 | John McGilchrist - 1860 - 404 oldal
...There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - 332 oldal
...There was indeed a resource ; but the utmost caution and secresy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 oldal
...There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secresy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problcms on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 oldal
...sceptre. There was indeed a resource, but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying it I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl : for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 oldal
...There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | William Edward Winks - 1883 - 454 oldal
...There was, indeed, a resource, but the utmost caution and secrosy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl; for the rest my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | Paul Keen - 2004 - 380 oldal
...sceptre. There was indeed a resource; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl: for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it, to a great... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1866 - 786 oldal
...There was, indeed, a resource ; bat the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in ap. plying to it tq o o 5 q problem* on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and... | |
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... earth, nor a friend to give me one: pen, ink, and paper, therefore, (in despite of the flippant remark of Lord Orford,') were, for the most part, as completely out of my reach, as a crown and sceptre. There was indeed a resource; but the utmost caution... 
