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Conduct

and therefore upon taking the truth upon trust
willingly confesses he is satisfied of it, or else to avoid
being punished as a head or appearing by his master
or by disrepute among his schoolfellows
is induced to say he is if he is not.
What steps does the master take to inform
himself if the scholar understands his task.
Various according to the disposition and
plan of the several masters. some are
contented with his repeating the Proposition
as it is in Euclid after drawing the figure
others with his writing it down on a slate,
and others even with his not being able
or willing to shew any reason it should not be true.
Considering these things can anyone be
surprised to find that about the consequence
of scholars learning Geometry after such
plans is no other than when they
leave school than a remembrance that
there is a science called Geometry
which treats of lines and magnitudes
parallepipedons & equimultiples, and
they become prejudiced that they can
which of the subject without remembering
the pain with which this attention has



Identifier: | JB/135/046/004
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 135.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

135

Main Headings

Folio number

046

Info in main headings field

conduct

Image

004

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

sir samuel bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown] [pro patria motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

46164

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