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...duced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any informati... ... shot, shatering the spinal column of one of the Dark Ones. The other two mechanically still fred on the rebels, one of them received a gaping hole ... ...er raids. The dictator had preferred to push the top secret, experimental hardware into production for use by his Grand Army. These were things that... ...de explosives, mixed from supplies that they had looted from an abandoned hardware store. They were going to borrow a tech- nique that terrorists in ... ...d worked his way to the cash register, which was so old it was completely mechanical, so it still worked. He popped open the drawer and saw it was s... ...looked institutional. “That’s actually a really good idea, if I can fnd a hardware store that hasn’t been totally ransacked. This last trip to fnd s... ...th access to clas- sifed information, as well as the locations of military hardware and personnel, including Special Forces. Rather than try to stage... ...No, I saw something worse.” “What is it Joey?” Josee asked. “Some kind of mechanical giant. It’s as tall as a city building and it’s ripping down ev... ...eation of the Seekers, as well as the manufacture of top secret military hardware that had been nothing but prototypes previously. Jade stood and wa...

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...a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior w... ...ollowed them. Behind the smaller barn were two wagons, full to the brim with mechanical equipment. I walked over to one of them and pulled back the... ...ed pretty much in town anyway, spending time in and out of the dry goods and hardware stores. Sometime mid-morning, I had just come out of one of ... ...d found it great place to browse. It was full of all kinds of clothing, food, hardware and other good stuff. I’d never, however, seen anything ther...

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...ied up, competing standards fractured an already fragile marketplace, the hardware (e-book readers) was clunky and awkward, the software unwieldy, t... ...at and Microsoft's MS Reader LIT format are likely to be the winners), as hardware improves and becomes ubiquitous (within multi-purpose devices or ... ...pare these figures to the sale of Internet software (4 billion), Internet hardware (3 billion), Internet access provision (4.2 billion in 1995 alone!... ...ure to be demands to allocate time (or space, or software, or content, or hardware) to "minorities", to "public affairs", to "community business". Th... ...hes Tough competition produces four processes: 1. A Major Drop in Hardware Prices This happens in every medium but it doubly applies to a c... ...publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustr... ...ed themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be expressed as... ...all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church's road and... ... values of all the functions whose values can be found using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Machine in t...

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... yet it could be at home on someone’s desk. Instead of puzzling over bits of hardware or typing up punch cards to feed into someone else’s main- frame... ... of The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net 8 the initial model of bundled hardware and software that is created and con- trolled by one company. Th... ...ased IBM’s mainframes on a monthly ba- sis, and the lease covered everything—hardware, software, maintenance, and training. 4 Businesses developed lit... ...were selling actual uses, and many makers considered themselves to be in the hardware business only. T o them, the PCs were solutions waiting for prob... ... code directly into the hard- ware of the machine, and to make the machine’s hardware perform that specific task. This embedding process occurs in the ... ...ransfer your intellectual property rights in the solu- tion.”). 22. Amazon’s Mechanical T urk, http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome (last visited Sept. ... ...t. 30, 2007); see also Posting of Elinor Mills to T ech News Blog, Amazon ’s Mechanical T urk Lets You Make $$$, Sort Of, http://www.news.com/8301-107... ...8 amateur innovation, 26, 27 Amazon.com, 214; differential pricing by, 204–5; Mechanical T urk, 246; “mouse droppings,” 217, 219; and user ratings, 146...

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...s to withdraw the standard altogether. This would impact thousands of software and hardware products. This is only the latest in a serious of spats... ...forgettable lessons about markets and the way they work, namely that "objective", "mechanical" capitalism is a mirage. Perhaps the most important m... ...tion of the same underlying principles. To qualify as a "Law" (embedded in external hardware - technology - or in internal hardware - the brain), it... ...ors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be ex... ...a set of all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church'... ...ulate the values of all the functions whose values can be found using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Ma... ...ith one "ideal" exception: its unbounded memory (the tape is infinite). Despite its hardware appearance (a read/write head which scans a two-dimensi... ... (with the exception of the brain) - the identity will remain the same. The human hardware (body) and software (the wiring of the brain) are conve... ...ified as the same computer. This, partly, is the result of the separation between hardware (=the microprocessor) and software (=the programmes tha...

