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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162 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
physic of its fees, and law of its charges ; and both<br />
these professions will for henceforth be conducted<br />
*'<br />
free gratis" and " for nothing.""<br />
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,—<br />
Through the practice of the most rigid economy in<br />
every branch of my establishment, I have directed<br />
to be laid before you an account of the sums paid<br />
into the Exchequer, being the surplus ofmy revenue;<br />
and I have further to inform you that taxation<br />
being no longer necessary, the expense of a house<br />
of commons may be dispensed with, and the large<br />
sums usually paid in "bribery at elections," I<br />
trust will be left to fructify in the pockets of the<br />
members.<br />
This constitutional determination on my part,<br />
for the benefit of my people, has arisen from my<br />
being called, by Divine Providence, to a sense of<br />
my true estate of a State pauper, which has led<br />
me to reduce my dietary and that of my household<br />
to that of the Poor-Law Unions, and to<br />
introduce teatotality into every department ;<br />
and I<br />
have great gratification in being able to announce,<br />
that as I have now lost "having a shadow " to my<br />
royal personality, I may myself be shortly expected
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