 | Gift books - 1837 - 246 pages
...invented ! There is not such an expressive verse in the world as the old one: — " ' Multiplication is vexation ; Division is as bad; The Rule of Three doth puzzle me ; And Practice drives me mad.1 " LOUISA SIMONS. 29 Mrs. Simons sometimes reproved her for her vehemence ; sometimes... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...! I hate arithmetic*: I wish the multiplication table had never been invented. ' Multiplication is vexation'; Division is as bad'; • The Rule of Three doth puzzle me, And Fractions make me mad.' " Mrs. Simons sometimes reproved her for her vehemence ; sometimes soothed',... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Mozley - Conduct of life - 1842 - 94 pages
...a louder tone observed to Susan, " I say, Susan, let us sing those pretty lines, Multiplication Is vexation, Division is as bad, The Rule of Three Doth puzzle me, And Practice drives me mad. Or I should rather say, Multiplication Is vexation, Division makes us sigh, The Rule... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...dated 1570, is printed in Davies's ' Key to Hutton's Mathematics," 1840, p. 18.] MULTIPLICATION is vexation, Division is as bad; The Rule of Three doth puzzle me, And Practice drives me mad. xci. [The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations,... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 266 pages
...MS. dated 1570 is printed in Davies's "Key to Hutton's Mathematics," 1840, p. 18.] MULTIPLICATION is vexation, Division is as bad ; The Rule of Three doth puzzle me, And Practice drives me mad. 89. [The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 372 pages
...at school, who have no great aptitude for arithmetic, thus express their feelings on the subject — Multiplication is a vexation, Division is as bad ; The Rule of Three it vexes me, And Fractions put me mad. It is customary for youngsters at school to scribble their names... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Mozley - Children's stories - 1848 - 132 pages
...louder tone observed to Susan, " I say, Susan, let us sing those pretty lines, , Multiplication Is vexation, Division is as bad, The Rule of Three Doth puzzle me, And Practice drives me mad. Or I should rather say, Multiplication i Is vexation, Division makes us sigh, The Rule... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...this subject in the following plaintive and, in my day, very popular strain — "Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad, The rule of three doth puzzle me, And practice makes me mad." But if proper care be taken that every step be thoroughly understood before advancing to the next, multiplication... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1851 - 594 pages
...Protestant Bishop is not without his whip of thongs. Here it is : — " Multiplication Is Veiation, Division Is as bad ; The Rule of Three doth Puzzle me, And Practice drives me mad." COCKER, THE YOUNGER, ventures to analyze the emotions of a Bishop of neglected Education,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1852 - 620 pages
...and directions, if the bewildered scholar turns away in disgust, and mutters — 1 Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad; The rule of three doth puzzle me. And practice drives me mad!' But the last chapter in the table of contents we find is headed 'Notation. 1. Scales... | |
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Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad ; The Rule of Three doth puzzle me, And Practice drives me mad. 
