she read Virgil, Pope and algebra as others read novels," and that she was able "to multiply nine figures by nine others in her head.
Do you want Society to say that you have embraced the profession of a Religious, and intend henceforth to employ your talents in teaching sniffy-nosed schoolgirls Greek and Algebra and Mathematics, because this Mildare has jilted you?
Father says, either I acquirealgebra or I go to Miss Prothero's establishment.
Soon she jumps up courageously, brushes away her distress, gets an algebra book from the desk and sits down to study it.
What is algebra exactly; is it those three cornered things?
Presently SUSAN takes up the algebrabook and reads.
The algebra of life is too much for the brain which is accustomed to deal only with definite values.
It is equally true in subjects where reasoning is essential, like algebra or syntax.
In arithmetic or algebra he has had definite tasks, and success has been in direct proportion to the diligence with which he has followed a course definitely marked out.
The teacher who is able by sheer force of determination to manage the stupidities of a dull algebra class, may fail signally in the attempt to make the same force carry him through an unappreciated exercise in "Macbeth.
As an illustration of the sense in which literature is a sort of algebra of human feeling somewhat more remote from the ordinary life of a child may be taken another poem of Browning's, "The Lost Leader.
They were the examination slips for the next algebra test.
But, a little while afterward I was talking with some of the fellows in the gymnasium, and they said it probably held the examination slips for the algebra test.
In the present condition of affairs, this mysterious note could refer only to one thing--the missing slips of the algebra test.
We do not propose that he shall decipher the hieroglyphics of algebra and geometry.
She was devoted to algebra and geometry, which, she said, "are the only provinces of thought wherein peace reigns.
The study of algebra should be compulsory in high school.
The study ofalgebra (or some other subject) in the high school should be elective.
Jack, she will hate you if you keep reminding her of her algebra and French.
It was once my duty to act as private tutor in algebra and geometry to a young man preparing for college.
Students have been made to study history or algebra by offering prizes to the diligent and by threatening the slothful with punishment.
Then he got out note-book and algebra and lost himself in quadratic equations, while the hours slipped by, and the stars dimmed, and the gray of dawn flooded against his window.
Physics and chemistry--you can't do them without laboratory study; and you'll find algebra and geometry almost hopeless with instruction.
And hardest of all was it to shut up the algebra or physics, put note-book and pencil aside, and close his tired eyes in sleep.
But this night, after algebra and physics, and an attempt at a sonnet, he got into bed and opened "First Principles.
One day, because the days were so short, he decided to give up algebra and geometry.
I expect Bessy was tired long ago of the algebrayou were talking so much about.
It was by them that algebra was introduced to the Western peoples, and the Arabic numerals were similarly introduced.
As opposed to algebra it is the practical part of the science.
A very small proportion of the students have made any progress in algebra or mathematics, few are even fair arithmeticians, and much that they are called upon to learn of geography, history, and astronomy is soon forgotten.
The father observes that another boy has learned algebra and geometry in the same time.
Ministers work out the machinery of responsibility in an abstract kind of way; they have a sort of algebra of human nature, in which friction and strength (or weakness) of material are left out.
The difference between Emerson's poetry and that of the contemporaries with whom he would naturally be compared is that of algebra and arithmetic.
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