The Professor at The Breakfast Table

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Book Overview

I intended to have signalized my first appearance by a certain large statement, which I flatter myself is the nearest approach to a universal formula, of life yet promulgated at this breakfast-table. It would have had a grand effect. For this purpose I fixed my eyes on a certain divinity-student, with the intention of exchanging a few phrases, and then forcing my court-card, namely, The great end of being.-I will thank you for the sugar, -I said.-Man...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517682940
• ISBN13: 9781517682941
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"