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Updated: May 7, 2025
At once both god and man you ape To expedite your flame; And yet you find in either shape The failure just the same. Jove fell in fair Danae's lap In showers of glittering gold; By Jove! his Joveship was no sap; How could you be so bold, To hope to have a like success, Most sapient ciphering master, And think a lady's lap to bless With show'rs of lath and plaster?
In the evenings after the baby was asleep, Fred sat by his mother with slate and book, deep in the mysteries of reading, writing, and ciphering; and then the mother and son talked over their little plans, and hallowed their nightly rest by prayer; and when, before retiring, his mother knelt with him by his little bed and prayed, the child often sobbed with a strange emotion, for which he could give no reason.
In a country district-school patches were not by any means a sign of poverty, but of the boy's courage and adventurous disposition. Our elders used to threaten to dress us in leather and put sheet-iron seats in our trousers. The boy said that he wore out his trousers on the hard seats in the schoolhouse ciphering hard sums.
'It seems so slow as to be almost hopeless; the only consideration is, that one is doing it all for one's self, and for those as dear as self, he could have added, but refrained. 'About an acre in eight or nine days, according to your expertness, was the reply. Robert did a little ciphering in his mind immediately. The calculation was somewhat reassuring.
He was always reading, scribbling, writing, ciphering, writing poetry, and the like.... In Gentryville, about one mile west of Thomas Lincoln's farm, Lincoln would go and tell his jokes and stories, &c., and was so odd, original and humorous and witty, that all the people in town would gather around him. He would keep them there till midnight.
"I ken what ye're thinking that because I am landward-bred, I wad be bringing ye to disgrace afore folk; but ye maun ken I'm gay gleg at the uptak; there was never ony thing dune wi' hand but I learned gay readily, 'septing reading, writing, and ciphering; but there's no the like o' me at the fit-ba', and I can play wi' the broadsword as weel as Corporal Inglis there.
The president, on learning that Fred had put in four years in Cahoga County Section No. 3 School, and had been head of his class in ciphering, nodded his head gravely and said it would simply be a matter of a pro tanto; that, in fact, he felt sure that Fred might be admitted ad eundem. But the real condition on which they meant to admit him was, of course, not mentioned.
Sukey's words had, for a moment, tickled his vanity, an easy task for a pretty woman with any man, but they had gone no deeper than his vanity, which, in Dic's case, was not very deep. Such an hour as our young friends spent upon the ciphering log would amply compensate for the trouble of living a very long life.
Solomon took out his wallet and removed from it a worn and soiled piece of paper and studied the memoranda it contained. Then he did some ciphering with a piece of lead. In a moment he said: You have got a thousan' an' fifteen pounds an' six shillin' fer to do with as ye please an' no questions asked nary one." "You mean you've got it."
Also, when I have to make an arithmetical calculation, I have to do it step by step with pencil and paper, slowly, reluctantly, and with so little confidence in the result that I dare not act on it without 'proving' the sum by a further calculation involving more ciphering.
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