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...al innovation in every generation. The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, late... ...r. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admit... ...ctions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the physical wiring of the hardware. This is akin to the development of the embryonic brain... ...neral, much stronger, class theory (a-la Principia Mathematica). The integration of hardware (computer, brain) and software (computer applications, ... ...ilt into all the aspects and dimensions of the brain and its activities. Redundant hardware -different centers to perform similar tasks. Redundant ... ...xpect to find that we can reduce all the activities of the brain to computational, mechanically solvable, recursive functions. The brain can be reg... ... true. 6. The brain must be a learning, self organizing, entity. The brain's very hardware must disassemble, reassemble, reorganize, restructure, ...

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...al innovation in every generation. The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, late... ...r. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admit... ...ctions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the physical wiring of the hardware. This is akin to the development of the embryonic brain... ...neral, much stronger, class theory (a-la Principia Mathematica). The integration of hardware (computer, brain) and software (computer applications, ... ...ilt into all the aspects and dimensions of the brain and its activities. Redundant hardware -different centers to perform similar tasks. Redundant ... ...xpect to find that we can reduce all the activities of the brain to computational, mechanically solvable, recursive functions. The brain can be reg... ... true. 6. The brain must be a learning, self organizing, entity. The brain's very hardware must disassemble, reassemble, reorganize, restructure, ... ...ced in the thought experiment by a Turing machine. His functions are recursive and mechanical. But there is a much more serious objection. Whomever... ...ies to be discarded after use. Admittedly, that, in itself, is evil. Yet, it is the mechanical, thoughtless, heartless face of narcissistic abuse – ...

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...nfinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the same way as temperature, volume an... ...ena does not mean that it IS the mental phenomena. Mental phenomena do have brain (hardware) correlates but these correlates need not be confused ... ...rs confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be exp... ...a set of all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church'... ...ulate the values of all the functions whose values can be found using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Ma... ...nning the TM (=Turing Machine in the rest of this text) was really an effective or mechanical method. For the initiated readers: Church solved the ... ...th one "ideal" exception: its unbounded memory (the tape is infinite). Despite its hardware appearance (a read/write head which scans a two-dimensi... ...ent phenomena) regard the mind as the by-product of the complexity of the brain's "hardware" and "wiring". But all of them ignore the psychophysica... ...ssumes that something exists (the "mind", the "psyche") which cannot be reduced to hardware or to wiring diagrams. Talk therapy is aimed at that so...

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...HMi., V. 8.A. ALWAYS EASY Perry A. Smedley Girpenter and Builder Dealer In Hardware, Glass, Paints, Oils and Varnishes Bank Block Spring: Street THOMA... ... Poultry, Etc. Spring Street, Williamstown B. H. Sherman Dealer in 5toves, Hardware, Qrates. Etc. Call and examine the Glenwood Steam Heater and the D... ...rtaa of Ac«d^i»k Costume Perry A. Smedley Carpenter and Btiilder Dealer In Hardware, Glass, Paints, Oils College Caps I and Varnishes and Gowns BAok e... ... Poultry, Etc. Spring Strtet, Williamstown B. H. Sherman Dealer in Stoves, Hardware, Orates, Etc. Call Bnd examine the Glenwood Steam Heater and the D... ...ai.,TT.B,A. ALWAYS EASY ' Perry A. Smedley Carpenter and Builder Dealer in Hardware, Glass, Paints, Oils and Varnishes Bank Block Spring: Street THOMA... ...he enlarge- ment of the student's field of vision, not of his knowledge of mechanical details; that the func- tion of an instructor Is to teach the pu... ...s with the Piainfield Daily Press of Piainfield, N. J. Morrill is studying mechanical enK'neeringatColumbiauniversity. Morrison is teaching in the gra...

