For instance: a boy commencing the process of calculation, is first told, that, "Arithmetic is the art of computing by numbers," which sentence he partly understands; but should he ask his teacher, "What is a number, in arithmetic?"
At last I was placed in an accountant's office on probation; but arithmetic had never been my forte.
"And we was married two days before my nineteenth birthday," added Mrs. Silk, whose own arithmetic had always been her weak point.
I hope you have a taste for figures?" "Arithmetic and algebra are my favorite studies," said Ben promptly.