O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!

a multinumber dialling system

Oh, no ! it is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart — the revolutionary impulse is too swift to admit of a pause at the sight of individual misery — the tempest is too loud to hear the wailings of the wretch that perishes beneath its billows […]

In the Heat department we cannot allow ourselves to linger at the fine collection of thermometric and other instruments. Among them is a milligrade thermometer, in which the interval between the freezing and boiling points of water is divided into one thousand degrees; it obviates the use of fractions.