The Hindu-Arabic NumeralsGinn, 1911 - 160 pàgines |
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The Hindu-Arabic Numerals, Volum 10 David Eugene Smith,Louis Charles Karpinski Visualització completa - 1911 |
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Pàgina 16 - One, two, three, four, to ten, and then by tens To hundreds, thousands." After him the child Named digits, decads, centuries ; nor paused, The round lakh reached, but softly murmured on " Then comes the koti, nahut, ninnahut, Khamba, viskhamba, abab, attata, To...
Pàgina 96 - East, and in the loveliness of the region in which it lay. Hither, then, as to a sort of ideal land, where all archetypes of the great and the fair were found in substantial being, and all departments of truth explored, and all diversities of intellectual power exhibited, where taste and philosophy were majestically enthroned as in a royal court, where there was no sovereignty but that of mind...
Pàgina 106 - Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles...
Pàgina 16 - Koti-Katha, for the ocean drops ; Ingga, the calculus of circulars ; Sarvanikchepa, by the which you deal With all the sands of Gunga, till we come To Antah-Kalpas, where the unit is The sands of ten crore Gungas. If one seeks More comprehensive scale, th...
Pàgina 97 - ... exhibited, where taste and philosophy were majestically enthroned as in a royal court, where there was no sovereignty but that of mind, and no nobility but that of genius, where professors were rulers, and princes did homage, hither flocked continually from the very corners of the orbis terrarum, the many-tongued generation, just rising, or just risen into manhood, in order to gain wisdom.
Pàgina 96 - ... to the business of life, the youth of the Western World for a long thousand years. Seated on the verge of the continent, the city seemed hardly suited for the duties of a central metropolis of...
Pàgina 102 - ... Iskanderieh, where the climate is good ; and sometimes I say ' No,' because the sea of the West is stormy. Oh, Sa'di ! there is yet only one long journey before me, and, that accomplished, I will sit in my own little corner and give up business." I inquired what journey that was to be. He answered me : " I want to carry sulphur of Persia to China, which in that country, as I hear, bears a high price; and thence to take Chinese ware to Roum ; and from Roum to load up with brocades for Hind ; and...
Pàgina 136 - Children in scole, agenst the usage and manir of all other nations, beeth compelled for to leve hire own langage, and for to construe his lessons and thynges in Frenche, and so they haveth sethe Normans came first into England.