TO BRING DECIMALS TO THEIR PROPER VALUE IN WHOLE NUMBERS.
The proper value of a decimal is only to be ascertained by his points of character, and they are to be found of full value in many parts of the kingdom, in the shape of worthy curates, and honest rectors and vicars, dividing not their flocks, or the produce of their flocks, but their own time, means, and money, in the conscientious discharge of their clerical duties.
RULE XII.
PRACTICE.
The Rule of Practice is indispensable in all our operations. It is in some degree the "ultimatum" of the preceding rules, for as the proverb says, "Practice makes perfect."
Nature is said to have begun the creation of "living infinities" by this rule, for in the words of the poet,
"She tried her 'prentice hand on man,
And then she made the lasses o."—Burns.
Practice is thus divided into two kinds—the first called Practice Preliminary; the second is denominated Practice in General.