Guide to the civil service examinations [by H. White].1856 |
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15 Find 1st Examination acres Admiralty annum Arithmetic including Vulgar Bought Britain British Calculate the duty candidate cent Civil Service coal Colonies Commissioners compound interest Correspondence cost countries crown Decimal Fractions Describe double entry dwts England English Composition English History Explain feet Find the amount Find the interest Find the value France French Geography George Give some account Glossop Glossop union gross guardians guinea house of Stuart inches income tax Joseph Gillott King Latin ledger letter Lords Lowest salary lowest terms miles obtain OFFICE Paid paper Patronage vested Poor Law Board port wine pound pound sterling Précis reams Recd Reduce reign respectively Rule of Three simple interest Smith Sold for cash square yards subjects Swinton tare tons towns troy Troy weight value in money Vulgar and Decimal Vulgar Fractions weight workhouse worth Writing from Dictation
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Page 57 - To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square on the other part.
Page 58 - After half a century, during which England had been of scarcely more weight in European politics than Venice or Saxony, she at once became the most formidable power in the world, dictated terms of peace to the United Provinces, avenged the common injuries of Christendom on the pirates of Barbary, vanquished the Spaniards by land and sea, seized one of the finest West India islands, and acquired on the Flemish coast a fortress which consoled the national pride for the loss of Calais.
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