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• I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
• Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
• The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
• Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
• The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,…
• It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he…
• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…

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