ANSWER TO MATHEMATICAL QUESTION. SEE PAGE 236. SIR, IF you think proper to insert the following answer to the mathematical question, p. 236. at some future opportunity I shall write on a subject of as much greater importance as heavenly things are above earthly. LIVERPOOL. Yours, &c. I find four times the sum of any two figures composing a number the first of which is to the last as 1 is to 2, is always equal to that number ; and if three times the sum of the two figures (which is equal to three fourths of that number) be added to the number, the figures will then be inverted. The number required by the question is 24, which may thus be found 18 3: 6 the sum of the figures required 6 X 4 = 24 the number required 24+18=42 the figures inverted. Or by common arithmetic it may be done thus→→→ 3) 18 (6 24 18 42 By the same rule 12 must have 9 added to it 36 must have 27 And 48 must have 36 These are the only four numbers containing two figures that can be so served. No, while his lightnings flash around, Although the earth's foundation move, Nothing shall fright my soul from God, My rock, my refuge, and my friend. LIBERALITY ENCOURAGED. S. H. *The liberal soul shall be mede fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." Prov, xi, 25. AN EJACULATION. LET praise employ my heart and tongue: While life and breath remain : VERSES ON MARRIAGE. SIR, THE HE following lines, which are copied verbatim from the original, were composed by an illiterate man, at Ponder's End, but one who (I believe)" Fears God, and loves all mankind." In reading these lines, 1 was particularly pleased, with that beautiful sentiment of "dependance on God," which runs through the whole. If, Sir, you think them worth a place in your Miscellany, they are at your service. W. BICKNELL, Junr. I. LORD, be present at our wedding, Fill our hearts with heavenly grace, Bless us in our undertaking, May it be to shew thy praise. II. Bless us in our new connection, May it be approv'd of thee; Grant us thy divine protection, III. As our hands are join'd together, May our hearts be join'd in one; IV. Help us, Lord, in ev'ry station, To rely upon thy word; May we know that free salvation, Comes through Jesus Christ the Lord. IN the gay hours of reason's early dawn, Till far from these perennial sweets I stray'd, And join'd th' ambitious crowd, where vice, array'd So the sweet stream unsullied flows along, That breathes its fragrance round its sedgy shore, It joins the roaring deep, where dashing waters foam. E. G. |