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The fineness and variety of the machinery are so amazing, so beautiful, there is such an exquisite combination of form and movement, such sensitive teeth and fingers and wheels and points of steel, such fairy knives of sapphire, with which King Oberon the first might have been beheaded, had he insisted upon levying dew-taxes upon primroses without the authority of his elves, such smooth cylinders, and flying points so rapidly revolving that they seem perfectly still. such dainty oscillations of parts with the air of intelligent consciousness of movement, that a machinery so extensive in details, so complex, so harmonious, at length entirely magnetizes you with wonder and delight, and you are firmly persuaded that you behold the magnified parts of a huge brain in the very act of thinking out watches.
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