 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 406 pages
...hand-organ has consoled me. I always fancy I can hear the wheels clicking in a calculator's brain. The powei of dealing with numbers is a kind of " detached lever " arrangement, which may be put into a mighty poot watch. I suppose it is about as common as the power of moving the ears voluntarily, which is a... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 354 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 362 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 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... | |
 | 1892 - 406 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 562 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 ^ain. The power of dealing with numbers... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 374 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1893 - 280 pages
...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 is a kind of " detached...may be put into a mighty poor watch. I suppose it is aboiit as common as the power of moving the ears voluntarily, which is a moderately rare endowment.... | |
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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. 
