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...ace with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory. After the machine is fin- ished, and the steam turned on, the next is to drive it; an... ... the block for raising the first principal beam of the beacon; and a winch machine was also bolted down to the rock for working the purchase-tackle. U... ...n with regard to the propri- ety of connecting large bells to be rung with machinery in the lighthouse, to be tolled day and night during the con- tin... ...d now been on board of the praam for five days. The several pieces of this machine, having been con- veyed along the railways upon the waggons to a po... ...cting the tops of the kingposts of the bridge, which was worked by a winch-machine with wheel, pinion, and 133 Records of a Family of Engineers barre... ...ht; and the walls, being thinner, were less com- modious for the necessary machinery and the artificers em- ployed, which considerably retarded the wo... ...ourse was in a sheltered spot, within the reach of the tackle of the winch-machine upon the bridge; a few stones were stowed upon the bridge itself, a... ...the utility of the large bells which were in preparation to be rung by the machinery of the revolving light; for, had it not been the sound of the smi... ... places on the top of the parapet-wall; and the balance-crane, that useful machine having now lifted all the heavier articles, was un- screwed and low...

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...beginning to cut the boiled beef as fast as if his hands had been moved by machinery. “He has been with me to see old Mrs. Robins, and she made so muc... ...ld, up to anything. I can hardly believe he is the same—turned into a mere machine, with a moving spring of self-interest! I don’t believe he cares a ... ...y. The code to which she had been brought up taught that servants were the machines of their employer’s convenience. Good-nature occasioned much kindl... ...ple, and, with the aid of Richard and his crony, the carpenter, produced a machine in which no other power on earth could have prevailed on her to tru... ..., and there was a pause, while Dr. Spencer and the foreman advanced to the machine and ad- justed it. The two youths then led forward the little girl,...

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...ic wheel, and give it back as good as new. Round went the busily revolving machinery, kept in motion by the scissor-grinder’s foot, and wore away the ... ...stray cent; and the young foreigner himself, as he turned the crank of his machine, glanced upward to the arched window, expect- 242 The House of the... ...the picture to start forward. But, in so long a period of concealment, the machinery had been eaten through with rust; so that at Holgrave’s pressure,...

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...it has only stiffened the dolt; and dolt won’t do any longer; the military machine requires intelli- gence in all ranks now. Ay, the time for the Celt... ...al planet it bids wink to his unreceptive stars—acknowledging him the bare machine for those two to drive, no instrument of enjoyment. He lives by rea... ...losed to him if he has thrown too extreme a task of repairing on that bare machine of his. The sight of a broken-down plough is mournful, but the one ... ...sity upon me,’ remarked the young practitioner. ‘Outside the wheels of the machine, sir, we indulge our hallucination of immunity. I’ve been one in th... ...r their wealth. Not without pathos in the abstract perhaps do the wretched machines pursue their revolutions of their factory life, as incapable of co...

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...gently imaginative man knows very well that it is waste of labor to make a machine that will last ten years, because it will probably be superseded in... ...s, because it will probably be superseded in half that time by an improved machine answering the same purpose. He also knows that if some devil were t... ...reform would leave him as a workman is now left when he is superseded by a machine. He had therefore better do what he can to get the workman compensa... ...barrack ideal, or the fore- castle ideal, or any other substitution of the machinery of social organization for the end of it, which must always be th... ... very by tyrannical teachers that art becomes loathsome to the pupil. “The Machine” WHEN WE SET TO WORK at a Constitution to secure freedom for childr... ...ing into use as a substitute for Destiny, Fate, and Providence. It is “The Machine”: the machine that has no god in it. Why do governments do nothing ... ...g, though they are ready to throw bucketfuls of gold into the streets? The Machine will not let them. Always the Ma- chine. In short, they dont know h... ...hemselves the victims of a simi- lar misdirection, and consequently of The Machine. They do not want liberty. They have not been educated to want it. ... ... the other evils are automatically added to them. And yet we must have The Machine. It is only in unskilled hands under ignorant direction that machin...

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...e the wick o’ergrown. Hands did the work of engines then, But now some new machine Must hatch the eggs, and sew the seams, And make the cakes, I ween....

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... echo with the clanking of stupendous engines, and the whirl and rattle of machinery, the immortal mechanism of God’s own hand, the mind, is not forgo... ...surely cannot be allowed that those who labour day by day, sur rounded by machinery, shall be permitted to degenerate into machines themselves, but, ... ... noble lord is so condescending as to manage are so intoler ably bad, the machinery is so cumbrous, the parts so ill distributed, the company so ful... ...d, or apparent un derstanding of the general mind, in Parliament—with the machinery of Government and the legislature going round and round, and the ... ... with books, but by men, the business of whose life is with tools and with machinery. Let me endeavour to recall, as well as my memory will serve me, ... ...hteen pence a week, and the father of one of whom was cut to pieces by the machinery at which he worked, but not before he had himself founded the ins... ...ight instruct them when they came to be of an age to understand the mighty machines and engines which have made our country, England, pre eminent in t... ...objects of nature, whose workings we can tell of in figures, surrounded by machines that can be made to the thousandth part of an inch, acquiring ever... ...dens. They brought us accounts at the same time of some damage done to the machinery which was destined to supply the operative classes with employmen...