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...n. Or perhaps not. Think of the way that Jefferson traced the origins of the mechanical arts used in the elevators and hopper-boys all the way back to... ...or a narrowly defined range of uses. We must create interlocking software and hardware systems that monitor and control the material played on those sy... ...ones who think about it a little longer realize that these factors cannot be mechanically applied. Look at factor 3, for example. Someone who is makin... ...law. The ranchers—whose digital equivalents are communications companies and hardware manufacturers—chafed under these new rules. The most pow- erful ... ... most DVDs could not be played. The manufacturer then embeds this key in its hardware design in such a way that it is easy for your player to de- code... ...er the cheaper DVDs will “leak” into the more lucrative markets. CSS and the hardware scheme that unlocks it can also The Farmers’ T ale 89 ___-1 ___0... ...n a simple anticopying device. The entire scheme—the keys, the licenses, the hardware requirements—was designed to give movie studios greater control ... ...lar ears, “Jesus Is All the World to Me” is a plodding piece of music with a mechanical, up-and-down melodic structure. It conjures up a bored (and wh... ...e. As Walter Benjamin pointed out long ago in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” cheap copying actually increases the demand for...

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...el J. Boorstin (1914-2004) The Gift of Memory With our wondrous speech hardware and software came another hardware gift—our brain‘s memory. To ex... ...y must have been the first system to gain accuracy and lower costs with a mechanical device that replaced direct handwork. Interchangeable parts an... ...Mergenthaler, nevertheless, deserves a place alongside the likes of other mechanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas...

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...Dimensions were created logically, naturally, organically, mathematically and mechanically in a strict causal order of 1-2-3... Before the 3 Dimens... ...Dimensions were created logically, naturally, organically, mathematically and mechanically in a strict causal order of 1-2-3 The reason why our Uni... ... Impetus. Science has mistakenly tried to categorize aspects of Impetus into mechanical characteristics; of Inertia, Momentum and Mass. Science ha... ...rom, because Science has not realized that Impetus is as Organic Force; not a mechanical one. Take light rays as an example. Light rays traveling... ...ness Chapter One: The Universe 15 called Formlessness. Impetus was not a mechanical force: it was an Organic Primal Force. And the Primal Medi... ...all kinds of oligarchic monopolies; from chocolate, bananas, wood, chemicals, hardware stores, video stores, software companies, and oil… to running ... ...ergy, 9 hours out of that poor person’s life. If the poor person goes to the hardware store, buys his own pipes and tools and fixes the pipes himsel...

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...y be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information stora... ...Not only was he a deacon in the local church, but also owned the largest hardware store in town. Chris continued. “We’ll see what he has to say when... ...knew exactly what his friend was up to. “Why can’t he get it at the local hardware store, like everything else?” “Out of stock. What he needs will ta... ...rom the music store, he purchased the perfect gift for Kelly and from the hardware, a tool set for Mitchell to build a new billycart. Frustration set...

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...y be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information stora... ... give one the impression they were built from the same blueprint and some hardware store once did a booming trade in whitewash. Unbeknown to the res... ...ore. This incidentally is the only one in town and serves as a newsagent, hardware and petrol station. The locals have no other choice than to shop a...

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...reproduced, restored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written ... ...and egress only; (b) Keep all windows, glass, window coverings, doors, locks and hardware in good, clean order and repair; (c) Not obstruct or cove...

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...a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior w... ...ep him for special jobs, but this situation qualifies and we’ll need all the hardware we can muster. So…Montana, these are your fellow deputies.” ...

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...y be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information stora... ...m?" "Yes. It is not just a program; it's designed to work with a specific hardware." "Tell me, this guardian program, does it give yah full control ...

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...e confidence in him and she treats his ideas with deference. She defers all mechanical judgments to men whom she supposes to have such genetic predis... ...sty--are you from the family of wealthy politicians?" "No, nothing special. Hardware store." "A hardware tycoon." "Dad's a worker; but he supervises ... ...ocking on her door and when she answered it a stoic Rita/Lily with obdurate, mechanical, and glazed eyes injected a drug into her arm. When Gabriele w... ...ng was wild with its vibration but in tone alone it was similar to the calm, mechanical chirping sounds of pedestrian streetlights in Sapporo. She had...

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...y be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information stora... ... not as soft as they claim, I might have to re-think the campaign using a hardware store and sand paper. Steven’s right, but I’m not going to openly...

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...nd loved free- dom and his copper kettle a thousand times better—a kind of hardware Diogenes. Of fiddling he has no better opinion. The picture repres... ...in the latter plate, and in another in this volume, how great the artist’s mechanical skill is as an etcher. The distant view of the city in the duel,... ...is quite unlike that of any other draftsman. There is nothing in the least mechanical about it; to produce his particular effects he uses his own part...

