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"Had it been possible to suggest any superstition about a man universally popular, people would have said that this henchman of time and minute-hand of diligence drew his power from doubtful sources. Further north, where there was less superstition than amongst these mingled unspiritualized populations, Minuit might have been burnt as a wizard.
We cannot conceive how the same grass produces lamb, pork and beef; but we keep on raising stock just the same, because we are guided by facts learned by experience and observation rather than by conceivability. We do reach our mouth, the minute-hand does overtake the hour-hand, objects do move in space, etc., rationalism and inconceivability to the contrary notwithstanding.
"No, no," interrupted David: "that would have been foolish. But what shall we do with it now?" "Yes, what shall we?" It ticked to be sure somewhat unevenly and the minute-hand was slowly advancing. "Shall we bury it again, or throw it into the river?" I asked at last. "Or shall we not give it to Latkin?" "No," answered David, "none of those things. But do you know?
Jonas Fleetword, one of the soundest of Puritan divines, stood like a statue of cast iron in the doorway, his arms folded on his breast, and his brow contracting into a narrow and fretted arch, as the minute-hand moved round and round the dial of the old clock.
But, damn it all! how could he take aim if he was holding the watch in his hand and counting the seconds on the dial? Irresolutely he looked down at his watch. This was like a bad joke, and perfectly maddening. Suddenly an idea came to him. The minute-hand showed just two minutes to the hour. In two minutes then the barrack clock would strike three. That would be as good as counting.
She stood by the low fender in her boudoir, watching the minute-hand of the clock, and waiting till it should be time for her to leave the house in safety. "I will wait ten minutes," she said, "not a moment beyond, before I enter on my new peril." She listened to the wild roaring of the March wind, which seemed to have risen with the stillness and darkness of the night.
The attitude of the Governors in their conferences is one of concentration on State and Interstate problems which are outside of the domain and Constitutional rights of the Federal Government to solve. There can be no interference when each confines itself to its own duties. In keeping the time of the nation the Federal Government represents the hour-hand, the States, united, the minute-hand.
By the time the minute-hand of the clock over the chairman's seat had reached twenty-five minutes past seven the meeting being advertised to begin at half-past seven the hall was densely packed from one end to the other, the only unoccupied places being one or two seats close under the platform.
He was amazed at the continual noise it made, and the motion of the minute-hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much more acute than ours: and asked the opinions of his learned men about him, which were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine without my repeating; although, indeed, I could not perfectly understand them.
Thomas being set to make inquiry, discovers their names on the minute-hand, and reports accordingly; and they are sent for, a knot of their friends making derisive and pantomimic allusions to what their fate will be as they walk off.
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