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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FRACTIONS. 69<br />
Third, is the wishing cap of Fortunatus,<br />
Worn by all young ladies in their teens,<br />
That when they're married they may have the reins.<br />
Fourth^ is the night cap of the Cock-lane ghost,<br />
When he fright'ned<br />
The enlight'ned<br />
Chartist host.<br />
Fifths is a stone out of the wall,<br />
Of Pyramus and Thisbe,<br />
And a charmed echo of Nick Bottom's roar,<br />
Or louder snore<br />
Of Mr. Muntz, when he thinks Lord John a bore.<br />
Hixthi one of the seven- leagued boots, in which is<br />
Made the interminable of Cobden's speeches,<br />
Loose as the old coal-heaver Huntington's<br />
Heaven-born breeches.<br />
SeTenth, the bottle of the bottle-conjurer,<br />
Into which Lord Mounteagle, to please himself.<br />
Can squeeze himself,<br />
When in some plan of plunder or of pelf<br />
He wants to ease himself<br />
Eighthi is the toe nail of the Dragon of Wantley,<br />
Which Berkeley Grantley<br />
Used as a sort of scarifying razor<br />
Upon a Fraser.
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