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...eir bodies. And, in the second place, we all overlooked the fact that such mechanical intelligence as the Martian possessed was quite able to dispense... ...d with little pools of water about me on the stair carpet. I got up almost mechanically, went into the dining room and drank some whiskey, and then I ... ...or did I know, though I was beginning to guess, the relation between these mechanical colossi and the sluggish lumps I had seen dis- gorged from the c... ...—simply wiped us out,” he repeated again and again. He followed me, almost mechanically, into the dining room. “Take some whiskey,” I said, pouring ou... ...handful of small sluggish creatures, but that they were minds swaying vast mechanical bodies; and that they could move swiftly and smite with such pow... ...me we could see an uprooted drainpipe. The floor was littered with smashed hardware; the end of the kitchen towards the house was broken into, and sin...

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...lway station is the final aspiration of architec- ture. Sam Clark’s annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God’s C... ...hool is a regular wonder—reads Latin like I do English; and Sam Clark, the hardware man, he’s a corker— not a better man in the state to go hunting wi... ...body straight.” “Course you haven’t, child. Well, I’m Sam Clark, dealer in hardware, sporting goods, cream separators, and al- most any kind of heavy ... ... granite-ware frying-pan reposing on a sun-faded crepe blouse. Sam Clark’s Hardware Store. An air of frankly metallic enterprise. Guns and churns and ... ...f which she had bought in Chicago. She was led about the circle. Her voice mechanically produced safe remarks: “Oh, I’m sure I’m going to like it here... ... never entered it, the Minniemashie House ceased to exist for her. Clark’s Hardware Store, Dyer’s Drug Store, the groceries of Ole Jenson and Frederic... ...e more money. She was sorry— Perhaps he had made all the mystery of love a mechanical cautiousness but—She fled from the thought with a dubious, “Some... ...vious and tedious aspects; never of his aspirations in finance, nor of the mechanical principles of motors. This month of romance she was eager to und... ...t the place was Mentone. Along the drive below her swept barouches, with a mechanical tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, tlot- tlot, and great cars with polished b...

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... bestowed her with my Lady Countess, our good customer for all man- ner of hardware, or else with her own kin.” The good woman’s stream of conversatio... ...cause.” Lambert only sighed. “I would fain your way was not won by a base, mechanical art,” he said. “Out on you, my master. The needle and the bobbin... ...d sped you northward. How is it that you are here, weav- ing lace like any mechanical sempstress? Nay, nay! I cannot listen to you on your knees. We h...

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...thing but getting his ar mor; but so I got his bandanna, he could keep his hardware, for all of me. Meantime, it was getting hotter and hotter in th... ...ssets? Just a rubbish pile of battered corpses and a barrel or two of busted hardware. Can you call those assets? Give me pork, every time. Am I rig... ... the paper by and large, I was vastly pleased with it. Little crudities of a mechanical sort were observable here and there, but there were not enough... ...tes we stood under a steady drizzle of microscopic fragments of knights and hardware and horse flesh. I say we, for the king joined the audience, of... ...e spiritlessness is wanting; that’s what’s the trouble. It’s all amatueur — mechanical details all right, al most to a hair; everything about the de...

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...our days. They were a great people; feeding the world, adding daily to the mechanical appliances of mankind, increasing in popu- lation beyond all mea... ...ce with it. In commerce, in education, in all municipal ar- rangements, in mechanical skill, and also in professional ability the country has stalked ... ...ut he afterward learned that they were of no use. He bought groceries of a hardware dealer named Davidson, at Albany, that town whence came Mr. Weed’s... ...hips laden outside with iron shields instead of inside with soft goods and hardware to these thickly thronged Ameri- can ports. It cannot be good for ...

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...o vast a sense of the former. When I think of the progress of physical and mechanical science, of medicine and sanitation during the last century, whe... ...ar- ber, a linen-draper (who brewed his own beer); a veterinary surgeon, a hardware shop, and two capacious inns. Round and about it were a number of ... ...n woodwork with iron nails instead of wooden pegs, to achieve all sorts of mechanical possibilities, to trade more freely and manufacture on a larger ... ...e beginning of the growth period, the first trickle of the coming flood of mechanical power. Away in the north they were casting iron in bigger and bi... ...cal section. The financiers, too, are adven- turous-spirited and eager for mechanical progress and tech- nical efficiency. They are prepared to spend ...

