 Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind...  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With a Memoir - Page 79by Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1907 - 314 pages
...crude intellect of the sailor, absolutely insoluble without the key." " And you really solved it ? " " Readily ; I have solved others of an abstruseness...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import. " In the present case — indeed in all cases of secret writing — the first... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1907 - 322 pages
...crude intellect of the sailor absolutely insoluble without the key." " And you really solved it ? " " Readily ; I have solved others of an abstruseness...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import. " In the present case — indeed in all cases of secret writing — the question... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1909 - 376 pages
...crude intellect of the sailor, absolutely insoluble without the key.” “And you really solved it?” “Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import. “In the present case-indeed in all cases of secret writing—the first question... | |
 | William Patten - 1910 - 438 pages
...crude intellect of the sailor, absolutely insoluble without the key." " And you really solved it ? " " Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import. " In the present case — indeed, in all cases of secret writing — the first... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1911 - 408 pages
...crude intellect of the sailor, absolutely insoluble without the key." " And you really solved it ? " " Readily ; I have solved others of an abstruseness...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import."In the present case — indeed in all cases of secret writing — the first... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 pages
...supplied by a dispatch written in cipher. Edgar A. Poe has justly said, in his story of The Gold Bug, that "it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can...ingenuity may not, by proper application. resolve." Cipriani, Jean Baptiste. (1727-85.) A famous Florentine artist, who came to England in 1755, and cooperated... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 pages
...supplied by a dispatch written in cipher. Edgar A. Poe has justly said, in his story of The Gold Bug, that "it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the land, which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve." Cipriani, Jean Baptlste. (1727-85.)... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1913 - 430 pages
...crude intellect of the sailor, absolutely insoluble without the key." " And you really solved it ? " " Readily ; I have solved others of an abstruseness...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import. " In the present case, — indeed in all cases of secret writing, — the... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1913 - 328 pages
...the key." "And you really solved it?" "Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness tenthousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import. "In the present case — indeed in all cases of secret writing — the first... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby - 1913 - 294 pages
...without the key." " And you really solved it ? " " Readily ; I have solved others of an abstruseness 10 ten thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain...not, by proper application, resolve. In fact, having 15 once established connected and legible characters, I scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty... | |
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