THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
by Oliver Wendell Holmes:
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Walter Scott London undated c1885 VG (no dj, olive green cloth with gilt titles spine and front board,corners rubbed, page tops gilt, ink signature front free endpaper, a very sound tight copy with light speckling endpapers and outside page edges only, internally very clean and tight) 12mo 271pp plus 8pp publisher's adverts. No date of publication but inscribed 1889.
Synopsis
I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula: 2+2=4. Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expression A+B=C. We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.
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- Title
- THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Walter Scott London undated c1885
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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