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" take a long, thin piece of whalebone ; hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,... "
Life of James Ferguson, F.R.S.: In a Brief Autobiographical Account, and ... - Page 25
by James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - 1867 - 503 pages
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Frank: A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1822 - 264 pages
...pursued her from room to room with the book, reading at every interval when he could be heard." " ' I thanked the gentleman, and told him, that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ..., Volume 1

James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...round your finger': it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very welL I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 6

Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...round your finger : it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia

George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...round your finger : it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...round your finger ; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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Biography of Self Taught Men

Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 336 pages
...it round your finger ; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 3; Volume 14

Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...round your finger ; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3

1833 - 444 pages
...it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of "whalebone ; but found...
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The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science ...

Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind tip a thread tied to the outside of the noop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that 1 understood...
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