A person named Crocket endeavoured to throw silk at Derby in the year 1702 ; but his machinery was imperfect

[N]obody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs, and in what marvellous places they find pasture.

As Sherma S. Vinograd points out that we move from “Arms that are braceleted and white and bare” near the table and shawl to the narrow streets inhabited by “lonely men in shirt-sleaves."

Qu. 8. Whether the Notions of absolute Time, absolute Place, and absolute Motion be not most abstractedly Metaphysical? Whether it be possible for us to measure, compute, or know them?