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A HISTORY OF THE OPERA 



IN 



ITALY, FRANCE, ENGLAND, GERMANY, and RUSSIA, 



FK0M ITS ORIGIN IN HAM DOWN TO OUR OWN TIMES. 

 By SUTHERLAND EDWARDS, Esq. 

 * * Abounds with Anecdotes of distinguished Political Personages, as well 



as of the great Musical Composers and Singers. 



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A COURSE OF MATHEMATICS, 



PURE AND MIXED, 



More especialDy designed for the use of Candidates for the 



MIMTARY AND CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS; 



WITH A. VARIETY OF PROBLEMS IN, AKB PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OP, 

 THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS : 



1. ALGEBRA, TRIGONOMETRY, and MENSURATION. 



2. ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY (CONIC SECTIONS), STATICS, DYNA- 



MICS, and HYDROSTATICS. 



3. THE DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS, with their appli- 



cations to the Higher Geometry, Mechanics, &c. &c. 



By J. R. YOUNG, 



LATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, BELFAST COLLEGE. 



The object of this work is to furnish 

 Candidates for the Military and Civil Service 

 Examinations with such apracticalknowledge 

 of Pure and Mixed Mathematics, a3 may 

 prove most serviceable to them in the course 

 of the ordeal to which they are about to be 

 subjected. On such occasions a mere theo- 

 retical acquaintance with principles is by no 

 means sufficient. It is also necessary that 

 the young aspirant should hnve been trained 

 by actual experiments, as it were, to the 

 application of the abstract rules, the enun- 

 ciation of which he has, otherwise, mastered 

 only by an effort of memory. To assist him 

 in thus gathering the fruits of his intellec- 

 tual industry, Mr. J. It. Young has devised 

 a multitude of problems, of greater or less 

 difficulty, in Algebra, Trigonometry, Men- 

 suration, Analytical Geometry (Conic 



Sections), Statics, ^Dynamics, Hydrostatics^ 

 the Differential and Integral Calculus, with 

 their applications to the Higher Geometry, 

 Mechanics, &c. The chief peculiarity of this 

 work, however,is one that will recommend it 

 to a very large class of students. The most 

 difficult questions are rendered comparatively 

 easy, by the practical simplifications that are 

 introduced in their mode of solution. 

 Instead of a pompous and puzzling display of 

 technical phraseology, the utmost care has 

 been taken to explain the most knotty 



Eoints in a plain, unaffected manner, intel- 

 gible to every ordinary capacity. In this 

 respect, Mr. Young's "Course of Mathe- 

 mntics" will be found to posses a decided 

 superiority over all preceding works on the 

 same subject. 



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