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...of pumps, road engines, steam-diggers, steam-ploughs, and steam- threshing machines; and I have it on Fleeming’s word that what he did was full of ing... ...d now with a touch more precise and dainty than a pianist’s. The taste for machinery was one that I could never share with him, and he had a certain b... ...tivity, now in London; now at Birkenhead, fitting out ships, inventing new machinery for new purposes, and dipping into electrical experiment; now in ... ...cough and cured his toothache.’ – ‘The whole of the paying out and lifting machinery must be designed and ordered in two or three days, and I am half ... ...and have been busy since I came here drawing, ordering, and putting up the machinery – uninterfered with, thank goodness, by any one. I own I like res... ...– off they went, slipping round and off the pulleys instead of driving the machinery. Tighten them – no use. More strength there – down with the lever... ...the African coast, can be spoken through. I am very glad I am here, for my machines are my own children and I look on their little failings with a par... ...lves to keep us hanging at the same spot: depth supposed about a mile. The machinery has behaved admirably. Oh! that the paying-out were over! The new... ...achinery has behaved admirably. Oh! that the paying-out were over! The new machinery there is but rough, meant for an experiment in shallow water, and...

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...tage, it would be well if we were to change our standpoint and examine our machinery at the point of application. A rock-drilling ma- chine may be exc... ...iticism which is science, than a brigand at large on a mountain has to the machinery of law and police, by which finally he will be hanged. Among such... ... end of the chain is apt to find the charity no more than a rather inhuman machine. Shining devotees there are, but able, courageous, and vigorous peo... ...le will say that all this is no more than a proposal to make man better by machinery, that you cannot reform the world by Board of T rade Regula- tion... ...with every precaution of publicity and with the most ingeniously impartial machine that could be in- vented, to select a Jury by lot, a Jury sufficien... ...d qualified by secret cults; it is a clogged and an ill-made and dishonest machine, but we have a dread, in part instinctive, in part, no doubt, the s... ...ere that process of examination may not take us; many more people can take machines to pieces than can put them together again. Mr. Grant Allen used t... ...or ever. T o write a fruitful book or improve a widely 183 H G Wells used machine is just as much paternity as begetting a son. The last temporary ra... ...-service enlistment levies, drawn from this general supply, and of all the machinery of communication, provisioning, and so forth. They will not be ne...

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... our observa- tion, except when the services of that particularly use- ful machine, a parish fire-engine, are required: then indeed all is bustle. Two... ...r last earthly journey, there is nothing like an omnibus. We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-str... ...and his hair standing on end as if he were on the stool of an electrifying machine in full operation. ‘People must know that, some time or other—withi... ...himed in O’Bleary. (He had once seen one, outside a tinman’s.) ‘Disgusting machines!’ rejoined Evenson, who extended his dislike to almost every creat... ...ed time. ‘Going this minute, sir, ’ was the reply;—and, accord- ingly, the machine trundled on for a couple of hundred yards, and then stopped again. ... ...ung ladies, each furnished with a towel, tripped up the steps of a bathing-machine. In went the horse, floundering about in the water; round turned th... ...chine. In went the horse, floundering about in the water; round turned the machine; down sat the driver; and presently out burst the young ladies afor... ...a-going in on this side!’ exclaimed Mrs. Tuggs, in a tone of horror. Three machines—three horses—three flounderings— three turnings round—three splash... ...s no end to the rivalry between them. Now, as Mr. Samuel Briggs was a mere machine, a sort of self-acting legal walking-stick; and as the party was kn...

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...to enchant, to create and to uncreate, he mixes these women and their dark machineries with the power of armies, with the agencies of kings, and the f... ...en beneficially. But in the case of for- eign languages, in attaining this machinery of literature, though anomalies even here do arise, and men there... ... It wanted, however, as yet, the principle of its vitality, in wanting the machinery of sylphs and gnomes, with which addition it was first published ... ...sed to a course of sea-bathing; and accordingly at the door of his bathing machine, whilst he stood shivering with cold, two stout fellows laid hold o... ...dipped.” What more he would have said is unknown to land or sea or bathing machines; for having reached the word 148 Biographical Essays dipped, he c... ...diet, and disturbed sleep, to the frail constitutions of children. By that machinery it is, and not by poison, that the majority qualify themselves fo...

