 | William Chambers - 1873 - Počet stránok 326
...by a young woman who had found it in a lodging-house. I considered it as a treasure ; but it was a treasure locked up ; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equations, and I knew nothing of the matter. My master's son had purchased Fenning's Introduction;... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1892 - Počet stránok 312
...him by a young woman who had found it in a lodging-house. He considered it a treasure, but it was a treasure locked up, for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equations, of which he knew nothing. His master's son, however, had purchased Fenning's Introduction,... | |
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I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodging-house. I considered it as a treasure; but it was a treasure locked up ; for it supposed the reader to be well... 
