Of the benefits arising from attention to the principle we have many apt illustrations in ordinary life, among which the various groupings of the ten numeral figures into sums of any amount, and the forming of so many thousands of words by a different arrangement of the letters of the alphabet, are familiar examples.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall
Now since many of the volumes contain a number of treatises, the names of these treatises, although they have not always been correctly christened, are written down under each volume, and an Arabic numeral is added to each name shewing on what leaf each tract begins.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark
And so good bye to 666 for the present, and the assumption that the enigma is to be solved by the united numeral forces of the letters of a word.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan