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28 July 1801
(a) Note (a) to p.124
afford much obstruction to the learned Baronet)
how much better a game to play would
he have had – if such had been my plan –
(I mean my project) in proving the impracticability of keeping trust
money or trust documents anything else in a chest
furnished with three such locks!
The question taken some A process like this takes no small portion of time to describe: it would
take less to might take ever so much less to practice.
Of the degree of time and trouble requisite
to the carrying on performing of this or that process set of operations
especially if it have include anything of the mechanical
cast, the measure afforded by the
number of words for employed with or without necessity, in the description of
it, would, though a natural measure enough, be, in
as is not always a correct many instances, a very fallacious one. If an Anatomist
were to set about description on describing
the mode in which the performance of a caprindo on the harpsi
pianoforte was performed produced, by a detail of the
differentmuscles or distinct bundles of muscular
figures, with the bones and so forth of the hand
and arm, by which the several notes strings
were made to sound – with or without a designation
of the respective shares possessed by the several
portions of inanimate matter (keys, jack, and
so forth) in the production of the effect, when
would he have done? – The time would
be finished, before he our historiographer had gone beyond got troubled the
finished the first note.
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