two sides of a room does not make the corner in which they meet greater or less. : Let there be two rules, the legs of the one six inches, of the other a foot long. Lay one on the other, joint upon joint, and open them together. There is one and the same opening-one corner, or angle. Remove the one ruler from the other as it is there are two equal angles with sides of different lengths. Take a long stick, and pin another to the middle of it, so that it can move round like the hand of a clock, and first let the moveable stick lie upon the other. Then move it slowly round from left to right. There will be an angle between the two sticks on either side of the moveable stick. As you move the stick, one of these angles increases and the other diminishes. When the two angles are exactly equal, the one stick is said to be perpendicular to the other, and the angles on either side are called right angles. An angle greater than a right angle is called an obtuse angle; an angle less than a right angle is called an acute angle. LESSON 76. FIRST LESSONS IN GEOMETRY.-PART II. Definitions-continued. THE area of a figure is the extent of its surface. A triangle is a figure which has three sides, and therefore three angles. The side upon which a triangle stands is called the base of the triangle. Equilateral means having "equal sides." An equilateral triangle is a triangle whose three sides are all equal. A parallelogram is a four-sided figure, whose opposite sides are parallel. The diagonal of a parallelogram is a line drawn through it from one angle to the angle opposite. A square is a parallelogram, all whose sides are equal, and all the angles right angles. An oblong is a parallelogram whose angles are right angles, but its side are not all equal. A pentagon is a five-sided figure, and a hexagon a six-sided figure; an octagon is an eight-sided figure A circle is a figure contained by a line which is such that any point in it is at the same distance from one point inside the circle. This point is called the centre. The line which bounds the circle is called the circumference, or periphery. Every straight line drawn from the circumference to the centre is called a radius of the circle. A straight line drawn from any point in the circumference, through the centre to meet the circumference again, is called a diameter. A diameter cuts a circle into two halves. Each half is called a semicircle. A part of the circumference is called an arc; a part of the circle cut off by a straight line is a segment of a circle. The circumference is concave to one who stands within it, and convex to one who stands outside of it. A tangent is a straight line which touches a circle. LESSON 77. THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM. That brother should not war with brother, Respecting in each other's case The gifts of nature and of grace. Those Christians best deserve the name, COWPER. LESSON 78. MECHANICAL POWERS.-PART I. THE LEVER. GOD has given to many animals marvellous skill. Birds can with their bills frame nests, which no human art can imitate. Beavers with their teeth and paws can cut down trees, build dams, and construct houses to dwell in. But God has given to man a wisdom, which is more serviceable than the skill of all other animals. With his hand alone he can do much; but by his wisdom he can contrive means of doing infinitely more than one of the most sagacious and most skilful of the brute creation. Man can construct tools and instruments, with which to work; and this is one great difference between man and brute, that man can make tools. The art by which we work with tools or instruments is called mechanical, which means the contriving art. A machine is a contrivance by which any force is Inade serviceable for a particular work; and so any tool might be properly called a machine. But the word machine is generally used of those contrivances |