 An expert accountant, for example, can sum up almost with a single glance of his eye, a long column of figures. He can tell the sum with unerring certainty, while at the same time he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed...  The Journal of Mental Science - Էջ 3831876Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 էջ
...can tell the sum with unerring certainty, while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed ; and...it, he obtains the result by a sort of inspiration. This last supposition would be perfectly analogous to Dr. Hartley's doctrine concerning the nature... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1822 - 312 էջ
...can tell the sum with unerring certainty, while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed : and...it, he obtains the result by a sort of inspiration. 2. It has been found, by actual trial, that it is possible to pronounce about two thousand letters... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 էջ
...certainty, while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sura is composed ; and yet nobody doubts, that each of...supposes, that when the rapidity of the process becomes so greatr that he is unahle to recollect the various steps ol' it, he obtains the result by a sort of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 էջ
...tell the sum, with unerring certainty ; while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed ; and...it, he obtains the result by a sort of inspiration. This last supposition would be perfectly analogous to Dr. Hartley's doctrine concerning the nature... | |
 | David Drummond - 1829 - 230 էջ
...tell the sum with unerring certainty; while, at the same " time, :he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of " .which that sum is composed: and...or supposes, that when the rapidity of the process be"' comes so great that he is unable to recollect the various "'Steps'• of it, he obtains the result... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1835 - 312 էջ
...can tell the sum with unerring certainty, while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed ; and...or supposes that when the rapidity of the process oecomes so great that he is unable to recollect the various steps of it, he obtains the result by a... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1837 - 312 էջ
...can tell the sum with unerring certainty, while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed ; and...it, he obtains the result by a sort of inspiration. 2. It has been found, by actual trial, that it is possible to pronounce about two thousand letters... | |
 | 1859 - 626 էջ
...can tell the sum, with unerring certainty, while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed ; and...or supposes that when the rapidity of the process became so great that he is unable to recollect the various steps of it, he obtains the result by a... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 էջ
...can tell the sum with unerring certainty, while at the same time he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed ; and...it, he obtains the result by a sort of inspiration. This last supposition would be perfectly analogous to Dr. Hartley's doctrine concerning the nature... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 էջ
...can tell the sum with unerring certainty, while at the same time he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed ; and...it, he obtains the result by a sort of inspiration. This last supposition would be perfectly analogous to Dr. Hartley's doctrine concerning the nature... | |
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