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... CLOCKS AND WATCHES . 29 EARLY RISING 41 ART OF EMPLOYING TIME 52 12 TIME AND ETERNITY 64 LIFE A RIVER · THE SPRING - TIME OF LIFE THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF LIFE PASSING GENERATIONS . 68 AVERAGE DURATION OF LIFE 71 PASTIMES OF CHILDHOOD ...
... CLOCKS AND WATCHES . 29 EARLY RISING 41 ART OF EMPLOYING TIME 52 12 TIME AND ETERNITY 64 LIFE A RIVER · THE SPRING - TIME OF LIFE THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF LIFE PASSING GENERATIONS . 68 AVERAGE DURATION OF LIFE 71 PASTIMES OF CHILDHOOD ...
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... clock when it is twelve at London . Time , like bodies , is divisible nearly ad infinitum . A second ( a mere pulsation ) is divided into four or five parts , marked by the vibrations of a watch - balance ; and each of these divisions ...
... clock when it is twelve at London . Time , like bodies , is divisible nearly ad infinitum . A second ( a mere pulsation ) is divided into four or five parts , marked by the vibrations of a watch - balance ; and each of these divisions ...
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... clock , whose movements are derived from the vicinity of a loadstone ; and it is so adjusted as to discover the distance of countries , at sea , by the longitude . ” The analogy between this clock and the electrical clock of the present ...
... clock , whose movements are derived from the vicinity of a loadstone ; and it is so adjusted as to discover the distance of countries , at sea , by the longitude . ” The analogy between this clock and the electrical clock of the present ...
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... clock and Hook's magnetic watches were always exhibited as great curiosities . * PERIODS OF REST . The terrestrial day , and consequently the length of the cycle of light and darkness , being what it is , we find various parts of the ...
... clock and Hook's magnetic watches were always exhibited as great curiosities . * PERIODS OF REST . The terrestrial day , and consequently the length of the cycle of light and darkness , being what it is , we find various parts of the ...
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... clocks not very common , the dial was an actual time - keeper . Of the mathematical works of the seven- teenth century which are found on book stalls , none are so common as those on Dialling . Each of the old dials usually had its ...
... clocks not very common , the dial was an actual time - keeper . Of the mathematical works of the seven- teenth century which are found on book stalls , none are so common as those on Dialling . Each of the old dials usually had its ...
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Page 130 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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