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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of wit ; and the diamond gems of humour which<br />
lie in its depths, sparkle with merriment as the<br />
stream of the Author's feelings glitters over it,<br />
rendering the sensations intense, heart-thrilling,<br />
and side-shaking."<br />
Defunct Gazette,<br />
" Comic Arithmetic.—If we wonder that<br />
the human mind could have conceived such a<br />
project, what must be our astonishment to find all<br />
its beatific visions realized,<br />
in such abundant corruscations<br />
of wit and drollery, which irradiate<br />
every page ! It is equal in intellectual splendour<br />
to that mental Claude's, Robert Montflummery's<br />
poem, " The Last of the Gewgaws," and resembles<br />
Vauxhall on a gala night, or the illuminations of<br />
St. Peter at the Zollicogical Gardens." Imaginary<br />
Review.<br />
" Comic Arithmetic is a specific for the<br />
doldrums and a cure for the heart-ache; has been<br />
known to perform a perfect cure on dyspeptic<br />
patients at a single sitting ; it is an anodyne for<br />
the gout, an assuager of rheumatism ; it may be<br />
called an electrical merry-thought, or the galvanism<br />
of witticism ; which, by convulsing with laughter,
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