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"And I suppose all the other clockmakers promptly began to copy it," interposed Christopher. "Precisely!" smiled the Scotchman. "The old wag-on-the-wall, and in many instances even the grandfather clock was consigned to the ash heap, and the pillar clock became the only clock worth having. It was, fortunately, within range of the most modest purse, costing only fifteen dollars. Mr.
"Oh," said I, taking out of my pocket the first and second "Clockmakers," I had no other of my books on board, and giving them to her, "I am afraid, Miss, that I either said or did something to offend you this morning. I assure you I did not mean to do so, and I am very sorry for it." "No, no," she said, "it was me; but my temper has been greatly tried since I came to this country.
Furthermore, having no calendars, these figures served the purpose of telling them what day it was and reminding them of the church holidays. This explains why so many of the early clockmakers devoted such a degree of energy and skill to fashioning all sorts of pantomimes to be enacted by miniature figures at certain hours.
The strings of commerce are made principally from the intestines of sheep, and, singularly, have been always designated as 'catgut. Other articles from the same source are hatters' bowstrings, clockmakers' cords, and thongs for whips and laces for boots." "What are the best kinds of strings for musical instruments?"
What wouldn't the old clockmakers Tompion, Quare, Fromanteel, Graham and the rest have given to see it! They probably never even imagined a clock of such proportions." "Neither did I!" his companion announced. "How often did this giant have to be wound up?" "The clock part was wound once a week; the striking part twice.
A man must serve a long apprenticeship before he could be admitted to the Clockmakers' Company and once enrolled must put his address in all his clocks so everybody would know he had a right to make and sell them." "It wasn't a bad idea." "Not at all bad. Nevertheless, the clockmakers were a stern, tyrannical lot.
The Scottish firm of J. and G.H. Gibson, glass-stainers, Philadelphia, obtained a national reputation for artistic work. Daniel and Nathaniel Munroe, clockmakers, were famous as such in Massachusetts in the beginning of the nineteenth century. His compositions include songs, anthems, organ music, a Lenten Cantata, "The Message from the Cross."
She said that as noble families could not produce a Moliere, a Racine, a Rousseau, a Voltaire, a Massillon, a Beaumarchais, or a Diderot, people must make up their minds to it, and accept the fact that great men had upholsterers and clockmakers and cutlers for their fathers. She said that genius was always noble. She railed at boorish squires for understanding their real interests so imperfectly.
"Under whom did you learn your trade?" the governor asked; "for I have been in Nuremberg and know most of the guild of clockmakers by name." "Under Jans Boerhoff, the syndic of the guild," Malcolm replied. "Ah!" the baron said shortly; "and his shop is in " "The Cron Strasse," Malcolm said promptly in answer to the implied question.
Do you think that the silk-workers, whose average wages does not reach forty cents; the milliners at ten cents; the jewellers, goldsmiths, and clockmakers, with their interminable periods of idleness; servants at forty dollars, do you think that they earn too much?
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