Brain and mind : or, Mental science considered in accordance with the principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology (1895)
Drayton, Henry Shipman, 1840-1923, McNeill, James, 1846-1916 · New York : Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers; London : L.N. Fowler & Co. · leaf 103
mere boys. Mr. Combe 100 BRAIN AND MIND. predicted of the former, however, that he would never excelas an engineer; and in confirmation of this prediction histeacher said of him, after having given him instructions inmathematics for two years, that he did not show as muchcapability in the higher… … able task. I could not now tell you how many eigl.i timesnine are without going to work circuitously, and reckoningby means of the tens. Yet, for seven years I studiedarithmetic. This deficiency has been the occasion ofmuch trouble to me. I could understand everything re-lating to accounts, but had…
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