COMIC ARITHMETIC
Arithmetic is the art or science of computing bj numbers. It is national, political, military, and commercial. It is of the highest importance to the community ; because it pre-eminently teaches us to take care of Number I. Our ministers succeed according to their knowledge of the science of numbers. Witness the skilful management of majorities of the lower house. He who understands the true art of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication^ and Division, as here laid down, will not be considered a mere cipher in tlie world; but will, in all probability, make a considerable /^wre ; and in the figurative words of Horace, be "Dives agris dives positis in foenore nummis." Let us, therefore, under the guidance and protection of that god of honest men, the light-heeled and light-fingered Mercury, be diligent so to add to our store by subtracting from the stores of others, that we may add to our importance. Let us so multiply our resources, by encouraging dimsion among our contemporaries, that we may see their reduction in the perfection of our own practice.
Arithmetic is the art or science of computing
bj numbers. It is national, political, military,
and commercial. It is of the highest importance
to the community ; because it pre-eminently
teaches us to take care of Number I. Our ministers
succeed according to their knowledge of the
science of numbers. Witness the skilful management
of majorities of the lower house.
He who understands the true art of Addition,
Subtraction, Multiplication^ and Division, as here
laid down, will not be considered a mere cipher in
tlie world; but will, in all probability, make a
considerable /^wre ; and in the figurative words of
Horace, be "Dives agris dives positis in foenore
nummis."
Let us, therefore, under the guidance and protection
of that god of honest men, the light-heeled
and light-fingered Mercury, be diligent so to add
to our store by subtracting from the stores of
others, that we may add to our importance. Let
us so multiply our resources, by encouraging dimsion
among our contemporaries, that we may see
their reduction in the perfection of our own practice.
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DIVISION. 43<br />
placed in the state of longing—hence the name of<br />
the rule, which is a figurative exemplification of<br />
*'<br />
hope deferred."<br />
Rule I—Teaches to work an expected legacy or<br />
an estate in reversion, or a right of entail, with a<br />
" post-obit bond," cent, per cent, on a stiff stamen.<br />
Rule II—Teaches how to wait for a living<br />
instead of working for one. This is a hungryexpectancy:<br />
yourself, in a consumption, with an<br />
interesting cough, preaching as curate to an admiring<br />
congregation principally composed of females,<br />
who bring jellies and jams, pitch-plasters, electuaries,<br />
and piUs, "bosom friends," and other comforters,<br />
while the jolly incumbent, with his rosy<br />
gills and round paunch, writes you once a quarter<br />
to dine with him, to see how well he holds it.<br />
Rule III.<br />
Chancery Long Division.—This is an<br />
exemplification of the " law's delay," and the rule<br />
is to be worked by giving the expectants the<br />
" benefit of a doubt," which is not quite so pleasant<br />
in Chancery as in criminal practice. The "Bidder"<br />
of this rule was John Lord Eldon.
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