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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118 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
the law. In this case, however, the pleasure<br />
increases with the entanglement, as the fly<br />
said in the honey-pot. The arms of a fair lady<br />
are the softest bonds ; the poison of a maiden's<br />
lip the sweetest poison. To be in love is to<br />
be entangled in a cobweb of ten thousand<br />
ecstasies, where every string is bliss, and every<br />
mesh is beauty. In this web, Cupid sits as an<br />
angel in one corner, and Hymen on the other ;<br />
thus<br />
bound with sighs, tied with kisses, linked by<br />
embraces, chained by tears, lovers disport themselves<br />
;<br />
till Hymen, in fear that they should die of<br />
ecstasy, tightens the web, and binds them hand and<br />
foot in the true lover's knot of matrimony.<br />
KuLE 1.<br />
PARLIAMENTARY EVOLUTION.<br />
Make up your mind to " go the whole<br />
hog" with your party.<br />
2. Flatter, gammon, and gloze all parties.<br />
3. Humbug your opponents, and cheat<br />
your supporters.<br />
4. Make love to every prevailing vagary<br />
of the day, and coquet with Mother<br />
Church, and her fantastical daughter.<br />
Miss Dissent.
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