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That would make it now, at the present moment in Jefferson "He leaped to his feet with a cry: "'I've got it! he shouted, 'I see it. "'See what? asked his wife, alarmed. "'Why, it's four o'clock in Jefferson, and just time for my ride. That's what I'm wanting. "There could be no doubt about it. For five-and-twenty years he had lived by clockwork.
Then is my soul homeless? Or is it to be identified with the activity and fortunes of a single atomic constituent of my body, a single cog in the animal clockwork? If so, how irrational! For the soul does not experience itself as the soul of one minute part, but as the soul of the body. Such questions rose thick and fast in the minds of the seventeenth-century philosophers.
Are you clockwork, hey? Away! This is no place for you. 'Go away! Leave me! At this moment Dick beat a retreat in a disarray of nerves, a whistling and clamour of his own arteries, and in short in such a final bodily disorder as made him alike incapable of speech or hearing. And in the midst of all this turmoil, a sense of unpardonable injustice remained graven in his memory.
The telescope is supported upon a stone pillar in the centre, and a clockwork arrangement compensates for the earth's rotation, and allows a star once found to be continuously observed. Besides this, there is a compact tracery of wheels and screws about its point of support, by which the astronomer adjusts it.
This prodigious machine is directed and guided by a tail seven palmi long, which is attached to the knees and ankles of the inventor by leather straps; by stretching out his legs, either to the right or to the left, he moves the machine in whichever direction he pleases.... The machine's flight lasts only three hours, after which the wings gradually close themselves, when the inventor, perceiving this, goes down gently, so as to get on his own feet, and then winds up the clockwork and gets himself ready again upon the wings for the continuation of a new flight.
Is it that the clockwork has been wound up and must still jolt on a while with jarring wheels? Will it never run down, do you think? Herbert smiled faintly, but made no answer. 'You see, continued Lawford, in the same quiet, dispassionate undertone, 'I wouldn't mind if it was only myself. But there are so many of us, so many selves, I mean; and they all seem to have a voice in the matter.
"Fine," said the Clockwork Man. "You have done a ve-ry good job, Kal-i-ko, and saved me from de-struc-tion. Much o-bliged." "Don't mention it," replied the Chief Steward. "I quite enjoyed the work." Just then the Nome King's gong sounded, and Kaliko rushed away through the jewel-studded cavern and into the den where the King had hidden, leaving the doors ajar.
The old Abbots' House had merged its original antique gloom in the softer character of pleasing repose. All her servants adored Mrs. Ashleigh; all found it a pleasure to please her; her establishment had the harmony of clockwork; comfort diffused itself round her like quiet sunshine round a sheltered spot.
As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club.
Empty heads, heads without ideas in wholesome variety and sufficient number to furnish food for the mental clockwork, ill-regulated heads, where the faculties are not under the control of the will, these are the ones that hold the brains which their owners are so apt to tamper with, by introducing the appliances we have been talking about.
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