The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Original green cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt (BAL binding A). Spine sunned and edge-worn
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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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
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 261674
- Title
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- With 8 plates by Hoppin. 373 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original green cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt (BAL binding A). Spine sunned and edge-worn
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing with period after "Company" in the
- Publisher
- Phillips, Sampson and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1858
- Keywords
- American | Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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