 The power of dealing with numbers is a kind of "detached lever" arrangement, which may be put into a mighty poor watch. I suppose it is about as common as the power of moving the ears voluntarily, which is a moderately rare endowment.  Ohio Educational Monthly - Page 3161865Full view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857
...ciphering hand-organ has consoled me. I always fancy I can hear thewheels clicking in a calculator's brain. The power of dealing with numbers is a kind of ' detached...arrangement, which may be put into a mighty poor watch. I sup624 Editor's Table. [December, pose it is about as common as the power of moving the ears voluntarily,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 279 pages
...them. Sometimes I have been troubled that I had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of the relations of numbers. " But the triumph of the ciphering hand-organ has consoled me. I always fancy I can hear the -, wheels clicking in a calculator's brain. The power of dealing with... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862
...them. Sometimes I have been troubled that 1 had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of tho relations of numbers. But the triumph of the ciphering hand-organ has consoled me. 1 always fancy I can hear the wheels clicking in a calculator's brain. The power of dealing with numbers... | |
 | 1870
...than any one of them. Sometimes I have been troubled that I had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of the relation of numbers. But the triumph of the ciphering...power of dealing with numbers is a kind of detached level arrangement, which may be put into a mighty poor watch. I suppose it is about as common as the... | |
 | 1870
...Sometimes I have been troubled that I had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of the relation of.numbers. But the triumph of the ciphering hand-organ has consoled...power of dealing with numbers is a kind of detached level arrangement, which may be put into a mighty poor watch. I suppose it is about as common as the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870
...them. Sometimes I have been troubled that I had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of the relations of numbers. But the triumph of the ciphering hand-organ has consoled me. I always fancy I can hear the wheels clicking in a calculator's brain. The power of dealing with numbers... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 640 pages
...them. Sometimes I have been troubled that I had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of the relations of numbers. But the triumph of the ciphering hand-organ has consoled me. I always fancy I ca.n hear the wheels clicking in a calculator's brain. The power of dealing with numbers... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880
...them. Sometimes I have been troubled that I had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of the relations of numbers. But the triumph of the ciphering hand-organ has consoled me. I always fancy I can hear the wheels clicking in a Calculator's brain. The power of dealing with numbers... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 218 pages
...them. Sometimes I have been troubled that I had not a deeper intuitive apprehension of the relations of numbers. But the triumph of the ciphering hand-organ has consoled me. I always fancy I can hear the wheels clicking in a calculator's brain. The power of dealing with numbers... | |
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