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what we ( # & < < teavea * " , N © F , ivhea a tpqth esca §* 9 § fry the revolution pf t ^ e , w . hfi ^ i it bejanga , to , ajid the next tooth pop * iaifc the socket-r-rone whe # l thus moving another ^ -we gay the clQc k ' * gottS * and \^ hen this does not happen , the clock " stops . " Ifnorepiaring or winding will cause it to go again , then the thing is what you call te dead . " I shall not delay the time by delivering a treatise on the pendulum ; though it is a noble subject : nor on the great and little wheels , —not even the balance-wheel ; nor on the springs—not even the hair-spring—difficult as it is to repair . The energies , movements , vibrations , and vibratiuncles , ( or godpapas , ) you must of necessity take for granted , or what business have you here ? You think , therefore you must be something You feel , you walk , talk , eat ; in short you possess five senses , and you use them , for better or for worse ; therefore you are , * Now then I am coming to the point . '
Here the whole assembly set up a great shout , * jMr . Ryot is coming to the point . ' ' Old Pivot is coming to thenoint ! ' The mechanist cast an inspired look upwards , and thuaTproceeded . c Oh Nyinpharum domos ! oh sedes Musarum ! oh loca litera . tis apta secessibus!—ea mehercle ( ut paulo ante dixi ) lugere
nunc videntur et operam cult unique Christianorum requirere . Sed multo magis ipsa Constantinopolis—vel tota potius Grecia : quae quondam florentissima , nunc indigna premitur servitute ! f A little ornamental rhetoric is » ot more requisite to the popular success of a speech , Jjaan" a warm corner , a clean face , and a little oil , are to the proper goings on of every clock in nature . I will not permit you to deceive yourselves ; and c ! o not attempt to deceive me , for I will not have it !'
A murmur passed through all the assembled nobility at these words . ' A deuced odd sort of person is this Mr . Pivot 1 * muttered some of them : 4 Here ' prett y fellow for a clock-mender ! - exclaimed others : ' Oh ! that precious Pivot T murnaqred Lord Snakeskin : * This is no court mechanist ! ' ejaculated the ambassadors , indignantly . l Long live old Pivot ! ' shouted thousands of voices from the outskirts of the great hall .
I do belong to a court / pursued Mr . Pivot ; I am a respectable man , in the real , moral sense of the word , and a Commissioner . I say that clocks are made to go in oil , and not to stand still in rust . I say that they are very curious and intelligent machines , and that their makers are not properly respected if their wants are neglected , and their bodies treated like dirt , so that they
lose , in consequence , all their prime faculties . I say , and I speak us a mechanist , that if they are not wound up at proper interval * , which is their feeding-time , and kept warm and dry , by Wing set iu proper places , they either will not goat all , or worse—go wrong ! \ Vho shall gainsay these simple facts ? No one ? Then 110110 have I offended . I would demand a reply from the head profttsor of * Dos Cartes , Me ^ pk . Meditat . f Vid * Butbequius , Trav .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/47/
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