"Computing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... important truth, that he had been casting about in his mind for some expedient that would answer the purpose. The one which had occurred was, that instead of proportioning the votes of the States in both branches to their respective numbers of inhabitants, computing the slaves in the ratio of five to three, they should he represented in one branch according to the number of free inhabitants only; and in the other, according to the whole number, counting the slaves us free. By this arrangement ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... us from self-trust is our consistency;[182] a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit[183] than our past acts, and we are loth to ...
— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... made was that suggested by Wilbur. He folded his arms and stood silent, waiting, and ready to judge the time as nearly as he could until the five minutes should have elapsed. He was so busy computing the minutes that it was with a start that he noticed some time later that the weeping had ceased. She lay quiet. Her hand was dabbing furtively at her face for a purpose which Pierre could ...
— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick
... is used in household accounts, in measurements, in the division of recipes, and in computing the cost of ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management • Ministry of Education
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