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gested an inquiry of rather a discouraging nature ; " what will become of the numerous , artizans now employed in the various branches of clock atod
watchwork ¥ ' I Was , however , soon pacified by recollecting the consolatory advice , given by our late heaven-born minister on a similar
occasion , " \ % t them go into the army or navy * there they will find both subsistence and employment . ^ Notwithstanding tbe high degree of merit , which I willingly
ascribe to these gentlemen , I can . not suppress some doubts on tfee circumstance of originality : L W . with great candour seeras inclined to admit , that the ancients were acquainted with the mode of measuring time , which he
describes , and with an amiable modesty , only claims the honour of reviving the knowledge ^ which had long lain dormant . I also remember that , many years since some young females of my acquaintance employed an apparatus somewhat similar to that describe
« d by It W . but for different purposes . These for time-hunting gypsies , eager to explore tfat book of fate , suspended a ring , ( a wed . ding ring you may be assured ) by a thread , in an empty wine-glass ; there , held by the iinger and
thumb , it answered , by the number of percussions , the curious questions which start spontaneously in the minds of the young and inquisitive , as , in how many years they should be married ? how many children they should have ? &c . fee . In answer to the
second inquiry , I recollect that in one experiment , the ring struck £ ve times : the fair operator how * , ver lived to have nine children , % mtf and I mention it for th < t
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honour of the ring , oply fiV ^ fQ & vived tier I This ftt £ cfdfcs not , to be sure , exactl y coincide with the perfect accuracy atributed to the buttbtl by your corr ^ spoiitSh
ents but it is probable that th « pulsations of the&e giggling gfrh might be as giddy as themselves , and therefore m > t eomparttbie t <> the steady virile pulse of I . W . or Mr . Nightingale .
It wo aW add much | p the gra * tification already affi > rded ^ if those acute expermtentetlisfs viitl favour us with clear solutions of some queries suggested' by the subject ,-as—whether age or sex in any cases render the result dubiotis ,- ^ -
whether the female pulse , for in * stance , be exactly syn ^ hr ^ nom with that of tibe mitte ^ it heiiig vulgarly apprehended that soiiife organs in the fair $ ex move wHfe the
gr ^ ate ^ volubility than coti respondeiit ones in our more rigid systems ; - ^ -whether dancing , running tip and down stairs , or sitting stock-still , be most favourable to
the success of the experiment ; ~ whether travelling east or vr&t will affect the rate of arterial movement , or whether we must deduct from or add to the number
of pulsations , agreeably to the vulgar standard the meridian sun , whenever we change our sitiiA * tions ;—and whether it be possiblt that mind can have any influence upon this matter ?
Ardently desirous thttt everf atom of scepticism inay be re * nrcoved , and that the subject m * J be placed beyond all possibility of doubt , I wait with impatience for the result of farther observation ; till thea I must i
fear remain as I am , Sir , our s &c , AM IlTCORKiaiBLK WKBBWmVlIt
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lD 4 On tfotaie Discovery with regard to the Human PuUe .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/40/
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