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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Haywards Heath, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1906 (The St Martin's Library) hb no d/w, fine paper edition, blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to spine and blind stamped titles to the front cover, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped and worn, top edge gilt, pages tanned with age with some light spotting, spotting to the edges of the pages, a good secure binding, a good reading copy [Box 31]
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Ramblingsid's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001611
- Title
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1906
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Haywards Heath, West Sussex
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