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• Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
• I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
• The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
• 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,…
• A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved…
• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

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