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...ener- ously concealed from her knowledge the running-gear of the financial machine. Happy in finding her pleased with Bor- deaux, where his interests ... ...ot known what it is to be abandoned by the spirit which sustains our frail machine, and to hearken to that mysterious Voice denying all? Paul, his min...

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... our observa- tion, except when the services of that particularly use- ful machine, a parish fire-engine, are required: then indeed all is bustle. Two... ...r last earthly journey, there is nothing like an omnibus. We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-str...

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...wn weapon,’ he said gravely, handing it back. ‘I am better with the bigger machine, little maiden. But it’s a pretty toy. A wolf would laugh at it. Ar...

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...pleased though sad recognition of the esplanade, the pebbly beach, bathing machines and fishing boats, and pointing them out to her sons, who, on thei... ...han Miss Williams is. There had been a general smash of all the locomotive machinery on this side, and the wretched monster could do nothing but growl...

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...regard to the exten- sion and progression of the successive pieces of this machine of hers, ’tis no wonder if, on the contrary, that of children towar...

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...der into it, through the spout. Then he lighted it, and took this infernal machine into the next room; but he came back immediately and shut the door.... ... more closely than you do, or than I do myself. She knows what a faultless machine I have be- come, the machine of which she makes fun, the machine wh... ...achine of which she makes fun, the machine which is too well wound up, the machine which cannot get out of order—and she knows that I cannot make a mi... ... small disturbance in the imperfect and deli- cate functions of our living machinery, can turn the most light-hearted of men into a melancholy one, an... ... nourishing itself with difficulty on air, herbs, and flesh; it is a brute machine which is a prey to mala- dies, to malformations, to decay; it is br... ...commonplace mother, a human layer and 133 Selected Writings brood mare, a machine of flesh which procreates, without mental care save for her childre...

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...ousand pities Miss Elliot’s not with us. This one sees to nothing— she’s a machine.... Figurez-vous que la petite?...” And Darya Alexandrovna describe... ... the cart. “Oh! They all rode by here not long since, to look at a reaping machine. They’ll be home by now. And who will you be belonging to?...” “We’... ...e char-a-banc. They had gone out to look at the work- ing of a new reaping machine. When the carriage stopped, the party on horseback 72 Anna Karenin... ... topic, so as to draw the steward into talk. “Have you ever seen a reaping machine?” she said, ad- dressing Darya Alexandrovna. “We had just ridden ov... ...in her beautiful white hands covered with rings, and began showing how the machine worked. It was clear that she saw nothing would be understood from ... ...in ganz einfaches Ding,” and he began to explain the construc- tion of the machine. “It’s a pity it doesn’t bind too. I saw one at the Vienna exhibiti... ...d that she knew there was something charming in her disquisitions upon the machine that had been no- ticed by Sviazhsky. This new trait of girlish coq... ...easant. Sviazhsky began talking of Levin, describing his strange view that machinery is simply pernicious in its effects on Russian agriculture. “I ha... ...s M. Levin,” Vronsky said, smiling, “but most likely he has never seen the machines he condemns; or if he has seen and tried any, it must have been af...

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...lds has made an infinite num- 8 Balzac ber of heavy, weighty, and serious machines with great wheels, large chains, terrible notches, and frightfully... ... him conducted to a wretched little closet where Perrotte had arranged her machine in order to annoy him during the night. The tom-cats of the neighbo... ... which are naive beyond description. This is as true as the double chewing machine of a cow. Do not expect a man to be inno- cent after the manner of ...

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...r came in, everything stopped. He was like the scotch in the smooth, happy machinery of the home. And he was always aware of this fall of silence on h... ...he ceiling, and one could see above, over the fence of the top floor, some machinery; and right away overhead was the glass roof, and all light for th... ... She was an erect little body of forty. In that room were two round spiral machines on the bench under the window. Through the inner doorway was anoth... ...e window. Through the inner doorway was another longer room, with six more machines. A little group of girls, nicely dressed in white aprons, stood ta... ...’t bother.” “But I ought to know how to put needles in.” She ground at her machine all the while steadily. “There are many things you ought to know,” ... ...ought to know,” she re- plied. “Tell me, then, how to stick needles in the machine.” “Oh, the boy, what a nuisance he is! Why, this is how you do it.”... ...yes. He was not crying. Paul stood looking round, waiting. On the weighing machine a truck trundled slowly. Paul saw everything, except his fa- ther l... ...e never realised the male he was. He lighted his bicycle-lamp, bounced the machine on the barn floor to see that the tyres were sound, and but- toned ... .... The roads were greasy, so he had to let it go. He felt a pleasure as the machine plunged over the second, steeper drop in the hill. “Here goes!” he ...