 | 1824 - 706 pages
...affairs of men, in all their relations, of the invention of the little machine which I hold in my hands ; and the other modern instruments for the measurement...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, nature's trembling steps toward recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy... | |
 | Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association - 1837 - 986 pages
...of men, in all their relations, of the invention of the little machine which I hold in rny hands ; and the other modern instruments for the measurement...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, nature's trembling steps toward recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1838 - 300 pages
...for measuring the lapse of time ! Who can calculate in how many of those critical junctures when the affairs of weightiest import hang upon the issue of...than mere mechanism, which watches with us by the sick bed of some dear friend, through the Education increases our Command ovu the Products of Nature.... | |
 | 1838 - 716 pages
...weightiest import hang upon the issue of an hour, Prudence and Forecast have triumphed over Wind Casuality, by being enabled to measure with precision the flight...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, nature's trembling steps toward recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy... | |
 | 1839 - 430 pages
...Forec.ist have triumphed over blind Casualty, by being enabled to measure with precision the flight ol time, in its smallest subdivisions ! Is it not something more than mere mechunism, which watches with us by the sick bed of some dear friend, through the live-long s.>!ti,.<l... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 pages
...timekeepers to the purposes of navigation, how vast must be the aggregate effect, on the af* A watch. fairs of life, throughout the civilized world, and in the...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, Nature's trembling steps toward recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...in all their relations, of the invention of the little machine which I hold in my hand, (a watch,) and the other modern instruments for the measurement...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, nature's trembling steps towards recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy... | |
 | Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association - 1853 - 464 pages
...useful and mechanic arts with intellectual progress, let us but advert for a moment to the mariners compass, the telescope, the quadrant. For myself,...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, nature's trembling steps toward recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - 1856 - 580 pages
...hold in my hand, (a watch,) and the other modern instruments for the rneas* Vol. II. p. 224. urement of time, various specimens of which are on exhibition...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, nature's trembling steps towards recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1870 - 700 pages
...convenient and portable apparatus for measuring the lapse of time ! Who can calculate, in how many of tho§e critical junctures, when affairs of weightiest import...livelong solitude of night, enables us to count, in the slackening pulse, nature's trembling steps towards recovery, and to administer the prescribed remedy... | |
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I hold in my hand, (a watch,) and the other modern instruments for the measurement of time, various specimens of which are on exhibition in the halls. To say nothing of the importance of an accurate measurement of time in astronomical observations, nothing... 