Excerpt from The Rational Arithmetic: In Which the Science Is Fully Developed, the Art Clearly Explained, and Both Combined in Numerous Illustrations; Adapted to Learners of Every Capacity, the Whole Enforced by a Great Variety of Interesting and Practical Problems It ts expected, however, that the third class will most truly appre ciatethiswork. The include aboutonethird, andconsistofthose unfortunate scholarsw ose minds act too slowly for the patience of teachers, and are too obtuse to derive much advantage from the text books so ill-adapted to their wants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.