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^ e ^ j B ^^ igil ^ J ^ roa ialecfe - ( been first uwentfed < ' by a 9 § l ^ b ^^© djeqcle ^ ia $ rUc MVerona * whe wbr * ah * aliWond ^ heil set upright upon feis scaficffy , andfcjarrimLa . largerhiajttitYg- 'bofrk'j The erudite virtu ^^ o ^/ ArohpigtaU ^' a ^ c ^ i ^ si t heir origin to Boetfeiosy ! for
wfoich treatise he received a ehallenge fron * Professor Duckgun , who insisted that Galileo Jwas the maxii- Ardhp jotfail was shot , of course ; but they were both wrong . They would have be ^ n mueh nearer the m ^ rk— -understand me , I do not directly affirm that / invented them—had they given the merit of the inventiob to Archimedes , who was a near relation of mine , and as excellent a
wheel-and-pin , line-and-weight gentleman , as ever made a motion in the lower house . Who shall gainsay the antiquity of water-clocks ? who trace them down accurately , through all the gradations of metals , movements , capacities , and shapes ^ even to the woodeu Dutch and the pasteboard French ? I pause ior a reply . Where is the head professor of the Glen ? Is he still
pprufig owr the works of Von Meux , and swallowing » 11 he finite / Such is his thirst for knowledge !—no matter . In iFaderlajijd , I have the pleasure to inform you , clocks were firsts , brought ij > tp jjejieral and high-finished utility , or critical accuracy of expjr ^ sion ,. Taking this fact as our datum ,, we might e&sily trace the matter back into the oriental nations , with whom we « laim a
x ^ eamr relationship than is at all supposed , or can be inferred , merely from the undoubted resemblance of the Germ an language \ vi ^ t ] be ^ ncieat Persic * And yet Pancirollus Says , that clocks ax ^ ^ . oieire modern invention ! I wish to triangle , tt * at ? Pancirollus would mind what he says ! Is it because a gentleman named T ^ rQCvhilick , a wheelwright , invented sundry varieties , that we are t 0 . ponsi 4 er the original and the primitive as of modern discovery ? the
p ;^ i ^ h thought ! But enough , my worthy puppets , of these learned opinions and disquisitions ; for know me thus far at least , tha £ fl [ draw nay knowledge from much deeper sources ; from founts Uiat , hiave their origin in elemental essence ; from mines ty ^ jquir . Yejniug through moral nature ' s profound invisibilities ; froi ^ principles as old as Chaos , but clear as the starry quire that lqgjfe ^( dp , wn upon the sublime shadows of its pregnant disorder /
iM ^ V l ? ivot here made a long pause , to give the company time pr , th " g ^ km . Who i < t this Pivot ? ' asked the ambassadors from fo ^ ejgu . courts . ' A very extraordinary sort of man is Mr . Pivot , ' rfllirmuved agreat many voices . Count Kiddlecap Rataiie opened hL ^ , snufK-box . lie closed it , after a while , without extracting a single * pjuch , exclaiming , V What manner of Pivot is thto ? ' The
he ? ad professor , S . Ueaue , had by this time procured a telescope , ^( jicJLi l | e ; aJferuati » ly applied to hi « eye , and . his left ear ; so scf&ntij 6 « wag , his diis }) uiition , atiii sw > anxious was he at alL ti * n 0 < v tx > \\ nd $ y % \ # mXt men of genhit * ? rightly . > , . r Qur Pivoft thus fpfbceetled , commencin g with > i , deep s / gh : — «• ; , , r , ¦ ¦ . * Vid ^^ iw Kp ^^ fti , JBWg ^^ ' : ¦ ¦« ¦< " ' . '' "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/44/
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