THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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- Hardcover
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- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Phillips, Samson. Boston. Second Printing., 1858 Book size about 5 by 7 inches with some 373 pages including an extensive Index. Bound in blind stamped brown cloth with spine gilt lettering. Eight full page tissue guarded illustrations. Probably a second printing with advertisement end papers that do not correspond to the first printing. A major American book on many critics top one hundred list. Moderate wear--hinges undamaged. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 2nd Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- the book scot (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12805
- Title
- THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition.
- Publisher
- Phillips, Samson. Boston. Second Printing.
- Date Published
- 1858
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- Literature;
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