THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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- Hardcover
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Haywards Heath, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Walter Scott Ltd hb no d/w, green boards with gilt titles to spine and decoration to front cover, corners and head and foot of spine bumped and rubbed, a nice tight binding, good reading copy [Box 10]
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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- Ramblingsid's Books (GB)
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- Title
- THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
- Author
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Walter Scott Ltd
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- Tight
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- Gilt
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