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human calculations. The propositions seem plausible, and the reasoning fair, while
stern truth lies behind all to level the pride of understanding, and prove the fallacy of
the wisdom of men. The reader may wish to see how closely Eudosia‘s account of
profit and loss came to the fact, and I shall, consequently, make up a statement from
the private books of the firm that had the honor of once owning me, viz.:….‖
(Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, Ch. XI, 102/192, Jan.-
April 1843, serialized in Graham’s)
10) ―…let me see,‖ calculated Tom, as he went whistling down Broadway, ―that ‗yes‘
may be made to yield at least a cool $100,000.‖
(Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, Ch. XV, 159/192, Jan.-
April 1843, serialized in Graham’s)
11) ―A very simple calculation will demonstrate what I mean. but possibly, you do
not wish to hear the calculation—ladies, generally, dislike figures?‖
(Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, Ch. XVII, 177/192,
Jan.-April 1843, serialized in Graham’s)
12) ―Have you other property, sir, that affords the same wonderful history of a rapid
advance in value?‖ asked the baronet.
―These walls are covered with maps of estates in the same predicament. Some
have risen two or three thousand per cent within five years, and some only a few
hundred. There is no calculating in the matter, for it is all fancy.‖
(Home as Found, Ch.VII, p. 137/591, 1838)
13) ―The grounds were broken, and John Effingham had turned the irregularities to
good account, by planting and leading paths among them, to the great amusement of
the lookers-on, however, who, like true disciples of the Manhattanese economy, had
already begun to calculate the cost of what they termed grading the lawns, it being
with them as much a matter of course to bring the pleasure grounds down to a
mathematical surface,as to bring a rail-road route down to the proper level.‖
(Home as Found, Ch.XXII, p. 420/591, 1838)
14) ―Where the profits are to come from, exceeds Pennsylvany calculations; perhaps
a Yankee can tell.‖ (Oak Openings, Ch. IV, p. 81/582, Aug. 1848)
15) ―Yes, I dare say he has calculated the tithes already a dozen times.‖
(Precaution, Ch. VII, p. 84/532, Nov. 1820)
16) ―Why, about a thousand pounds, I think, will do it, with what we have,‖ said
Jarvis, affecting to calculate. (Precaution, Ch. XXXVI, p. 377/532, Nov. 1820)
17) ―The trust was to endure until 1810, when, if no person appeared, or could be
found, after sufficient notice, to claim the moiety so devised, then a certain sum,
calculating the principal and interest of his debt to Colonel Effingham, was to be
paid to the heirs-in-law of the Effingham family, and the bulk of his estate was to be
conveyed in fee to his daughter, or her heirs.‖
(The Pioneers, Ch. XL, p. 585/604, Feb. 1823)
18) ―This jacket might sell for a dollar,‖ had the Widow White calculated, ―but for
the hole in the elbow; and, that well patched, would bring seventy-five cents.‖
(The Sea Lions, Ch. V, p. 80/532―April 1849)
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