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...tter. He could not fail to see that trade was picking up. In dry goods, in hardware, in manufactures there seemed to be a different spirit, and he cou... ...looking on with the solemn interest that all American business men have in mechanical inventions. Jadwin sat down before it, pulled out a stop or two,... ...y, clear cut, each note clearly, sharply treated with a precision that, if mechanical, was yet effective. Jadwin, his eyes now on the stops, now on th... ...tural woods and dull “colour effects,” its cunning electrical devices, its mechanical contrivances for comfort, like the ready- made luxury and “conve...

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...ng floors of the great de- partment houses, inspecting and pricing ranges, hardware, china, and the like. They rented the photographer’s rooms furnish... ... big drawing-board straddled on spindle legs across one end of the room, a mechanical drawing of some kind, no doubt the plan of the mine, 262 McTeag...

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... and perhaps, as the saying is, ugly enough, to be the most correct of all mechanical performers; in Mr Pinch’s eyes, however they were smaller than G... ... were occasionally heard, indicative of small articles of iron mongery and hardware being thrown at the boy. It was the custom of that youth on Saturd... ...e, when a cup of tea was given him, in which he was seen to soak his bread mechanically. There was no reason to suppose that he went to sleep at these... ...lers’ baskets of small shaving-glasses, laces, braces, trouser-straps, and hardware; savoury with the same unstinted show of delicate pigs’ feet, and ... ... a curious study. Let him go on, sir.’ ‘Go on!’ observed the old man; in a mechanical obedience, it appeared, to Mr Pecksniff’s suggestion. ‘I have be...

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...f the apartment. The action, however, was but momentary, his gaze returned mechanically to the wall. To his extreme horror and astonish- ment, the hea... ...he lunarians, and bearing so little resemblance to humanity, yet evinced a mechanical ingenuity so much superior to our own. One finds it difficult, t... ..., and that he delighted, especially, in commenting upon the rapid march of mechanical invention. Indeed, lead him where I would, this was a point to w... ... a deep sense of the valuable privileges we enjoy in living in this age of mechanical invention. My curiosity, however, had not been altogether satisf... ...een years of age, into the counting-house of what be termed “a respectable hardware and commission merchant doing a capital bit of busi- ness!” A capi... ...h, I was a thankful boy in the main. I was saved from being a “respectable hardware and commission merchant, doing a capital bit of business,” and I f... ...h can be considered as decisive—and accordingly we find every where men of mechanical genius, of great general acuteness, and dis- criminative underst...

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... be surprised if they were told that the free admission of our cottons and hardware into the French market, would en- danger their branch of manufactu... ...tageously pay us in silks for a portion of the large amount of cottons and hardware which we should sell to her; and though 37 John Stuart Mill our s... ... lays down the laws of motion, and the prop- erties of what are called the mechanical powers. The art of practical mechanics teaches how we may avail ...

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...e discharge. He seemed a galvanizing appara tus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the ten der young imaginations that were to be s... ... Gradgrind directed his steps. He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a... ...e primest quality. Iron clamps and girders, fire proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; eve... ...o the light and said, ‘Louisa, never wonder!’ Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the ... ...mployed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ...

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...the chief town of Warwickshire, and the adjacent district, the seat of our hardware manufac- tures, was the very focus of disaffection towards the roy... ...nton. Verse for verse, any one thousand lines of a transla- tion so purely mechanical might stand against any other thou- sand; and so far the equatio... ...nd court sermons, he will have some adequate idea of the sterility and the mechanical for- mality which at that era spread the sleep of death over Ger...

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...k, does not so well suit the climate of England as that of France. But the hardware and the coarse woollens of England are beyond all comparison supe-... ...d and labour of Great Britain pro- duce generally more corn, woollens, and hardware, than the de- mand of the home market requires. The surplus part o... ...reckon that trade disadvantageous, which consists in the ex- change of the hardware of England for the wines of France, and yet hardware is a very dur... ...ent branches of our woollen manufacture, of our tanned leather, and of our hardware, are annually exported to other European countries with- out any b... ...ageous for England that it could purchase the wines of France with its own hardware and broad cloth, than with either the to- bacco of Virginia, or th... ...cessarily becomes one of the most complicated among them. The state of the mechanical, as well as some other arts, with which it is necessarily connec...