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Formerly, too, sticks of incense, to burn for a certain number of hours, as well as graduated candles, made with the assistance of the water-clock, were in great demand; these have now quite disappeared as time-recorders. The Chinese year is a lunar year. When the moon has travelled twelve times round the earth, the year is completed.
He furnishes Paley with the idea for his well-known illustration of the man who finds a watch; "when we see a dial or a water-clock, we believe that the hour is shown thereon by art, and not by chance". He gives also an illustration from the poet Attius, which from a poetical imagination has since become an historical incident; the shepherds who see the ship Argo approaching take the new monster for a thing of life, as the Mexicans regarded the ships of Cortes.
Among the most valued presents which were said to have come from the Caliph were an elephant, and a curious water-clock, which was so made, that, at the end of the hours, twelve horsemen came out of twelve windows, and closed up twelve other windows. This gift filled the inmates of the palace at Aix with wonder. They were thinned out in the wars, or sunk into vassalage.
One of the most curious uses to which it was put, was to mark the Suprema tempestas, which closed the hours of legal business, by means of its shadow projected on the pavement; a primitive mode of reckoning time which existed before the first Punic war, and was afterwards superseded by a sun-dial and a clepsydra or water-clock erected in the Forum.
"Delay not it grows late, and we may be interrupted." "We may indeed," murmured Giulia, darting a rapid look at the water-clock. "It is within a few minutes of midnight." She might have added "And at midnight I expect a brief visit from Manuel d'Orsini, ere the return of my husband from a banquet at a friend's villa."
The old courtesans whispered into one another's ears, with a degree of respect, that a petty Asiatic king, on passing through Athens, had given Myrrhina two talents for one visit as much as any republic in Greece would spend in a year and that the beautiful hetæra, unmoved by such a fortune, had suffered his presence only while her clepsydra emptied itself once, for, tired of men, she measured prurience by her water-clock.
We do you to wit that you stand but in your own light. Your marriage is annulled. What good then shall come of your 'knowledgment, saving your own easement? But for other sake, if ye do persist yet in your unwisdom, we must needs make note of you as a disobedient subject." There was silence again, only broken by the quiet regular dripping of the water-clock in a corner of the room.
Go on go on.... Be brave, and His strength will be made manifest in your weakness. ............... It was late that night before Synesius compelled his guest to retire, after having warned him not to disturb himself if he heard the alarm-bell ring, as the house was well garrisoned, and having set the water-clock by which he and his servants measured their respective watches.
To explain which, he proposeth the instance of a water-clock, which gives the account of time by the running of water.
The water-clock was punctual in its duty, and I slept until next morning soundly, with the exception of the periodical interruption. "April 4th. Arose in good health and spirits, and was astonished at the singular change which had taken place in the appearance of the sea.
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