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Page 2 - The Greek Testament : with a critically revised Text ; a Digest of Various Readings ; Marginal References to Verbal and Idiomatic Usage ; Prolegomena ;"and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers. By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 3 - An Analysis of the Exposition of the Creed, written by the Right Rev. Father in God, JOHN PEARSON, DD, late Lord Bishop of Chester. Compiled, with some additional matter occasionally interspersed, for the use of the Students of Bishop's College, Calcutta, by WH MILL, DD late Principal of Bishop's College, and Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge.
Page 3 - A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. With 40 facsimiles from Ancient Manuscripts. For the use of Biblical Students. By FH SCRIVENER, MA Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. 15*.
Page 1 - Newton's Principia. First Three Sections, with Appendix, and the Ninth and Eleventh Sections. By the Rev. JH EVANS, MA Fourth Edition. 8vo. 6».
Page 3 - Pearson on the Creed. Carefully printed from an early edition. With Analysis and Index by E. Walford, MA Post 8vo. 5s. An Historical and Explanatory Treatise on the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 154 - Classics, so far as they have been published, will be adopted. These editions have taken their place amongst scholars as valuable contributions to the Classical Literature of this country, and are admitted to be good examples of the judicious and practical nature of English scholarship ; and as the editors have formed their texts from a careful examination of the best editions extant, it is believed that no texts better for general use can be found. The volumes will be well printed at the Cambridge...
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Page 154 - CAREFULLY REPRINTED FROM THE BEST EDITIONS. THIS series is intended to supply for the use of Schools and Students cheap and accurate editions of the Classics, which shall be superior in mechanical execution to the small German editions now current in this country, and more convenient in form. The texts of the " Bibliotheca Classica" and " GrammarSchool Classics," so far as they have been published, will be adopted.
Page 1 - Edition, revised and enlarged by PT MAIN, MA, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 8vo. 16«. Problems and Examples, adapted to the " Elementary Course of Mathematics.
Page 158 - ... Analytical expressions for velocities and accelerations in certain directions. Chapter III. Of the motion of a point affected by a constant acceleration, the direction of which is always the same. Chapter IV. Of the motion of a point affected by an acceleration, the direction of which always passes through a fixed point. Chapter V. Of matter and force. Chapter VI. Of the dynamical laws of force, commonly called the laws of motion. Chapter VII.