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Boddington; "somebody might give us a slap, you know, when we don't expect it, and it's best to be ready; and so, Evan Knowlton'll be one o' them that has to stand somewhere with his musket to his shoulder, and look after a lot o' powder behind him all the while." "Du tell! if it takes four years to learn 'em to du that," said Miss Babbage, the doctor's sister.
I asked him if Babbage was in the room, and he said, 'Not yet, so I hoped he would come. "He told me that a fine-looking, white-headed, good-featured old man was Roget, of the 'Thesaurus; and another old man in the corner was Dr. Arnott, of the 'Elements of Physics. I had supposed he was dead long ago. Afterwards I was introduced to him.
Babbage to make his celebrated Calculating or Difference Engine. The contrivance of a machine that should work out complicated sums in arithmetic with perfect precision, was, as may readily be imagined, one of the most difficult feats of the mechanical intellect. To do this was in an especial sense to stamp matter with the impress of mind, and render it subservient to the highest thinking faculty.
Then the voice of Parson Babbage was lifted: "I publish the Banns of marriage between Zebedee Minards, bachelor, and Ruby Tresidder, spinster, both of this parish. If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons " At this instant the church-door flew open, as if driven in by the wind that tore up the aisle in an icy current. All heads were turned.
It seems at first sight a mysterious fact that in different nations, under different conditions and climates, in Naples, Prussia, Westphalia, Holland, France, England and the United States, the excess of male over female births is less when they are illegitimate than when legitimate. Babbage, 'Edinburgh Journal of Science, 1829, vol. i. p. 88; also p. 90, on still-born children.
The recollection carried Sir George Grey to the astronomer's part in quite a different affair. He had the tale from Herschel himself, and classed it with the somewhat relative incidents of Carlyle and Babbage. It was worse for the victim. 'Nevertheless, said Sir George, 'his statement of it to me, was marked by much humour and enjoyment.
But it was I who shrank back when the door opened: for the person who opened it was Mr. "Do the Widow Babbage live here?" stammered Mr. Jope. "She do not," answered Mr. George slowly, and added, "worse luck!" "Is is she dead?" "No, she ain't," answered Mr. George, and pulled himself up. "Then what's the matter with her?" "There ain't nothing the matter with her, as I know by," answered Mr.
Now so ludicrous was the figure I cut in my borrowed clothes that on returning to the cabin I expected to be welcomed with laughter. To my surprise, Ben Jope arose at once with a serious face and shook me by the hand. "Good-bye, my lad," he said. "She makes it a condition." "You're not leaving me, Mr. Jope!" "Worse'n that. I'm a-goin to marry the widow Babbage." "Oh, ma'am!" I appealed.
I am left here like a vessel on its beam ends, to mark the distance to which the current has been drifting during a good many bygone years. I have outlived nearly all my early friends. Whewell, Master of Trinity, was the last of the old stock who was living here. Herschel has not been here for several years. Babbage was here for a day or two during the year before last.
From the last point I ascended, as from others, there was a large mountain bearing N.E. by N. from me, distant 50 or 60 miles, which I rightly judged to be Mount Lyell. It was a bold, round hill, without any particular feature, but evidently the loftiest connected with the Barrier Range. Mount Babbage bore N. by E. and was only just visible above the dark scrubs between me and it.
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