 | 1866 - 652 pages
...discovery of the difference between even and odd numbers, whose names I was highly delighted to be told. I soon got to do the most difficult sums, always in...head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration, nur had I any names for the different processes I employed. But I believe my sums were chiefly in multiplication,... | |
 | Richard Whately, Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1866 - 546 pages
...discovery of the difference between even and odd numbers, whose names I was highly delighted to be told ; I soon got to do the most difficult sums, always in...head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration, nor had I any names for the different processes I employed. But I believe my sums were chiefly in multiplication,... | |
 | Theology - 1867 - 902 pages
...discovery of the difference between even and odd numbers, whose names I was highly delighted to be told ; I soon got to do the most difficult sums, always in my head, for I know nothing of figures beyond numeration, nor had I any names for the di:t'erent processes I employed.... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...numbers, whose names I was highly delighted to be told ; I soon got to do the most difficult eums, always in my head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration, nor had I any names for the different processes I employed. But I believe my sums were chiefly in multiplication,... | |
 | Psychology - 1892 - 636 pages
...earliest things I can remember is the discovery of the difference between even and odd numbers ; . . . I soon got to do the most difficult sums, always in...head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration, nor had I any names for the different processes I employed. But I believe my sums were chiefly in multiplication,... | |
 | New Thought - 1899 - 406 pages
...peculiar in my calculating faculty. It began to show itself at between five and six years and continued three years. I soon got to do the most difficult sums,...always in my head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond enumeration. I did these sums much quicker than any one could upon paper, and I never remember to have... | |
 | Theosophy - 1913 - 1094 pages
...to the depths of knowledge within. Archbishop Whately, one of the number, speaking of himself, says: "There was certainly something peculiar in my calculating faculty. It began to show itself between five and six and lasted about three years. I soon got to do the most difficult sums, always... | |
 | Bernard Hollander - Brain - 1901 - 586 pages
...certainly was something peculiar in my calculating faculty," wrote Whately. " It began to show itself between five and six, and lasted about three years....head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration, nor had I any for the different processes I employed. But I believe my sums were chiefly in multiplication,... | |
 | Albert B. Olston - Christian Science - 1902 - 440 pages
...but a low degree of objective intelligence. Whately spoke of his own gifts in the following terms : " There was certainly something peculiar in my calculating...do the most difficult sums, always in my head, for 49 I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration. I did these sums much quicker than any one could upon... | |
 | Frank Sargent Hoffman - Hypnotism - 1903 - 338 pages
...eminent persons in this list was Archbishop Whately, who says of his own power in this direction : " It began to show itself at between five and six and...numeration. I did these sums much quicker than any one else could upon paper, and I never remember committing the smallest error. When I went to school, at... | |
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I soon got to do the most difficult sums, always in my head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration, nor had I any names for the different processes I employed. 
