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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1849 Excerpt: ... CHAP. VII. Letter and Anecdote from the Rev. J. C. F. T.--A few of Ml Compositions.--Texts extracted from his Note Book. Letter from the Rev. J. C. F. T. "Dear Sir, I send, as you request, the particulars of the anecdote of John Lashford, and the question of the fish; but I should have sent it more readily before the Memoir of that interesting youth had made its first appearance, for after reading what you have said, and said most justly, of him, I feel that such trifles as the one alluded to will be little else than a profanation of your pages. Nothing had I known of John Lashford before, when on a visit to the Asylum, after witnessing his proficiency in arithmetic, his peculiarly delightful smile (for peculiar indeed it was) led me to indulge in an act of pleasantry towards him; and I proposed to him a question, with which probably many of your readers are acquainted, with the promise that the solution of it by my next visit should receive the premium of one shilling. (The question is this: --Suppose the head of a fish to be nine inches; the tail as long as head and half the body; the body as long as the head and tail together: what is the length of the fish?) At my next visit, the smile which hailed me was followed by a shake of the head, to signify that he had failed in his attempt. He then went to the board and exhibited, with great rapidity, a process of figures, arriving at the conclusion, which was perfectly correct, and accomplished in the very way that I had intended him to work it, without the assistance of algebra. But still he did not feel that his claim to the shilling was established; and it was with considerable reluctance, on his part, that he could be prevailed on to take it. Why? Because his ingenuity had led him to make a proportionate dr...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235789830
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235789837
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr

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