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I cannot say, in my heart, that it gave me any concern in being told by one of the minor canons, as I was entering the west door, That Lippius's great clock was all out of joints, and had not gone for some years It will give me the more time, thought I, to peruse the Chinese history; and besides I shall be able to give the world a better account of the clock in its decay, than I could have done in its flourishing condition
Now I almost know as little of the Chinese language, as I do of the mechanism of Lippius's clock-work; so, why these should have jostled themselves into the two first articles of my list I leave to the curious as a problem of Nature. I own it looks like one of her ladyship's obliquities; and they who court her, are interested in finding out her humour as much as I.
And now for Lippius's clock! said I, with the air of a man, who had got thro' all his difficulties nothing can prevent us seeing that, and the Chinese history, &c. except the time, said Francois for 'tis almost eleven then we must speed the faster, said I, striding it away to the cathedral.
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